41-97 words Flashcards
How a boundary will be maintained, how it will function, and what goods and people will be allowed to cross are important aspects of…
Administered boundary
When a boundary separates natural resources that may be used by both countries…
Allocation boundary dispute (resource dispute)
Coastal states have limited sovereignty for up to 24 nautical miles where they can enforce laws on customs, immigration, and sanitation.
Contagious zone
Borders that have checkpoints where a passport or visa are required to enter the country
Controlled boundary
Established by a legal document, such as a treaty, that divides one entity from another
Defined boundary
Drawn on a map by a cartographer to show the limits of a space
Delimited boundary
One identified by physical objects placed on the landscape.
Demarcated boundary
When two or more parties disagree over how to interpret the legal documents of maps that identify the boundary.
Definitional Boundary
Set territories that are part of a state, yet geographically separated from the main state by one or more countries.
Exclaves
Coastal states can explore, extract minerals, and manage natural resources up to 200 nautical miles.
Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
Water beyond any country’s EEZ that is open to all states
High seas
A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims by land.
Irredentism
Boundary disputes that center on where a boundary should be, how it is mapped, or demarcated
Location boundary disputes (territorial disputes)
Centers on how a boundary functions
Operational boundary dispute (functional dispute)
States, territories or parts of a state or territory the are completely surrounded by the territory of another state.
Political enclaves
A place located between two very different and contentious regions
Shatterbelt
These control nearly 30% of all oceans and seas and their EEZ is larger than their landmasses.
Small island developing state (SIDS)
This area extends up to 12 miles of sovereignty where a commercial vessels may pass but not commercial vessels may be challenged
Territorial sea
This was signed between 1973-1982 and defined four zones
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
A count of the population
Census
dispersing a group into several districts to prevent a majority
Cracking
using SPATIAL thinking techniques and tools to analyze elections and voting patterns
Electoral geography