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| 6620398168 | Frontier | geographic zone where no state exercises power | 0 | |
| 6620398169 | State | power to control what happens within their borders. Syn: countries | 1 | |
| 6620398170 | Sovereignty | ability of the state to carry out actions or policies within its borders independently from interference either from the inside or the outside. | 2 | |
| 6620398171 | Territoriality | efforts to control pieces of the Earth's surface for political and social ends. | 3 | |
| 6620398172 | Centrifugal | destabilize the government and encourage the country to fall apart | 4 | |
| 6620398173 | Centripetal | bind together the people of a state, giving it strength | 5 | |
| 6620398174 | Micro State | states small in population and land area. Ex: Vatican, Andorra, Liechtenstein | 6 | |
| 6620398175 | Exclusive Economic Zone | a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources stretching 200 nautical miles from the coast. The country that controls the EEZ has rights to the fishing, whaling, etc., as well as the raw material resources | 7 | |
| 6620398176 | Irredentism | a policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a country aimed at a group of its nationals living in a neighboring country. | 8 | |
| 6620398177 | Natural boundary | natural features that can easily be seen on the Earth's surface and are relatively unchanging. Ex: Rio Grande (US/Mexico) | 9 | |
| 6620398178 | Antecedent Boundary | existed before the cultural landscape emerged | 10 | |
| 6620398179 | Subsequent Boundary | developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape | 11 | |
| 6620398180 | Superimposed boundary | placed by powerful outsiders on a developed landscape, usually ignores pre-existing cultural spatial patterns | 12 | |
| 6620398181 | Relic boundary | ceased to function, but its imprint can still be detected on the cultural landscape | 13 | |
| 6620398182 | Positional/locational dispute | definition is not in dispute, but the interpretation is. Allows mapmakers to delimit boundaries in different ways. | 14 | |
| 6620398183 | Functional/operational dispute | neighboring states cannot agree on policies that apply in a border area. Ex: U.S. and Mexico and transport of people and goods across the border. | 15 | |
| 6620398184 | Resource dispute | Disagreement over the control or use of shared resources. | 16 | |
| 6620398185 | Territorial dispute | conflicts that arise over the ownership of a region, usually around mutual borders. Ex: War between Mexico and US | 17 | |
| 6620398186 | Ethnic dispute | An ethnic conflict is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism or fight over natural resources. Ethnic conflict often includes genocide. It can also be caused by boundary disputes | 18 | |
| 6620398187 | Religious dispute | intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices, usually resulting in war, i.e. Israel-Palestine, Roman Takeovers, Muslim conquests, and the Crusades | 19 | |
| 6620398188 | Self-determination | a principle that explains that all people have the right to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development. | 20 | |
| 6620398189 | Nation-state | a state whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity. Ex: Japan, Portugal, Armenia | 21 | |
| 6620398190 | Colonialism | attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | 22 | |
| 6620398191 | Imperialism | Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. | 23 | |
| 6620398192 | Manifest destiny | the political doctrine or belief held by the United States of America, particularly during its expansion, that the nation was destined to expand toward the west | 24 | |
| 6620398193 | Soviet Union | A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. Was the largest multinational country in the world. | 25 | |
| 6620398194 | Devolution | transfer of important powers from central governments to sub-governments | 26 | |
| 6620398195 | Supranationalism | cooperating groups of nations that operate on either a regional or international level | 27 | |
| 6620398196 | Iron curtain | an imaginary boundary that separated the Soviet east from the democratic west in Europe after WWII. | 28 | |
| 6620398197 | Gerrymandering | redraw boundaries to improve the chances of its supporters to win seats | 29 |
