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Laws (no longer in affect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

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Apartheid

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

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Balance of Power

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among it’s ethnicities.

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Balkanization

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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices out of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood.

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Blockbusting

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Invisible line the marks the extent of a states territory.

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Boundary

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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.

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Centripetal Force

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A sovereign state comprising a city and it’s immediate hinterland.

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City-State

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A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

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Ethnic Cleansing

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Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.

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Ethnicity

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

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Federal State

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A zone separating Z states in which neither state exercises political control.

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Frontier

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To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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Gerrymandering

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Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group.

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Imperialism

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A state that encompasses a very small land area.

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Microstate

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A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

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Multiethnic State

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A state containing Z or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

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Multinational State

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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.

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Nationalism

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Identification with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.

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Nationality

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

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Nation-State

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Identification with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.

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Race

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The belief that race is the Primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

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Racism

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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

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Racist

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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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Self-determination

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A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

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Sharecropper

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

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State

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A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves, from Africa to Caribbean Islands, molasses from the caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

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Triangular Slave Trade

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An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

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Unitary State

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The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.

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Annexation

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A (small) neutral state between two rival powers.

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Buffer State

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An Attitude the tends to spread the people farther away from the center (not unifying).

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Centrifugal Forces

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The act of forming an alliance of confederation.

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Confederation

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A form of government in which the people elect the leaders.

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Democracy

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A portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another of others, as viewed by the home territory.

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Exclave

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A symbolic relocation of a capital city to a geographically of demographically peripheral location, may be for either economic or strategic reasons.

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Forward Capital

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The study of how geography and economics have influence on politics.

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Geopolitic

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The earth’s unowned Natural resources.

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Global Commons

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Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

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Globalization

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Hypothesis proposed by Halford Mckinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.

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Heartland Theory

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The national barrier separating the soviet and the West prior tho the decline of communism.

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Iron Curtain

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The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which the are Ethnically or historically related.

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Irredentism

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Government ruled by one person, usually king of queen.

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Monarchy

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A group of people who share a common culture and Identify as a cohesive group.

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Nation

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A new apportionment (a new apportionment of congressional seats in USA)

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Reapportionment

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Loyalty to the interests of a particular region.

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Regionalism

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A state in which supreme power is held by the people and, their elected representatives, and elect a president.

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Republic

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The act of coming together.

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Reunification

47
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A political theory that holds that control of Eurasia and Africa is achieved via control of the countries bordering the Soviet Union.

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Rimland Theory

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Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.

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Satellite State

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Is a type of multinational organization where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states.

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Supranational Organization

50
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The study of states’ shapes and their effects.

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Territorial Morphology

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Government ruled of religious elite (religious leader).

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Theocracy

52
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The transfer or delegation of power to lower levels (central government, to local government)

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Devolution

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The ability of state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

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Sovereighty

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