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| Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
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| Binational/Multinational State |
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| One that contains more than one nation |
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| Invisible lines that make the extent of a state's territory and the control thats its leaders have |
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| Bind together the people of a state, giving it strength |
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| Destabilize the government and encourage the country to fall apart |
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| The competition between two superpowers - the U.S and Soviet Union - for control of land all over the world |
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| Socialist principles of centralized planning and state ownership |
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| Distance from the center to any boundary is about the same |
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| Spreads the power among many sub-units (such as states), and has a weak central government |
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| Another name for cultural boundaries |
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| Place where a country first starts to grow |
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| Boundaries between states are set by ethnic differences, especially those based on language and/or religion |
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| Action of making something democratic |
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| The transfer of some important powers from central government to sub-governments |
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| Disputes: Positional, Territorial, Resource, Functional |
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Positional: occur when states argue where the border actually is
Territorial: arise over the ownership of a region, usually around mutual borders
Resource: involve natural resources that lie in boundary areas
Functional: arise when neighboring states cannot agree on policies that applying a boder area |
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| Force that can divide and destabilize a state due to economic inequalities and differences |
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| Study of how the spatial configuration of electoral districts and voting patterns reflect and influnce social and political affairs |
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| states have a long and narrow shape |
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| small bits of territory that lie on coasts separated from the state by the territory of another state |
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| landlocked within another country, so that the country totally surrounds it |
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| A force that divide and destabilize a state due to strong ethnic groups with identities that differs from those of the majority or ethnonationalism |
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| The tendency for an ethnic group to see itself as a distinct nation with a right to autonomy or independence |
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| An unratified international treaty intended to crate a consolidated constitution for the European Union |
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| A European Union program intended toward full economic unity in Europe based on the phased introduction of a common currency |
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| A regional organization that promises to redifine the meaning of soverignty |
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| Divides the power between the central government and the sub-units |
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| Capital city serves as a model for national objectives |
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| Divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity |
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| Has several discontinuous pieces of territory |
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| A geographic zone where no state exercies power (thick lines) |
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| Straight, imaginary lines that generally have good reasons behind their creation |
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| Process where the political party in control attempts to redraw boundaries to improve the chances of its supports to win seats |
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| The study of the spatial and territorial dimensions of power relationships within the global political-territorial order |
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| Growth to a global or worldwide scale; commonalities among nations |
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| A reference to the leader ship and institutions that make policy decisions for a country |
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| States that the "pivot are" of the earth - Eurasia - holds the resources, both natural and human, to dominate the globe |
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| Stable, long lasting organizations that help to turn political ideas into policy |
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| Process that encourages states to pool their sovereignty in order to gain political, economic, and social clout |
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| Boundaries that divide the interiors of a country into sections |
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| When people of one state want to annex a territory whose population is ethnically related to them |
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| Those lacking ocean frontage and surrounded by other states |
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| One that does not allow for significant control from the central government |
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| Term that describes the states re-creation of a market in which property, labor, goods, and services can all function in a competitive environment to determine their value |
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| An approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places |
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| Countries with land spaces of just a few square miles |
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| Minority/Majority Distracting |
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| Rearranging districts to allow a minority representative to be elected |
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| Allows for significant control from the central government |
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| Control of the money supply |
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| State with more than one core area |
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| A group of people that is bound together by a common political identity |
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| A state whose territorial extent coincides with that occupied by a distinct nation or poeple, or at least, whose population shares a general sense of unity and allegiance to a set of common values |
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| Shape of the country's territory comes to represent a national consciousness |
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| Compact state with a large projecting extension |
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| Features, such as mountains and lakes, that mark the extent of a state's territory and the control that its leaders have |
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| The study of the political organization of the planet |
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| The collection of political beliefs, values, practices, and institutions that the government is based on |
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| Politicization of Religion |
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| The use of religious principles to promote political ends and vice versa |
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| When no other city comes even close to rivaling the capital city in terms of size or influence |
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| Transfer of state-owned property to private ownership |
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| In the 19th Century, when he theorized that a state compares to a biological organism with a life cycle from birth to death, with a predictable rise and fall of power |
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| Location of a place in relation to another place |
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| Argued that the Eurasian rim, not its hearts, held the key to global oceans and seas |
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| The members (UN) can vote to extablish a preacekeeping force in a "hot spot" and request states to contribute military forces |
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| Nationalities within a country demand independence |
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| Zones of great cultural complexitycontaining many small cultural groups who fine refuge in the isolation created by rough terrain |
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| The ability of the state to carry out actions or policies within its borders independently from interference either from the inside or the outside |
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| A Force that can divide and destabalize a state due to distance, remoteness, and peripheral location |
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| Supranational Organization |
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| Cooperating groups of nations that operate on either a regional or international level |
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| Term that describes the shapes, sizes, and relation locations of states |
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| Efforts to control pieces of the earths surface for political and social ends |
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| "Third Wave" of Democratization |
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| Refers to the third major surge of democracy in history; characterized by the defeat of dictatorial or totalitarian rulers from South America to Easturn Europe to some parts of Africa |
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Spheres of authority that the Maastricht Treaty created:
1. Trade and other economic matters, including economic and monetary union into a single currency, and the creation of the European Central Bank
2. Justice and home affairs, including policy governing asylum, border crossing, immigration, and judicial cooperation on crime and terrorism
3. Common foreign and security policy, including joint positions and actions, and common defense policy |
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| A country that concentrates all policy-making powers in one central geographic place |
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