Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards
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The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs.
Sovereignty
Largest political unit, the formal term for a country.
State
A group of people who have certain things in common:
-A common cultural heritage
-A set of beliefs and values that unify them
-A traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland
-A desire to establish their own state or express self-rule in another way
Nation
A nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state.
Nation-State
A country that contains more than one nation.
Multinational State
A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state.
Autonomous Region
A state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule.
Semi autonomous Region
Occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.
Multi state Nation
A cultural group that has no political entity.
Stateless Nation
A broader concept that includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance.
Imperialism
A particular type of imperialism in which people move into and settle on the land of another country.
Colonialism
The right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence.
Self-Determination
The process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy (right to self-government) by the central political unit.
Devolution
A willingness by a person or a group of people to defend the space they claim.
Territoriality
The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies.
Neocolonialism
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction. Ex. A bridge or ocean separates land.
Choke Point
A boundary that was established before a large population was present. It is a political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and is often based on physical features such as rivers, mountains, or lines of latitude.
Antecedent Boundary
This boundary is typically created while the cultural landscape is evolving and is subject to change over time.
Subsequent Boundary
This type of boundary is drawn by outside powers and may have ignored existing cultural patterns.
Superimposed Boundary
Held from 1884 to 1885, it was a meeting of European powers aimed at regulating European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
Berlin Conference
This is a boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but evidence of it still exists on this landscape.
Relict Boundary
A straight line or arc drawn by people that does not closely follow any physical feature.
Geometric Boundary
A type of subsequent border that takes into account already-existing cultural or physical landscapes.
Consequent Boundary
Drawn on a map by a cartographer to show the limits of a space.
Delimited Boundary
A boundary identified by physical objects placed on the landscape. Ex. A sign, a fence, a wall.
Demarcated Boundary
A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex (officially add) territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims to the land.
Irredentism
Regions that are politically fragmented and often subject to external pressures and conflicts, typically located between larger, more powerful nations.
Shatterbelt
The drawing of boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power.
Gerrymandering
Unites separate political entities into an overarching system that allows each entity to maintain some degree of sovereignty.
Federal State
A system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government, in contrast to a federal state.
Unitary State
Forcible removal of a certain ethnic, racial, or religious group, usually to create an ethnically homogeneous area.
Ethnic Cleansing
Organized violence aimed at government and civilian targets to create fear for the advancement of political goals.
Terrorism
The process of moving a nation’s government from an authoritarian, meaning dictatorship system, to a democratic system.
Democratization
Support for the political interests of a particular ethnic group within a state, especially its national independence or self-determination.
Ethnonationalism
An invisible line that marks the outer limits of a state’s territory.
Boundary
Regions or countries that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies and have the highest levels of productivity and wealth.
Core States
An area of the Earth where elevation changes suddenly.
Escarpments
A maritime zone extending up to 200 nautical miles from a coastal state’s baseline, where the state has exclusive rights to explore and exploit marine resources.
Exclusive Economic Zones
A state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries.
Failed State
A nation is a group of people with common cultural characteristics, whereas a state is an area with defined boundaries that has sovereignty within its borders.
Nation vs. State
Regions that are often economically and politically disadvantaged compared to more developed areas, known as the core.
Peripheral States
The process of redrawing the boundaries of electoral districts to reflect changes in population and ensure fair representation.
Redistricting
Regions or entities within a country that possess a degree of autonomy or self-governance.
Subnational Unit
The process of nation-states organizing politically and economically into one organization or alliance.
Supranational
An international organization founded in 1945, aimed at fostering global cooperation and maintaining peace and security among nations.
United Nations
An international treaty that outlines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, covering areas such as territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, and continental shelves.
UNCLOS
The unequal distribution of resources, wealth, and opportunities across different regions and populations.
Uneven Development
A state that has the political, economic, and social stability to maintain sovereignty and function effectively over time.
Viable State
