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55012216Political GeographyStudy of the political organization of the world
55012217Statepolitically organized territory and a population defined territory and government
55012218Territorality"the attempt by an individual or group to affect,influence, or control people phenomennon relationships, by delimiting& asserting control over geographic area
55012219SovereigntyRight of a state to deffend sovern territory againts another state
55012220Territorial IntergrityRight of a state to defend sovergn territory againts incurrsion from other states
55012221Peace of WestphalaTreaties constituted this peace and concluded Europe's most destructuve internal struggle over religion
55012222MercantilismGeneral sense associated with the promotion of commercialism trade, Protectioinost policy of European states in 16th&18th century
55012223NationCulturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and government
55012224Nation-statePolitically organized area nation and state occupy the same plae
55012225DemocracyIdea that people, natin, have ultimate say over what happens within the state
55012226Multinational stateOne or more the one nation in a border
55012227Multistate nationNation stretches across borders and scorss state
55012228Stateless nationAnother complication that arises from the lack of fit between nations and state is that some nations do not have a state
55012229ColonialismImperial powers exercised ruthless control over their domains& organized them for maximum economic expolitation
55012230CapitalismMeans that in the world economy people, corperations, states produce goods and exchange them on a world market with the goal of schieving profit
55012231CommodificationThe process of placing a price on goods then buying selling trading goods
55012232CoreProcess incorporate higher levels of educatin and salaries and technology
55012233PeripheryIncorporates lower slaries and less technology
55012234Semi-peripheryCore and periphery processes are both occuring
55012235AbilityContext of political power infulene each other states ar achieve its goals through diplomatic econmic& militaristic
55012236CentripetalForces that instate unify people
55012237CentrifugalForces divide
55012238Federal organizationstate territory into region, substates, province or state
55012239DevoltuionMovement of power from the central government to regional goernments within state
55012240Territoral respirationHouse of Representitives elected from a territorially defines district
55012241Splittingten districts, majority white
55012242Majority-minorityPacked districts majority of population from minority
55012243Gerrymandering"redistricting for advantage:
55012244BoundryVertical plane cuts through rocks below airspace above
55012245Geometrical Boundriesdrawn using grid systems as latitude or longtitude township, range, political
55012246Physical Polticalboundries agreed upon feature in physical geographic landscape
55012247Heartland TheoryTheory was little to foretell the rise of a super power in the heartland
55012248Critical GeopoliticsIntellectuals of state craft with constant ideas about place, and ideas that reinforcce political behaviors
55012249UnilateralismU.S. position of a hard power dominance with allies rather the U.S, joining
55012250Supranational OgranizationSeperate enitity compound of three or more sates forge an association form an adminisrtative for mutual benefit

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