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Antecedent boundary: a boundary that existed beforethe cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area...
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Boundary: vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface
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Boundary definition: The written legal description of a boundary between two countries or territories.
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Boundary delimitation: The translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation.
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Boundary demarcation: The actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers.
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Centrifugal force: the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body, a force that divides people and countries
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Centripetal force: An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
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Colonialism: exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one
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Core area: the portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus.
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Cultural-political boundary: boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity
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Devolution: the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
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Electoral geography: The study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections.
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Enclaves: a territory that is surrounded by another political unit of which it is not a part.
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Ethnonationalism: The identification and loyalty a person may feel for his or her nation.
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Exclaves: A bounded (nonisland) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state.
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Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): a zone of exploitation extending 200 nautical miles seaward from a coastal state that has exclusive mineral and fishing rights over it
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Federal state: An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
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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.
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Gateway state: a state that absorbs and assimilates cultures and traditions of its neighbors without being dominated by them.
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Geometric boundary: Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.
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Geopolitics: the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state
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Gerrymander: an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
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Globalization: The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.
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Heartland theory: 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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International sanctions: Actions taken by countries against others for political reasons, either unilaterally or multilaterally.
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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.
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Median-line principle: lines made to distribute water ways when states are within 200 miles of each other
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Microstate: A state or territory that is small in both size and population.
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Multicore area: A state that possesses more than one core or dominant region, be it economic, political or cultural.
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Nation: the people who live in a nation or country
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Nation-state: A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
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Nationalism: love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
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New World Order: A description of the international system resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union in which the balance of nuclear terror theoretically no longer determined the destinies of states.
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Organic theory: The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include all stages of life.
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Physical-political boundary: political boundary that separates territiories according to natural features in the landscpae, such as mountains, rivers or deserts.
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Political culture: The widely shared beliefs, values, and norms concerning the relationship of citizens to government and to one another.
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Political geography: the subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface
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Relict boundary: A political boundary that has ceased to function but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape.
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Rimland theory: Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.
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Sovereignty: the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
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State: a politically organized body of people under a single government
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Subsequent boundary: a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes...
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Superimposed boundary: a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)..., A political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. Usually ignores pre-existing cultural-spatial patterns, such as the border that now divides North and South Korea.
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Supranationalism: a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
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Truman proclamation: Policy of the United States With Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf
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Unitary state: An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
