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Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

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Annexation

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What is the political situation for Antarctica? Know who (if anyone owns / claims it or part of it).

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Antarctica

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Means “apartness;” racial segregation in South Africa.

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Apartheid

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

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Balkanization

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Know the three types of borders: 1. geometric, 2. physical, and 3. cultural.

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Border landscape

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A disagreement between neighboring states over policies to be applied to their common border; often induced by differing customs regulations, movement of nomadic groups, or illegal immigration or emigration.

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Boundary disputes or functional dispute

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Antecedent, subsequent, consequent, superimposed, relic.

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Boundary Types

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One drawn across an area before it is well populated, that is, before most of the cultural landscape features were put in place.

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Antecedent

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Boundary drawn after the development of the cultural landscape.

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Subsequent

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A type of a subsequent boundary , also called an ethnographic, where the border drawn is to accommodate existing religious, linguistic, ethnic, or economic differences between countries.

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Consequent

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A boundary forced on existing cultural landscapes, a country, or a people by a conquering or colonizing power that is unconcerned about preexisting cultural patterns.

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Superimposed

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A former boundary line that no longer functions as such is still marked by some landscape features or differences on the two sides.

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Relic

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The translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty (the definition) into an official cartographic representation.

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Delimitation

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The actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers.

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Demarcation

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Those boundaries based on recognizable physiologic features, i.e. mountains, rivers, and lakes.

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Natural/physical

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When the boundary coincides with differences in ethnicity, especially language and religion.

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Ethnographic/cultural

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Political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or an arc.

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Geometric

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An independent but small and weak country lying between two powerful countries.

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Buffer state

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Forces within a state that divide people.

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Centrifugal

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Forces within a state that unify people

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Centripetal

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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.

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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 in another territory.

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Colonialism

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A group of states united for a common purpose.

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Confederation

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What were the consequences of the conference for the continent of Africa?

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Conference of Berlin, 1884

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Regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.

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Core Regions

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Regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.

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Periphery Regions

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The acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.

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Decolonization

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The transfer of certain powers from the state central government to separate political subdivisions within the state’s territory.

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Devolution

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If one country in a region chose or was forced to accept a communist political and economic system, then neighboring countries would be irresistibly susceptible to falling to communism.

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Domino Theory

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The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

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DMZ

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Established in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a zone of exploration extending 200 nautical miles (370 km) seaward from a coastal state that has exclusive mineral and fishing rights over it.

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EEZ (exclusive economic zone)

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The study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections.

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Electoral geography

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A piece of territory surrounded by, but not par t of, a country.

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Enclave

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A piece of national territory separated from the main body of a country by the territory of another country.

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Exclave

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A small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture.

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Ethnic enclave

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An economic association established in 1957 by a number of Western European countries to promote free trade among members; often called the Common Market.

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European Union

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An internal organization of a state that allocated most powers to units of local government.

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Federal State

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A capital city deliberately sited in a state’s frontier zone.

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Forward-Thrust Capital

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The branch of political geography treating national power, foreign policy, and international relations as influences by geographic considerations of location, space, resources, and demography.

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Geopolitics

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To redraw voting district boundaries in such a way as to give one political party maximum electoral advantage and to reduce that of another party, to fragment voting blocks, or to achieve other nondemocratic objectives.

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Gerrymandering

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The belief of Halford MacKinder that the interior of Eurasia provided a likely base for world conquest.

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Heartland Theory

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The belief of Nicholas Spykman that domination of coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide a base for world conquest.

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Rimland Theory

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Group that includes two or more states seeking political and /or economic cooperation with each other.

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International organization

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Who coined the phrase and which area is included within the iron curtain?

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Iron Curtain

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The assertion by the government of a country that has a minority living outside its formal borders belongs to it historically and culturally.

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Irredentism

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What is the West Bank? What is the Gaza Strip?

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Israel/Palestine

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

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Landlocked

48
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What is the religious and ethnic make-up for Lebanon?

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Lebanon

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Proposed the heartland theory in the early twentieth century based on environmental determinism, the heartland theory addresses the balance of power in the world and, in particular, the possibility of world conquest based on natural habitat advantage. It held that the Eurasian continent was the most likely base from which to launch a successful campaign for world conquest.

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Mackinder, Halford J.

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A future event accepted as inevitable ; broadly : an ostensibly benevolent or necessary policy of imperialistic expansion

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Manifest destiny

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Involves drawing a line equidistant from the closest mainland points of each of two adjacent countries. The “modified median line” principle allows small adjustments in this equidistance line to account for de facto boundaries or for practical reasons such as avoiding administrative problems that would result from splitting a single oil field between two states (for example).

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Median-line principle (also called the “equidistance method”)

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An imprecise term for a state or territory small in both population and area. An informal definition accepted by the United Nations suggests a maximum of 1 million population combined with a territory of less than 270 sq mi.

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Microstate/ministate

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A culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity, beliefs, and customs.

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Nation

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An ideal form consisting of a homogeneous group of people governed by their own state.

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Nation-state

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Where is it? When was it created? Why was it created?

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Nunavut

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Reason or justification for existence

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Raison d’être

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The process of allocation electoral seats to geographical areas.

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Reapportionment

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A feeling of collective identity based on a population’s politico-territorial identification within a state or across state boundaries.

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Regionalism

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A country which is formally independent but which is primarily subject to the domination of another, larger power.

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Satellite state

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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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Self-determination

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A zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups.

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Shatter belt

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The right of individual states to control political and economic affairs within their territorial boundaries without external interference.

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Sovereignty

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A centralized authority that enforces a single political, economic, and legal system within its territorial boundaries.

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State (country)

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A nation that does not have a state.

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Stateless nation

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The civil right to vote.

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Suffrage

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Occurs when states willingly relinquish some degree of sovereignty in order to gain the benefits of belonging to a larger political-economic entity.

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Supranationalism

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Disagreement between states over the control of surface area.

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Territorial disputes

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Compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated — Know examples for each.

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Territorial morphology

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An individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory considered partially or wholly an exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory.

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Territoriality

70
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A government guided by a religion.

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Theocracy

71
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A code of maritime law approved by the UN in 1982 that authorizes, among other provisions, territorial waters extending 12 nautical miles from shore and 200 nautical mile wide exclusive economic zones.

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UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

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A state in which the central government dictates the degree of local or regional autonomy and the nature of local governmental units; a country with few cultural conflicts and with a strong sense of national identity.

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Unitary

73
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When did it occur? How many countries resulted in the collapse? List the countries. What is USSR?

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USSR collapse

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