Chapter 8 Vocab

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  1. 5. World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision-making process
  2. 8. The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government
  3. 10. government based on the the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state
  4. 12. Legally a term encompass sing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of languages, ethnicity, religion and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within very few states
  5. 14. state State with more than one nation within its border
  6. 16. forces that tend to unify a country
  7. 19. Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people
  8. 23. boundary boundaries that follow an agreed-upon feature in the physical geographic landscape
  9. 26. of Westphalia Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years War, Europes most destructive internal struggle over religion
  10. 28. Economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit
  11. 29. Theoretically a recognized a member of the modern state system possessing a formal sovereignty and occupied by people who see themselves as a single, united nation. Most nations and states aspire to this form.
  12. 31. nation Nation that stretches across borders and across states
  13. 33. Processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher technologies, and higher salaries
  14. 34. The capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve goals through its diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means
  15. 35. Rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place. Mostly refers to European colonialism
  16. 36. A vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below and airspace above , dividing one state territory from another
  17. 37. forces that tend to divide a country
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  1. 1. Geography A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and the formal political practice on the Earth's surface
  2. 2. A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states
  3. 3. Redistricting for advantage, or the practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible
  4. 4. integrity The right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incurrsion from other states
  5. 6. A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community
  6. 7. geopolitics Process by which geopolitics deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians
  7. 9. theory A geological hypothesis by Halford Mackinder that proposed that any political power based off the hearth of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world
  8. 11. representation System wherein each representative is elected from a territorial defined district
  9. 13. district Packed districts where the majority of the population is from the minority
  10. 15. A nation state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state
  11. 17. Associated with the promotion of commercialism and trade. More specifically a protection policy of European states during the 16th to 18th centuries that promoted a state's economic position in the contest with other countries. The acquisition of gold and silver in the maintenance of a favorable trade balance was central to the policy
  12. 18. A country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory
  13. 20. Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization
  14. 21. boundary Political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or an arc
  15. 22. Processes that incorporate low levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; and generate generate less wealth than core processes in the world economy
  16. 24. Places where core and periphery process are both occurring; places that are explored by the core but in turn exploit the periphery
  17. 25. The process through which something is given monetary value
  18. 27. nation Nation that does not have a state
  19. 30. organization A venture involving three or more nation states involving formal political economic and/or cultural corporation to promote shared objectives. An example is the European Union
  20. 32. In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority population are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts
  21. 38. (state) A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests - yet allows these various entities to retain identities