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5597014517	reapportionment	Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people	0
5597017748	splitting	In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts	1
5597025279	majority-minority districts	A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.	2
5597034878	gerry meandering	Redrawing of districts boundaries to gain a political advantage	3
5597037875	boundary	invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory	4
5597054905	geometric boundary	Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.	5
5597063927	physical-political boundaries	political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape	6
5597072290	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.	7
5597079189	critical geopolitics	Process by which geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians	8
5597083911	unilateralism	World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision-making process	9
5597091299	supranational organization	Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives.	10
5597102696	deterritorialization	The movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states.	11
5597110375	reterritorialization	With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own	12
5597118752	EU UN NATO NAFTA		13
5597125248	balance of power	distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong	14
5597128179	terrorism	Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population	15
5597131337	isis	Islamic State of Iraq and Syria	16
5597136242	Al-Qaeda	A network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001	17