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| 288760568 | political geography | study of the political organization of the world | |
| 288760569 | state | politically organized territory with defined territory, permanent population, and government | |
| 288760570 | territoriality | the attempt by an individual or group to delimit and assert control over a geographic area | |
| 288760571 | sovereignty | having the last say (politically and militarily) over a territory, control | |
| 288760572 | territorial integrity | the right of a state to defend its sovereign territory against other states | |
| 288760573 | Peace of Westphalia | treaty that ended the 30 Years War in Europe (1648) and marks the beginning of the modern state | |
| 288760574 | mercantilism | a competitive system based on accumulation of wealth through plunder, colonization and the protection of home industries and markets - associated with 16th to 18th Century Europe | |
| 288760575 | nation | culturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and have political goals | |
| 288760576 | nation-state | politically organized area in which nation and state share the same space | |
| 288760577 | democracy | the idea that the people have the ultimate say over what happens within the state | |
| 288760578 | multinational state | state with more than one nation within its borders | |
| 288760579 | multistate nation | when a nation stretches across borders and states | |
| 288760580 | stateless nation | a nation that does not have a state | |
| 288760581 | colonialism | rule by an autonomous power over an alien people and place - associated with Europe | |
| 288760582 | scale | representation of real world phenomena at a certain level of reduction or generalization - figuratively, how "zoomed in" you are | |
| 288760583 | capitalism | economic model within which people, corporations and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market for profit | |
| 288760584 | commodification | placing a price on a good and then buying, selling and trading the good | |
| 288760585 | core | as defined by Wallerstein's World Systems Theory, places and process that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, more technology and generate more wealth in the world economy | |
| 288760586 | periphery | as defined by Wallerstein's World Systems Theory, places and processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries and less technology and generate less wealth in the world economy | |
| 288760587 | semi-periphery | as defined by Wallerstein's World Systems Theory, places where both core and periphery processes | |
| 288760588 | centripetal | forces within the state that unify the people | |
| 288760589 | centrifugal | forces within the state that divide the people | |
| 288760590 | unitary | highly centralized governments with the capital city as the focus of power | |
| 288760591 | federal | organizing territory (and government power) into regions, substates (state, provinces or cantons) | |
| 288760592 | devolution | reduction of power of a central government - a continuum ranging from decentralization to secession | |
| 288760593 | territorial representation | political representatives are elected from territorially defined districts | |
| 288760594 | reapportionment | decennial process by which seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are distributed, based on U.S. Census results | |
| 288760595 | splitting | diluting racial or ethnic minority voters by distributing them among political districts to ensure a white majority in each district | |
| 288760596 | majority-minority districts | packed political districts where a majority of the population is from a racial or ethnic minority | |
| 288760597 | gerrymandering | drawing boundaries of political districts in such a way that one political party has an unfair advantage | |
| 288760598 | boundary | between states - a vertical plane that cuts through subsoil and extends into airspace | |
| 288760599 | geometric boundary | boundary drawn using a grid system such as latitude and longitude | |
| 288760600 | physical-political boundary | boundaries that follow an agreed upon physical feature | |
| 288760601 | heartland theory | MacKinder's geopolitical theory - he said whoever controlled the Eurasian "heartland" would control the world | |
| 288760602 | critical geopolitics | people construct ideas about places that have the power to influence political behavior and public policy (for example, President Reagan called the Soviet Union "The Evil Empire") | |
| 288760603 | unilateralism | world order in which one state is in a position of dominance, with others following | |
| 288760604 | supranational organization | 3 or more states cooperating politically, economically, etc. to promote shared objectives - examples United Nations, European Union |
