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Conflict over the language of the border agreement in a treaty or boundary contract
  • Ethnic conflict
  • Definitional boundary dispute
  • Irredentism
  • Subsequent boundary
The study of the interactions among space, place and region and the conduct and results of elections.
  • Devolution
  • Reapportionment
  • Electoral geography
  • Geopolitics
to divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections
  • Gerrymander
  • Core area
  • Geopolitics
  • Electoral geography
the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
  • Devolution
  • Irredentism
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism
tending to move toward a center
  • Colonialism
  • Irredentism
  • Centripetal
  • Centrifugal
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.
  • Conference of Berlin (1884)
  • Multinational state
  • Capital
  • Microstate
the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
  • Terrorism
  • Irredentism
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism
an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
  • Warsaw Pact
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • United Nations (un)
  • European Union
Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.
  • Rimland Theory
  • Colonialism
  • Irredentism
  • Imperialism
the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images.
  • National iconography
  • Antecedent boundary
  • Global commons
  • Self-determination
a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory.
  • Stateless Nation
  • Exclave
  • Enclave
  • Core Area
A type of territorial shape that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory
  • Antecedent boundary
  • protruded state
  • Border landscape
  • Annexation
the action of changing from colonial to independent status
  • Irredentism
  • Decolonization
  • Colonialism
  • Imperialism
Any dispute over land ownership
  • Territorial disputes
  • Territoriality
  • Centripetal
  • Centrifugal
The spatial analysis of political phenomena and processes.
  • Decolonization
  • Political Geography
  • Electoral geography
  • Relic boundary
those parts of our environment available to everyone but for which no single individual has responsibility--the atmosphere, fresh water, forests, wildlife, and ocean fisheries
  • Buffer state
  • Border landscape
  • Global commons
  • National iconography
the act of forming an alliance or confederation
  • Multinational State
  • Confederation
  • Unitary State
  • Sovereignty
surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land
  • European Union
  • Geopolitics
  • Landlocked
  • Enclave
a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
  • Unitary State
  • City-state
  • Multinational State
  • Nation
Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country's colonies.
  • Conference of Berlin (1884)
  • Conference of Berlin (1879)
  • Conference of Berlin (1883)
  • Conference of Berlin (1984)
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
  • Buffer state
  • State
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Mini state
treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • European Union
  • Satellite State
  • Warsaw Pact
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
  • Compact state
  • Unitary state
  • Microstate
  • Federal state
tending to move away from a center
  • Terrorism
  • Centripetal
  • Centrifugal
  • Irredentism
A state that is not contiguous whole but rather separated parts.
  • Elongated state
  • Microstate
  • Compact state
  • Fragmented state
a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • Nation
  • Self-determination
  • Unitary State
  • City-state
loyalty to the interests of a particular region
  • Nation
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism
  • Regionalism
The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include all stages of life.
  • Rimland Theory
  • Supranationalism
  • Nationalism
  • Geopolitical Theory (aka Organic Theory, Ratzel's Theory)
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
  • Multinational state
  • Unitary state
  • City-state
  • Nation
a small neutral state between two rival powers
  • Compact state
  • Irredentism
  • Buffer state
  • Stateless nation
A political-geographical model suggesting that persistent regional patterns in voting behavior, sometimes leading to separatism, can usually be explained in terms of tensions ptting urban against rural, core against periphery, capitalists against workers, and power group against minority culture.
  • Reapportionment
  • Global Commons
  • Geometric Political Boundary
  • Clevage Model
A nationality that is not represented by a state.
  • Unitary state
  • Stateless nation
  • Fragmented state
  • Nation
enerally 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
  • Exclusive Economic Zone
  • Antecedent Boundary
  • Superimposed Boundary
  • Median-line Principle
boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity
  • Delimitation phase in boundary creation
  • Demarcation phase in boundary process
  • Cultural/ethnographic political boundary
  • Locational /positional boundary dispute
A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state.
  • Elongated state
  • Fragmented state
  • Perforated state
  • Compact state
the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
  • Irredentism
  • Domino theory
  • Exclave
  • Imperialism
States with alot of immigrants
  • Reapportionment
  • Immigrant states
  • Landlocked
  • Raison d'être
An internal organization of a state that allocated most powers to units of local government.
  • Federal state
  • Microstate
  • Confederation
  • Unitary state
phrase borrowed from French where it means simply "reason for being"; in English use it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone".
  • Clevage model
  • Raison d'être
  • Annexation
  • Exclave
an undeveloped field of study
  • Stateless Nation
  • Frontier
  • Enclave
  • Nation
An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
  • Landlocked
  • Nation-state
  • Decolonization
  • Enclave
an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
  • European Union
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Warsaw Pact
  • United Nations (un)
1994, constitution for the ocean to protect resources
  • Decolonization
  • Allocational/resource boundary dispute
  • UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
  • Relic boundary
the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
  • Imperialism
  • Annexation
  • Sovereignty
  • Reunification
an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States.[1] Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas. It is the world's oldest regional organization.
  • North atlantic treaty organization
  • Imperialism
  • United nations (un)
  • Organization of American States (OAS)
a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution
  • Political Geography
  • Suffrage
  • Frontier
  • Exclave
independent country that is very small in area and population
  • City-state
  • Compact state
  • Mini state
  • Microstate
they no longer exist as international boundaries.
  • Centrifugal
  • Political Geography
  • Decolonization
  • Relic boundary
a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)...
  • Superimposed boundary
  • Geometric political boundary
  • Cultural/ethnographic political boundary
  • Territoriality
a new apportionment (especially a reallotment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
  • Electoral Geography
  • Devolution
  • Reapportionment
  • Irredentism
natural boundary might be something like a river, mountain range or an ocean. These are generally considered to be obstructions which prevent crossing without additional equipment or assistance, such as a boat or horses to carry what you need to cross a mountain range., political boundary would be a real or imagined line in the sand that defines the boundary of a nation or state
  • Definition phase in boundary process
  • Physical/natural political boundary
  • Operational/functional boundary dispute
  • Allocational/resource boundary dispute
Phase in which the boundary is visibly marked on the landscape by a fence, line, sign, wall or other means
  • Delimitation phase in boundary creation
  • Allocational/resource boundary dispute
  • Demarcation phase in boundary process
  • Median-line principle
the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state
  • Geopolitics
  • Imperialism
  • Irredentism
  • Nationalism
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.
  • Buffer state
  • Devolution
  • Forward capital
  • Unitary state
the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will
  • Sovereignty
  • Imperialism
  • Self-determination
  • Nationalism
No one owns it
  • Landlocked
  • Devolution
  • Frontier
  • Antarctica
a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
  • Irredentism
  • Nation
  • Devolution
  • Supranationalism
A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.
  • Fragmented state
  • Compact state
  • Perforated state
  • Elongated state
A political term that refers to a country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.
  • Unitary state
  • Satellite state
  • Buffer state
  • Enclave
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