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| 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 | ||
| an overall set of values widely shared within a society | ||
| a politically organized body of people under a single government | ||
| A country who's population share a common identity. | ||
| the way something is with respect to its main attributes | ||
| A state or territory that is small in both size and population. | ||
| love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | ||
| government free from external control | ||
| the greatest possible degree of something | ||
| The written legal description of a boundary between two countries or territories. | ||
| The translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation. | ||
| The actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers. | ||
| countries surrounded or almost surrounded by another country. | ||
| A bounded (nonisland) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state. | ||
| Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines. | ||
| boundary defined by a physical land mark like a river or a lake | ||
| boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity | ||
| a boundary that existed beforethe cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area... | ||
| a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes... | ||
| a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)... | ||
| A political boundary that has ceased to function but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape. | ||
| the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | ||
| The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include all stages of life. | ||
| Hypothesis proposed by Halford MacKinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. | ||
| Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest. | ||
| a force that divides people and countries | ||
| An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | ||
| exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one | ||
| the portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus. | ||
| A state that possesses more than one core or dominant region, be it economic, political or cultural. | ||
| An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. | ||
| An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | ||
| capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, it confirms the states determination to maintain its presence in the region in contention. | ||
| The study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections. | ||
| an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | ||
| a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives | ||
| Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources. | ||
| Policy of the United States With Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf | ||
| lines made to distribute water ways when states are within 200 miles of each other | ||
| Actions taken by countries against others for political reasons, either unilaterally or multilaterally. | ||
| area in which resources found up to 200 nautical miles offshore belong exclusively to the geographically bordering country | ||
| growth to a global or worldwide scale | ||
| the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | ||
| A description of the international system resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union in which the balance of nuclear terror theoretically no longer determined the destinies of states. | ||
| The identification and loyalty a person may feel for his or her nation. | ||
| A state, by virtue of its border location between geopolitical power cores, that absorbs and assimilates cultures and traditions of its neighbors without being dominated by them. |
