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| 163141846 | Political geography | The spatial analysis of political phenomena and processes. | |
| 163141847 | Nation | a people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base, and history | |
| 163141848 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | |
| 163141849 | State | an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs | |
| 163141850 | Microstate | A state or territory that is small in both size and population. | |
| 163141851 | Nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | |
| 163141852 | Sovereignty | government free from external control | |
| 163141853 | Boundary | vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface | |
| 163141854 | Boundary definition | The written legal description of a boundary between two countries or territories. | |
| 163141855 | Boundary delimitation | The translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation. | |
| 163141856 | Boundary demarcation | The actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers. | |
| 163141857 | Enclaves | countries surrounded or almost surrounded by another country. | |
| 163141858 | Exclaves | A bounded (nonisland) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state. | |
| 163141859 | Geometric boundary | Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines. | |
| 163141860 | Physical-political boundary | boundary defined by a physical land mark like a river or a lake | |
| 163141861 | Cultural-political boundary | A boundary line established for cultural breaks such as religion or faith | |
| 163141862 | Antecedent boundary | a boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area... | |
| 163141863 | Subsequent boundary | A political boundary that developed contemporaneously with the evolution of the major elements of the cultural landscape through which it passes. | |
| 163141864 | Superimposed boundary | A political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. Usually ignores pre-existing cultural-spatial patterns, such as the border that now divides North and South Korea. | |
| 163141865 | Relict boundary | A political boundary that has ceased to function but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape. | |
| 163141866 | Geopolitics | the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | |
| 163141867 | Organic theory | The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include all stages of life. | |
| 163141868 | Heartland theory | 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. | |
| 163141869 | Rimland theory | Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest. | |
| 163141870 | Centrifugal force | Forces that tend to divide a country. | |
| 163141871 | Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | |
| 163141872 | Colonialism | exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one | |
| 163141873 | Core area | the portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus. | |
| 163141874 | Multicore area | A state that possesses more than one core or dominant region, be it economic, political or cultural. | |
| 163141875 | Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. | |
| 163141876 | Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | |
| 163141877 | Forward capital | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory. | |
| 163141878 | Electoral geography | The study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections. | |
| 163141879 | Gerrymander | divide unfairly and to one's advantage | |
| 163141880 | Supranationalism | Term applied to associations created by three or more states for their mutual benefit and achievement of shared objectives | |
| 163141881 | Law of the sea | Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources. | |
| 163141882 | Truman proclamation | A proclamation that claimed all of the natural resources on the continental shelf for the United States. | |
| 163141883 | Median-line principle | lines made to distribute water ways when states are within 200 miles of each other | |
| 163141884 | International sanctions | Actions taken by countries against others for political reasons, either unilaterally or multilaterally. | |
| 163141885 | Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) | Area in which resources found up to 200 nautical miles offshore belong exclusively to the geographically bordering country | |
| 163141886 | Globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale | |
| 163141887 | Devolution | the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government | |
| 163141888 | New World Order | 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. | |
| 163141889 | Ethnonationalism | When ethnic groups see themselves as an individual nation and belive that they deserve their own state. | |
| 163141890 | Gateway state | 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. |
