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| Question | Answer |
| Annexation | the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation |
| Antartica | It is the largest land mass in the world not part of a sovereign state. Territorial claims are suspended on Antarctica. |
| Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites |
| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| Buffer State | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
| Capital | 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. |
| Centrifugal | tending to move away from a center |
| Centripetal | tending to move toward a center |
| City-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
| Confederation | the act of forming an alliance or confederation |
| Conference of Berlin (1884) | Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country's colonies. |
| Decolonization | the action of changing from colonial to independent status |
| Devolution | the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality |
| Domino theory | the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control |
| Exclusive Economic Zone | Exclusive Economic Zone 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 |
| Electoral regions | The study of the interactions among space, place and region and the conduct and results of elections. |
| Enclave | an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it |
| Ethnic conflict | type of conflict that occurs when different tribes are lumped together to form a country |
| European Union | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
| Exclave | a part of a country that is separated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory. |
| Federal | An internal organization of a state that allocated most powers to units of local government. |
| Forward capital | 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. |
| Frontier | an undeveloped field of study |
| Geopolitics | the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state |
| Gerrymander | to divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections |
| Global commons | 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 |
| Immigrant states | States with alot of immigrants |
| Irredentism | the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related |
| Landlocked | surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land |
| Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region |
| Law of the Sea | Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources. |
| Lebanon | an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean |
| Halford J. Mackinder | British political geographer noted for his work as an educator and for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two camps, the ascendant Eurasian "heartland" and the subordinate "maritime lands," including the other continents. |
| Manifest destiny | This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory. |
| Median-line principle | The system of drawing a political boundary midway between two states' coastlines when the territorial seas or EEZ are narrower than twice the standard or adopted limit. |
| Microstate | a state or territory that is small in both population and area |
| Ministate | independent country that is very small in area and population |
| Nation | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
| Nation-state | An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group |
| Nunavut | one of Canada's territories and home to many of Canada's Inuit; it was carved out of the eastern half of the Northwest Territories in1999 |
| Reapportionment | the process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. |
| Religious conflict | this is the conflicts between religions. One of these is Israel-Palestine. This consists of Roman Takeovers, Muslim conquests, and the crusades. This affects human geography because there has been a lot of bloodshed over Religious Conflict. |
| Satellite state | Country controlled by a more powerful nation |
| Shatterbelt | a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals |
| Sovereignty | the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries |
| State | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
| Suffrage | a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution |
| Supranationalism | a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives |
| Territorial disputes | A disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states, or over the possession or control of land |
| Theocracy | government run by religious leaders |
| Treaty ports | Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the treaty ports, foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality |
| UNCLOS | A code of maritime law approved by the United Nations in 1982 that authorizes, among other provisions, territorial waters extending 12 nautical miles (22km) from shore and 200-nautical-mile-wide (370-km-wide) exclusive economic zones |
| Unitary | characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority |
| Women's enfranchisement | this was significant because this gave the women the right to vote. In the US, women were give the right to vote in 1920 |
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