Unit 5 Vocab - A. E. Rodriguez

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.