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| 11951011285 | geopolitics | study of government and its policies as affected by physical geography |  | 0 |
| 11951011286 | territoriality | the defense of a bounded physical space against encroachment by other individuals | 1 | |
| 11951011287 | organic theory | expansion to feed new growth or stagnation results (If you are not growing, you are dying) | 2 | |
| 11951011288 | heartland theory | 1904: Sir Halford Mackinder's theory: take over Eastern Europe and spread outwards |  | 3 |
| 11951011289 | rimland theory | Spykman's theory that the Eurasian rim, not its heart, held the key to global power |  | 4 |
| 11951011290 | defined boundary | boundary is created in agreement between two parties in a treaty or other legal document |  | 5 |
| 11951011291 | delimited boundary | boundary is drawn on a map by cartographers and "agreed" to by two sides |  | 6 |
| 11951011292 | demarcated boundary | a boundary marked by some visible means on the ground• EX: wall posts, fence, etc. |  | 7 |
| 11951011293 | natural boundary | a boundary created by physical features, such as a mountain, river, or strait; Missouri River |  | 8 |
| 11951011294 | geometric boundary | Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines; Libya and Egypt |  | 9 |
| 11951011295 | cultural boundary | A boundary that follows the distribution of cultural characteristics; rice or wheat based food in China |  | 10 |
| 11951011296 | antecedent boundary | a boundary line established before the area in question is well populated; US and Canada's use of 49th parallel |  | 11 |
| 11951011297 | subsequent boundary | A boundary drawn after a cultural landscape is already in place; N. Ireland and Republic of Ireland |  | 12 |
| 11951011298 | relic boundary | a former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape features; boundary between West and East Germany |  | 13 |
| 11951011299 | superimposed boundary | a boundary line placed over and ignoring an existing cultural pattern; Berlin Conference dividing Africa |  | 14 |
| 11951011300 | militarized boundary | a boundary that is heavily guarded and discourages movement; N & S Korea |  | 15 |
| 11951011301 | open boundary | a boundary where crossing is unimpeded; Schengen Agreement areas of Europe |  | 16 |
| 11951011302 | definitional boundary | Conflict over how to interpret the language of the border agreement in a treaty or boundary contract; mountain areas of Chile and Argentina |  | 17 |
| 11951011303 | locational boundary | a boundary dispute on where a boundary should be; post-WWI Germany and Poland | 18 | |
| 11951011304 | irredentism | any political or popular movement intended to reclaim and reoccupy a lost homeland |  | 19 |
| 11951011305 | operational boundary | a boundary dispute that involves how the boundary functions; Syrian refugees crossing into Europe |  | 20 |
| 11951011306 | allocational boundary | A boundary dispute that involves conflicting claims to the natural resources of a border region; Iraq invaded Kuwait for digging horizontal oil wells |  | 21 |
| 11951011307 | United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea | establishes how far into the ocean a state's influence extends |  | 22 |
| 11951011308 | territorial sea | a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles from the baseline of a coastal state | 23 | |
| 11951011309 | contiguous zone | 24 nmi from baseline, state can enforce laws in areas of customs, taxation, immigration or pollution |  | 24 |
| 11951011310 | Exclusive Economic Zone | -To 230 miles (370 kilometers) in which state has right to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage |  | 25 |
| 11951011311 | high seas | refers to the area of the sea beyond the national jurisdiction of any state |  | 26 |
| 11951011312 | electorate | all of the people entitled to vote in a given election |  | 27 |
| 11951011313 | census | A periodic and official count of a country's population. |  | 28 |
| 11951011314 | reapportionment | the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census |  | 29 |
| 11951011315 | redistricting | the drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes |  | 30 |
| 11951011316 | gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |  | 31 |
| 11951011317 | cracking | dividing an opponent's voters into other districts to weaken the opponent's voter base | 32 | |
| 11951011318 | packing | drawing the lines so they include as many of the opposing party's voters as possible | 33 | |
| 11951011319 | shatterbelt | A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict. |  | 34 |
| 11951011320 | unitary state | A state with a strong central government that retains most of the political power |  | 35 |
| 11951011321 | federal state | an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government |  | 36 |
| 11951011322 | compact state | a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly |  | 37 |
| 11951011323 | elongated state | a state with a long, narrow shape |  | 38 |
| 11951011324 | prorupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension |  | 39 |
| 11951011325 | perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another state. (Example: South Africa) |  | 40 |
| 11951011326 | fragmented state | a state whose territory contains isolated parts, separated and discontinuous |  | 41 |
| 11951011327 | annexation | The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. |  | 42 |
| 11951011328 | supranationalism | term applied to associations created by three or more states for their mutual benefit; NATO, EU, UN |  | 43 |
| 11951011329 | devolution | transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local governments |  | 44 |
| 11951011330 | subnationalism | regional and other alliances within a state that rival the state's dominant nationalism |  | 45 |
| 11951011331 | balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |  | 46 |
| 11951011332 | democratization | the transition to a more democratic political regime | 47 | |
| 11951011333 | hom*ogeneous | all of the same or similar kind or nature |  | 48 |
| 11951011334 | state | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. |  | 49 |
| 11951011335 | sovereignty | ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states |  | 50 |
| 11951011336 | nation | a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity | 51 | |
| 11951011337 | nation-state | a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural hom*ogeneity and unity |  | 52 |
| 11951011338 | multinational state | state with more than one nation within its borders |  | 53 |
| 11951011339 | autonomous region | self ruled region within another country - examples: Hong Kong in China, Northern Ireland in the UK |  | 54 |
| 11951011340 | stateless nation | nation that does not have a state |  | 55 |
| 11951011341 | multistate nation | nation that stretches across borders and across states |  | 56 |
| 11951011342 | nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |  | 57 |
| 11951011343 | centripetal forces | forces that tend to unite or bind a country together, PET |  | 58 |
| 11951011344 | centrifugal forces | forces that tend to divide a state, FU |  | 59 |
| 11951011345 | imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |  | 60 |
| 11951011346 | colonialism | exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one |  | 61 |
| 11951011347 | Berlin Conference, 1884 | European powers divided up Africa without worrying about borders or cultures |  | 62 |
| 11951011348 | decolonization | The process by which former colonies gain their independence from the mother country |  | 63 |
| 11951011349 | neocolonialism | the continuation, in a former colony, of colonial exploitation without formal political control |  | 64 |
| 11951011350 | genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial, religion, ethnicity, or nation group |  | 65 |
| 11951011351 | Cold War | the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II |  | 66 |
| 11951011352 | satellite state | a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country |  | 67 |
| 11951011353 | ethnic cleansing | the systematic killing or extermination of an entire ethnicity |  | 68 |
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