Chapter 8 Political Geo Flashcards
Balance of power
Big nations have equal power
Berlin conference
Regulation of European colonization in Africa
Boundary
A line dividing a state
Capital
Big city of a state
City state
City with farmland surrounding for protection
Colonialism
Creation of new state while still connected to other state
Colony
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
Compact state
Circular state with capital in middle
Democratization
the action of making something accessible to everyone
Devolution
the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration
Elongated state
Long narrow territory
Fragmented state
State split by physical features
Federal state
State under rule of many govs
Frontier
Line separating countries
High seas
the open ocean, especially that not within any country’s jurisdiction.
Gerry mander
Manipulate borders in favors of your beliefs
Imperialism
Expanding countries power by military force
Irredentism
Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to reclaim and reoccupy a land that the movement’s members consider to be a “lost” territory from their nation’s past
Law of the sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty, is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place between 1973 and 1982
Land locked
Entirely surrounded by land
Micro state
State that has small area or population
Perforated state
State that is generally compact but have a wing or protruding point
Prorupted state
State that surrounds another
Super national organization
Organization with many states coneected to support (UN)
Terrorism
Act of violence against ordinary people
Unitary state
State with one central gov
