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| the study of the political organization of the world |
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| a politically organized area that has defined territory, government, and a permanent population |
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| when a person or group attempts to affect, influence or control people, phenomena, or relationships by asserting control over a geographic area |
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| having the final, absolute control over a territory |
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| when a state is recognized and has the right to the land and to defend it |
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| an accumalation of wealth through plunder, colonization, and the protextion of home industries and the foreign market |
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| occured in 1648 and was the beginning of the modern state. stated that territories define societies |
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| a group of people who see themselves having a shared belief of culture and history |
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| when nation and state occupy the same territory |
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| idea that people are the ultimate sovereign |
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| a state that is home to more than one nation |
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| when a nation expands over the borders of one state |
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| a nation that is not recognized to have a government or specific state |
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| when a state occupys another unclaimed territory to benefit for some purpose |
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| used to describe how the modern day world functions |
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| the world economy has 1 market and global division of labor |
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| almost everything occurs within context of the world economy, despite the fact that the world has multiple states |
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| world economy has a three tier structure |
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| economy in which the world economy, people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on a world market with the goal of making $$$ |
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| placing a price on a good and then buying, selling, and trading the good |
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| core, periphery, semiperiphery |
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| when education and salaries are higher, and technology is more advanced |
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| education levels and salaries are low, technology hasn't progressed much |
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| state in which both core processes and periphery processes are observed (USA) |
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| forces within a state that unify the people |
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| forces within a state that divide the people |
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| state with a very centralized capital city that holds the power |
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| government is spread to regional areas, provinces, territories, etc. |
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| the movement of government power from a central to regional government |
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| territorial representation |
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| representatives elected to a house from a district |
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| process by which districts are moved according to population shifts |
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| with votes are divided by districts to benefit the chances a politician has |
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| Majority-Minority Districts |
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| when the minority of a packed district is the majority |
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| redrawing districts for political gain |
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| a vertical plane the defines territory and that stretches below into the rock and to the airspace above |
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| boundaries that follow lines of longitude and latitiude |
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| physical-political boundaries |
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| boundaries drawn around or in accordance with physical features |
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| Ratzel propsed that states function like organisms and must expand or die |
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| a land power would dominate the world and have ultimate power (Mackinder) |
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| groups of intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places that affect the people |
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| there is but one super power that most other states depend on in some way |
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| Supranational Organization |
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| entity composed of 3+ states that come together likeminded in the hopes to benefit in shared goals |
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