L Chapter 8 Vocabulary

Question 1

Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries

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Balance of power

Question 2

Invisible line that marks the extent of a states territory

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Boundary

Question 3

Forces that tend to divide a country – such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences

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Centrifugal

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Forces that tend to unify a country – such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith

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Centripetal

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A sovereign state comprising A city and its immediate hinterland (an area surrounding a town or port and served by it)

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City state

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Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political economic and cultural principles and another territory

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Colonialism

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A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent

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Colony

Question 8

The process through which something is given monetary value; when something not previously regarded as an object to be bought and sold become something that has a value and can be traded in a market economy

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Commodification

Question 9

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly

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Compact state

Question 10

Process to incorporate higher levels of education and higher salaries and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery process in the world economy

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Core

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The process whereby religions with in a state to demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government

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Devolution

Question 12

A state with a long narrow shape

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Elongated state

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And internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to the units of local government

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Federal state

Question 14

Symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons; sometimes used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state

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Forwardcapital

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A state that include several discontinuous pieces of territory

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Fragmented state

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Is zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control

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Frontier

Question 17

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

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Gerrymandering

Question 18

Theory proposed by Halford Mackinder and early 20th century that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world; Mackinder further proposed that since Eastern Europe controlled access to the Eurasian interior it’s a ruler would command the vast “heartland” to the east

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Heartland theory

Question 19

Leadership or dominance especially by one Country or social group over others

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Hegemony

Question 20

Control of territory already occupied and organized by indigenous Society

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Imperialism

Question 21

A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea

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Landlocked state

Question 22

A state that encompasses a very small land area

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Microstate

Question 23

Peace negotiated and 1648 to enter the 30 years war, Europe’s most destructive internal struggle over religion; contains a new language, recognizing statehood, and nationhood,clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security

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Peace of West Phalia

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A state that completely surrounds another one

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Perforated state

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Process that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and that’s it Melody; and guarantee less well than core processes in the world economy

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Periphery

Question 26

And otherwise compact state with a large projection extension

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Prorupted state

Question 27

Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people

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Reapportionment

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Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states

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Sovereignty

Question 29

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by and established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs

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State

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A venture involving three or more nationstates involving formal political, economic, and or cultural corporation to promote shared objectives;The United Nations, the European Union, NATO examples

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Supranational organization

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A states sense of property and attachment towards its territory, as expressed in its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended

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Territorial integrity

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System where in each representative is elected from a territorial defined district

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Territorial representation

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World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with Ally’s following rather then joining the political decision making process

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Unilateralism

Question 34

And internal Organization of a state that place is most power in the hands of central government officials

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Unitary state