Political Patterns and Processes Part 1

Question 1

Autonomous Region

Answer 1

An area of a country that has degree of autonomy , or has freedom from an external authority.

Question 2

Multinational State

Answer 2

A country with multiple culture groups or multiple ethnic groups under a single government.

Question 3

Multistate Nation

Answer 3

When a nation stretches across borders and across states.

Question 4

Nation

Answer 4

A group of people with common cultural characteristics.

Question 5

Nation-State

Answer 5

A country whose political boundaries correspond with its cultural boundaries.

Question 6

Semiautonomous Region

Answer 6

An area where a group has some type of political autonomy. Semi-autonomous regions, like Kurdistan, has a degree of power and self-determination, but not fully like the autonomous regions of Russia in the North Caucasus region.

Question 7

Sovereignty

Answer 7

The political authority of a state to govern itself.

Question 8

State

Answer 8

A politically bound area controlled by an established government that has authority over its internal affairs and foreign policy.

Question 9

Stateless Nation

Answer 9

A nation of people without a state that it considers home.

Question 10

Berlin Conference

Answer 10

This conference of 1884-1885 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the period known as New Imperialism. The political boundaries established at the conference had no regard for the existing cultural patterns between African ethnic groups.

Question 11

Centrifugal Force

Answer 11

Centrifugal forces, in contrast to centripetal forces, are forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state. Centrifugal forces originate in the same dimensions as centripetal forces, but the forces pull the population apart instead of bringing it together.

Question 12

Centripetal Force

Answer 12

An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state. In other words, centripetal forces from within a state unite it and keep the country together. They stabilize and strengthen the country and create a sense of unity.

Question 13

Cold War

Answer 13

A state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).

Question 14

Colonialism

Answer 14

The process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country which they have settled and taken over. Often, the governing country uses the colony for its resources, taking what is useful without regard to the original inhabitants.

Question 15

Decolonization

Answer 15

Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

Question 16

Devolution

Answer 16

The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones

Question 17

Genocide

Answer 17

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Question 18

Imperialism

Answer 18

Forceful extension of a nation’s authority by conquest or by establishing economic and political domination of other nations that aren’t its colonies.

Question 19

Nationalism

Answer 19

The attachment of a person to a particular nation, or a political action by such a group to achieve statehood (or national self-determination), or an ideology that a person’s nation is superior to all others.

Question 20

Self-Determination

Answer 20

The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and governments.

Question 21

Satellite States

Answer 21

A political term that refers to a country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.

Question 22

Geopolitics

Answer 22

The study of the interplay between international political relations and the territories in which they occur.

Question 23

Territoriality

Answer 23

A means of affecting (enhancing or impeding) interaction and extends the particulars of action by contact. Territoriality is defined here as the attempt to affect, influence, or control actions, interactions, or access by asserting and attempting to enforce control over a specific geographic area.

Question 24

Neocolonialism

Answer 24

The continued economic dependence of colonies on their former occupiers.

Question 25

Choke Point

Answer 25

A geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or a bridge, or at sea such as a straight which an armed force is forced to pass, therefore greatly decreasing its combat, in order to reach its objective.

Question 26

Antecedent Boundary

Answer 26

The name of a boundary between two states that is created before the area is populated with human society.

Question 27

Consequent Boundary

Answer 27

A boundary between opposing cultural, ethnic, or political groups, that was established to settle disputes, end wars, and establish a clear separation between groups.

Question 28

Cultural Boundary

Answer 28

The geographical term for the border between two different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.

Question 29

Cultural Consequent Boundary

Answer 29

A combination of a consequent and a cultural boundary???

Question 30

Ethnographic Boundaries

Answer 30

State and national boundaries that are drawn to follow distinct differences in cultural traits such as religion, language, or ethnic identity.

Question 31

Geometric Boundary

Answer 31

A boundary created by using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs.

Question 32

Landlocked States

Answer 32

A country that is completely surrounded by the territory of more than one other country and has no direct access to the sea.

Question 33

Militarized Boundary

Answer 33

Physical barrier constructed by the state to either keep people in or out of their territory.

Question 34

Open Boundary

Answer 34

A boundary in which there are no establishments and one is free to move from one side to another.

Question 35

Physical Consequent Boundary

Answer 35

A combination of a physical and consequent boundary???

Question 36

Physical Geographic Boundaries

Answer 36

A combination of a physical and geographic boundary???

Question 37

Relic Boundary

Answer 37

A boundary that used to exist and can still be detected on the landscape, like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall.

Question 38

Subsequent Boundary

Answer 38

A boundary established after the settlement of a region.

Question 39

Superimposed Boundary

Answer 39

Political barriers drawn in an area with complete disregard for the cultural, religious, and ethnic divisions within the people living there.