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| 121600935 | peace of westphalia | peace negotiated in 1648 to end 30 years war Europes most destructive struggle over religion | |
| 121600936 | state | a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government | |
| 121600937 | heartland theory | a geopolitical hypothesis by halford mackinder during the first 2 decades of the 20th century that any political power based in the heart of eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world and the vast heartland to the east | |
| 121600938 | gerrymandering boundary | redistricting for advantage or the practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible | |
| 121600939 | geometric boundary | political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or arc | |
| 121600940 | federal | a political territory system wherein a central government represents various entities within a nation state where they all have common interests (defense, foreign affairs) yet retain their own identities and to have their own laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres | |
| 121600941 | critical geopolitics | processes by which geopoliticans deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians | |
| 121600942 | core | processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology, generate more wealth than periphery in the world economy | |
| 121600943 | colonialism | rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place | |
| 121600944 | centripetal | forces that tend to unify a country | |
| 121600945 | centrifugal | forces that tend to divide a country | |
| 121600946 | capitalism | economic model where in people corporation and states produce good and exchange them on the world market with the goal of achieving profit | |
| 121600947 | ability | in the context of political power the capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic economic and militaristic means | |
| 121600948 | democracy | gov based on the principle that the people and the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over that happens within the state | |
| 121600949 | devolution | the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government | |
| 121600950 | majority-minority districts | in the context of determining representative districts the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority | |
| 121600951 | mercantilism | protectionist policy of european states during the 16th century-18th century that promoted a states economic position in the contest with other countries | |
| 121600952 | multinational state | state with more that one nation within its borders | |
| 121600953 | multistate nation | nation that stretches across borders and across states | |
| 121600954 | nation | legally all citizens of a state | |
| 121600955 | nation-state | a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereign and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single united nation | |
| 121600956 | periphery | processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; and generate less wealth than core processes in the world economy | |
| 121600957 | physical-political boundary | political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape | |
| 121600958 | political geography | nature and implication on the evolving spatial organization of political governance and form political practice on the earth's surface | |
| 121600959 | reapportionment | process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people | |
| 121600960 | semiperiphery | places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery | |
| 121600961 | stateless nation | nation that does not have a state | |
| 121600962 | supranational organization | a venture involving 3 or more nation-states involving formal political economic and or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives | |
| 121600963 | territorial integrity | the right of a state to defend soverign territory against incurrsion from other states | |
| 121600964 | territorial representation | system where in each representative is elected from a territorially defined district | |
| 121600965 | territoriality | a country's or more local community's sens of property attachment toward its territory as expressed by its determination to keep its inviolable and strongly defended | |
| 121600966 | unilateralism | world order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather that joining the political decision making process | |
| 121600967 | unitary | a nation state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state |
