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| 16007622 | Political Geography | A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and immplications fo the evolving spatial organization of politcal governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface | |
| 16007623 | State | A politically organized territory tha is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community | |
| 16007624 | Territoriality | In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of propertyand attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended | |
| 16007625 | Sovereignty | A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independant states | |
| 16007626 | Territorial Integrity | The right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states | |
| 16007627 | Mercantilism | A protectionist policy of European states during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries | |
| 16007628 | Peace of Westphalia | Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years' War | |
| 16007629 | Nation | tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, etc. | |
| 16007630 | Nation-State | a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single united nation | |
| 16007631 | Democracy | Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state | |
| 16007632 | Multinational State | State with mroe than one nation within its borders | |
| 16007633 | Multistate Nation | Nation that stetches across borders and across states | |
| 16007634 | Stateless Nation | Nation that doe not have a state | |
| 16007635 | Colonialism | Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own governemnt in charge and either moving its own people into the place or briinging in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land | |
| 16007636 | Scale | representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction | |
| 16007637 | Capitalism | economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit | |
| 16007638 | Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. | |
| 16007639 | Core | Processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology | |
| 16007640 | Periphery | Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology | |
| 16007641 | Semi-Periphery | Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring | |
| 16007642 | Ability | The capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means | |
| 16007643 | Centripetal | Forces that tend to unify a country | |
| 16007644 | Centrifugal | Forces that tend to divide a country | |
| 16007645 | Unitary | A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state | |
| 16007646 | Federal | A political territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests | |
| 16007647 | Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government | |
| 16007648 | Territorial Representation | System wherein each representative is elected from a territoriality defined district | |
| 16007649 | Reapportionment | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts | |
| 16007650 | Majority-Minority Districts | The process by which a majority of the population is from the minority | |
| 16007651 | Splitting | In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therin ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts | |
| 16007652 | Gerrymandering | Redistricting for advantage, or the practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party an electoral majority | |
| 16007653 | Boundary | Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface | |
| 16007654 | Geometric Boundary | Political boundary defined as a straight line or arc | |
| 16007655 | Physical-political boundaries | boundary defined by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape | |
| 16007656 | Heartland Theory | Any political power bases in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strenght to enentually dominate the world | |
| 16007657 | Critical Geopolotics | Process by which geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians | |
| 16007658 | Unilateralism | world order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making processes | |
| 16007659 | Supranational Organization | a venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives |
