unit 4 politics

Question 1

autonomy defex

Answer 1

independence or freedom, govern independantly - body autonomy

Question 2

boundary defex

Answer 2

a limit of an area or thing - us state boundaries

Question 3

city state defex

Answer 3

a city having sovereignty over a territorry - athens or sparta

Question 4

devolution defex

Answer 4

when the central power in a state is broken up regionally,, a range of devising pressures that stress their existing structure - soviet union breaking up, uk countries

Question 5

ethnonationalism defex

Answer 5

people of a country identifying as having one common ethnicity, language, ect, also ethnic nationalism - germany or central europe

Question 6

federal state defex

Answer 6

where power is shared between the government and its internal regional units - us or germany

Question 7

irredentism defex

Answer 7

attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation,,, when the majority ethnicity on one side of a boundary wants to claim territory from a neighboring state in order to bring in a minority group of the same ethnicity or other commonality who reside accross the border - russia, ukraine, and crimea

Question 8

multinational state defex

Answer 8

country with many nations (ethnicities and cultures) in its borders - indonesia, afghanistan, nigeria, belgium — russia, us, soviet union

Question 9

multi-state nation defex

Answer 9

a nation that is in many different states - ottoman empire, czechoslovakia, soviet union, austria-hungary — koreas, kurds

Question 10

nation def

Answer 10

a cultural entity made up of people who have forced a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity

Question 11

nation state defex

Answer 11

a politically organized and recognized territory made of people who think they are a nation, very isolated - japan, iceland, us

Question 12

reapportionment defex

Answer 12

redistribution of representative sears among states based on population shifts - house of reps

Question 13

self determination defex

Answer 13

the right of people to choose their own political status - northern ireland in uk

Question 14

shatterbelf defex

Answer 14

where states join and break up because of ongoing conflict among parties and because they arecaught between the interests of more powerful outside states - eastern europe

Question 15

state defex

Answer 15

a politically organized independant territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanant population - a country or like us states

Question 16

supranational organization defex

Answer 16

an alliance of three or more states that work together in pursuit of common goals or to address an issue or challengs - nato, eu

Question 17

territoriality defex

Answer 17

attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over an area, and their connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to land,,, using space to communicate ownership - italy and san marino and vatican, south africa and eswatini and lesotho

Question 18

unitary state defex

Answer 18

an organization of a state in which power is concentrated in a central government - china

Question 19

neocolonialism defex

Answer 19

the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies - former african colonies that depend on outside powers for economy, choke points

Question 20

defining a boundary

Answer 20

legally state where with natural or laditude and longitude

Question 21

delimiting a boundary

Answer 21

draw on a map with legal aggreement, us in 1848 with mexico

Question 21

demarcate a boundary

Answer 21

physical objects like stones, walls, pillars, or fences

Question 22

administer a boundary

Answer 22

to maintain how goods and people will cross them, rare where cannot cross at all like north korea or schengen area in france germany or sweden

Question 23

antecendent boundary defex

Answer 23

established before many people settle into an area - us and canada 49th parallel

Question 24

subsequent boundary defex

Answer 24

drawn in areas that have been settles by people where cultural landscapes already exist or are in the porcess of being established, most common, takes time to establish, related to territoriality - france and germany

Question 25

consequent boundary defex

Answer 25

type of subsequent boundary, they take into account the cultural landscape differences, seperating groups that have distinct languages, religions, or ethnicities - yugoslavia, india and pakistan

Question 26

superimposed boundary defex

Answer 26

drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force - africa and berlin confrence

Question 27

geometric boundaries defex

Answer 27

mathmatical and follow lines of latitude or longitude, are straight - colorado, wyoming, utah, north africa

Question 28

relic boundary defex

Answer 28

former boundaries that once existed but no longer have an official function - east and west germany, border still lingers with different architecture, vietnam, hopefully korea

Question 29

ways to respond to devolutionary forces

Answer 29

sharing more power with subnational units, sovereignty and self determination, a shift in a states form of governance, breaking up a country into subnational units, disintegration of the state

Question 30

fronteir

Answer 30

geographic area where no state has direct power or control

Question 31

definitional boundary dispute

Answer 31

about the interpretations of the original documents that defined the boundary

Question 32

locational boundary dispute

Answer 32

about the location of the boundary and the ownership of the land

Question 33

operational boundary dispute

Answer 33

about how to manage the borders and handle different issues that occur on them

Question 34

allocational boundary dispute

Answer 34

over the use of whats on or in the boundaries like natural resources

Question 35

UNCLOS sections

Answer 35

territorial waters (12 miles), contiguous zone (12-24 miles), and exclisive economic zone (24-200 miles)

Question 36

safe district

Answer 36

area where it is almost impossible for a certain party to win

Question 37

independent state requires

Answer 37

defined territory boundaries, permanent population, government, sovereignty, and recognition from other states