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| 8160381295 | Institutions | Complex social organizations such as governments, economies, and education systems | 0 | |
| 8160381296 | Integration | Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other. | 1 | |
| 8160381297 | Internal Boundaries | boundaries that divide the interiors of a country into sections | 2 | |
| 8160381298 | Irredentism | The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state. | 3 | |
| 8160381299 | Landlocked States | state surrounded by other land with no direct outlet to the sea | 4 | |
| 8160381300 | Market Economy | Economic decisions are made by individuals or the open market. | 5 | |
| 8160381301 | Marketization | The state's recreation of a market in which property, labor, goods, and services can all function in a competitive environment to determine their value. | 6 | |
| 8160381302 | Median-Line Principle | water boundaries are set in the middle of the water | 7 | |
| 8160381303 | Microstate | A state or territory that is small in both size and population. | 8 | |
| 8160381304 | Minority Districting | rearranging districts to allow a minority representative to be elected | 9 | |
| 8160381305 | Majority Districting | area in which the majority of the constituents in the district are racial or ethnic minorities. used to sway electoral votes | 10 | |
| 8160381306 | Mixed Economy | A combination of a command and market economy | 11 | |
| 8160381307 | Monetary Policy | Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and interest rates. | 12 | |
| 8160381308 | Multicore State | a state that has more than one dominant region in terms of economics or politics | 13 | |
| 8160381309 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country | 14 | |
| 8160381310 | Nation-State | A country who's population share a common identity. | 15 | |
| 8160381311 | Perforated States | a state that completely surrounds another | 16 | |
| 8160381312 | Physical Boundary | boundary defined by a physical land mark like a river or a lake | 17 | |
| 8160381313 | Political Culture | the collection of political beliefs, values, practices, and institutions that the governments is based on | 18 | |
| 8160381314 | Politicization of Religion | the use of religious principles to promote political ends or vice versa | 19 | |
| 8160381315 | Political Geography | Study of the political organization of the planet | 20 | |
| 8160381316 | Primate City | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. | 21 | |
| 8160381317 | Privatization | To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control. | 22 | |
| 8160381318 | Friedrich Ratzel | father of modern political geography, he theorized that the state compares to a living biological organism | 23 | |
| 8160381319 | Relative Location | The position of a place in relation to another place | 24 | |
| 8160381320 | Rimland Theory | Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest. | 25 | |
| 8160381321 | Security Council | Five permanent members( US, UK, France, China, Russia) with veto power in the UN. Promised to carry out UN decisions with their own forces. | 26 | |
| 8160381322 | Separatist Movement | refers to the social movements for a particular group of people to separate from a dominant political institution under which they suffer | 27 | |
| 8160381323 | Shatter Belts | zones of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups who find refuge in the isolation created by rough terrain | 28 | |
| 8160381324 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. | 29 | |
| 8160381325 | Spatial Force | Spatially, devolutionary events most often occur on the margins of the state. Increases with distance | 30 | |
| 8160381326 | Stateless Nation | A nation that is not represented by a state. | 31 | |
| 8160381327 | State | A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by the international community. | 32 | |
| 8160381328 | Supranational Organization | Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives. | 33 | |
| 8160381329 | Territorial Morphology | describes the shapes, sizes, and relative locations of states | 34 | |
| 8160381330 | Territoriality | efforts to control pieces of the earth's surface for political and social ends | 35 | |
| 8160381331 | Unitary State | A state in which most political power exists at the national level, with limited local authority. | 36 | |
| 8160381332 | Three pillars | Informal term denoting the main areas in which the EU has worked since the Maastricht Treaty.(Economy, Justice, foreign/security policy) | 37 | |
| 8160381333 | "Third Wave" Of Democratization | refers to the third major surge of democracy in history; characterized by the defeat of dictatorial or totalitarian rulers from South America to Eastern Europe to some parts of Africa | 38 | |
| 8160381334 | politics | All about power;who, how, and challenges to keep | 39 | |
| 8160381335 | Nation | A group of people that is bound together by a common political identity | 40 | |
| 8160381336 | Prorupted states | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 41 |
