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| the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation |
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| a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race |
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| the division of a territory into small, hostile states |
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there are two types, exclusionary and inclusionary:
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exclusionary is meant to keep people out, such as the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
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inclusionary is meant to facilitate trade and movement, such as the U.S.-Canada border
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definitional: conflict over the language of the border agreement in a treaty or boundary contract
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locational: territorial dispute along the edge of two neighboring land owners,
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operational: boundaries that move according to operations or functions,
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allocational: dispute over location and resources
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antecedent: a boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area
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subsequent: a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes
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superimposed: a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)
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relic: they no longer exist as international boundaries.
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| a small neutral state between two rival powers |
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| principle city in a state or country; the best place to locate a capital is at the center of a country, so it is a somewhat equal distance from all parts of the country. |
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| tending to move away from a center |
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| tending to move toward a center |
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| a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
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| exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one |
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| Conference of Berlin (1884) |
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| regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country's colonies. |
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| theory based on the notion that as one region or state expands in economic prosperity, it must engulf regions nearby... |
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| the action of changing from colonial to independent status |
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| the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality |
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| the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control |
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| the study of the interactions among space, place and region and the conduct and results of elections. |
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| an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it |
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| type of conflict that occurs when different tribes are lumped together to form a country |
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| an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
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| an internal organization of a state that allocated most powers to units of local government. |
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| capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, it confirms the states determination to maintain its presence in the region in contention. |
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| a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control |
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| the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state |
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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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| parts of the environment available to everyone but for which no single individual has responsibility: the atmosphere, fresh water, forests, wildlife, and ocean fisheries |
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| hypothesis proposed by Halford MacKinder 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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| Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest. |
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| a type of receiving state which is the target of many immigrants. Immigrant states are popular because of their economy, political freedom, and opportunity (e.g., US, Germany,...). |
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| International Organization |
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| organizations that are made up primarily of sovereign states, referred to as member states |
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| a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region |
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| The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state |
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| a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea |
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| Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources |
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| an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean |
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| English geographer and politician. He is famous for his geopolitical concept that the globe is divided into two parts—the superior Eurasian "heartland"( this would include eastern Europe and modern day Turkey, and Russia) and the inferior rest of the world. |
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| a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God) |
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| an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places |
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| A state or territory that is small in both size and population |
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| independent country that is very small in area and population |
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| a politically organized body of people under a single governmen |
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| the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images |
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| a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a country as a sovereign territorial unit |
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| an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what were the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago |
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| French phrase meaning "reason for existence” |
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| to change the proportion of a legislative body based on population so that there is equal representation |
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| to change the proportion of a legislative body based on population so that there is equal representation |
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| intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices |
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| the act of coming together again |
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| a political term that refers to a country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country |
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| embodies the right for all peoples to determine their own economic, social and cultural development |
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| a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals |
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| government free from external control |
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| an organized political community, living under a government |
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| ethnic groups that share certain cultural, political, and/or historic qualities, such as religion, location, or art, but do not share enough qualities to be recognized as a nationality/nation and have no state (homeland) that is politically recognized as belonging to them |
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| a group, usually a minority ethnic group, considered as a nation entitled to its own state, specifically a nation-state for that nation |
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| transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest |
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| disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states, or over the possession or control of land by a new state and occupying power after it has conquered the land from a former state no longer currently recognized by the new state |
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| a behavior pattern consisting of the occupation and defense of a territory |
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| government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided (basically the idea that God or any other divinity gave someone the right to rule) |
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| a port kept open for foreign trade according to the terms of a treaty |
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| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
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| governs all aspects of ocean space, such as delimitation, environmental control, marine scientific research, economic and commercial activities, transfer of technology and the settlement of disputes relating to ocean matters |
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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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| The Soviet Union (Russia) collapse in 1991 |
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| the right of voting when given to women |
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| Generally, a state's EEZ extends to a distance of 200 nautical miles (370 km) out from its coast. The exception to this rule occurs when EEZs would overlap; that is, state coastal baselines are less than 400 nautical miles apart. When an overlap occurs, it is up to the states to delineate the actual boundary.[1] Generally, any point within an overlapping area defaults to the most proximate state |
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A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean |
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| a parlimentary republic in the Middle East, along the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea |
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