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| 9779017936 | Relic Boundary | A boundary no longer observed but that still affects the present day area (ex) border between West and East Germany in Berlin | 0 | |
| 9779019837 | Buffer state | A small neutral state between two rival powers | 1 | |
| 9779042407 | Federal system | A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments | 2 | |
| 9779045453 | Economic policy that forces colonies to sell their raw materials for low prices and then buy them back from the mother country for high prices. Also colonies cannot create their own goods( no factories) or buy goods from another country without the risk of war | Mercantilism | 3 | |
| 9779138854 | A political unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict | Cultural shatter belt | 4 | |
| 9780754022 | ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnicity homogenous region | 5 | |
| 9780754023 | Sovereignty | The concept that each state's government has the final say within its border. | 6 | |
| 9780754024 | Geopolitics | The study of the interplay between international political relations and the territorial/environmental context in which they occur | 7 | |
| 9780754025 | territorial integrity | the right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states | 8 | |
| 9780754026 | Heartland/Rimland theory | Nicolas spykmans theory that the domination of the costal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest | 9 | |
| 9780754027 | Irredentism | The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | 10 | |
| 9780754028 | unitary system | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 11 | |
| 9780754029 | Peace of Westphalia | Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years' War Europe's most destructive internal struggle over religion. The treaties contained new language recognizing statehood and nationhood. | 12 | |
| 9780754030 | plural society | A society in which several ethnic groupings coexist | 13 | |
| 9780754031 | Ratzel's organic theory | Believed that nations must expand their land base to maintain vibrancy | 14 | |
| 9780754032 | Blakanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | 15 | |
| 9780754033 | social distance | The distance between different groups of society and is opposed to locational distance. The notion includes all differences such as social clas, race and ethnicity or sexuality | 16 | |
| 9780754034 | Superimposed Boundaries | A political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape | 17 | |
| 9780754035 | Delimitation | Phase in which the definition of a boundary is marked on an official cartographic representation. | 18 | |
| 9780754036 | Unilateralism | World order in which one states position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making process | 19 |
