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| 45252791 | Political Geography | the subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface | |
| 45252792 | state | a politically organized body of people under a single government | |
| 45252793 | Territoriality | In political geopgrpahy,a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended. | |
| 45252794 | Sovereignty | A principle of interantional relations that holds that final authoiry over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legimate rulers of independent states | |
| 45252795 | Peace of Westphalia | the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 | |
| 45252796 | mercantalism | A protectionist policy of European states during 16th-18th century that promoted a state's economic position in the conest with other countries with the acquisition of gold and silver. | |
| 45252797 | Nation | a term encompassing all the citizens in the sate. Most defenitions now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of a language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within a few states. | |
| 45252798 | Nation-state | A recognized member of the modern states system possesing formal soveriegnty and occupi9ed by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. | |
| 45252799 | democracy | government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state. | |
| 45252800 | Multinational state | State with one of mroe nation within its borders | |
| 45252801 | Multistate nation | Nationt he stretches across borders and across states | |
| 45252802 | Stateless nation | nation that does not have a state | |
| 45252803 | Colonialism | Rule by an autonomous power over a subordinateand alien people and place. | |
| 45252804 | Scale | Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. | |
| 45252805 | Capitalism | Economic model wherein people, corporations , and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit | |
| 45252806 | Commodification | The process through with which something is given monetary value. | |
| 45252807 | Core | Process that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology. | |
| 45252808 | Periphery | Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology. | |
| 45252809 | Semiperiphery | Places where both core and periphery processes are both occuring | |
| 45252810 | Ability | in the context of politcal power, the capacity of a state to influence other staes or achieve goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means. | |
| 45252811 | Centripetal | Forces that tend to unify a country-- such as wide spread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith | |
| 45252812 | Centrifugal | Forces that tend to divide a county | |
| 45252813 | Unitary | A nation-state that has centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts fo the state. | |
| 45252814 | Federal | A political territorial system wherein a central govenment represents the various entities within a nation state whrere they all have common interests | |
| 45252815 | Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central govenment | |
| 45252816 | Territorial representation | System wherein each representativeis elected from a territorially defined district | |
| 45252817 | Reapportionment | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts | |
| 45252818 | Splitting | The processn by thich the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts. |
