8.3 Vocab

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Annexation

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Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

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Anocracy

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A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types

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Autocracy

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A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people

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Disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocation)

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Definitional Boundary Dispute. conflict over the language of the border agreement in a treaty or boundary contract. Locational Boundary Dispute. (positional) disagreement between neighboring states over policies to be applied to their common border. Often induced by differing customs regulations, movement of nomadic groups, or illegal immigration or emigration. (functional) disagreement between states over the control of a surface area. (resource) conflict over the use of resources created or complicated by a political boundary

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origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)

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Antecedent: a political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings. Subsequent: a political boundary that developed contemporaneously with the evolution of the major elements of cultural landscape. superimposed boundary. a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. Relic Boundaries are the old Natural or Artificial reference points used to separate two countries . e.g.China wall, the boundary between East and West Germany, Boundaries of Mughal Empire etc.

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process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)

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Definition Boundary Process. Phase in which the exact location of a boundary is legally described and negotiated. Delimitation Boundary Process. Phase in which a boundary's definition is drawn onto a map. Demarcation is the act of creating a boundary around a place or thing.

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type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)

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A physical boundary is a naturally occurring barrier between two areas. Rivers, mountain ranges, oceans, and deserts can all serve as physical boundaries. Also called an ethnographic boundary, a cultural boundary is a boundary line that runs along differences in ethnicity, such as language and religion. Geometric boundary is straight line that serves as political boundary that is unrelated to physical and /or cultural differences.

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Commonwealth

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an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth.

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Confederation

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When a group of people or nations form an alliance, it is called a confederation, allowing each member to govern itself but agreeing to work together for common causes

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Coup d’etat

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a sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force.

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Electoral regions

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different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions

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Ethnic conflict

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An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. While the source of the conflict may be political, social, economic or religious, the individuals in conflict must expressly fight for their ethnic group's position within society

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Federal state

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An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government

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Fronteir

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A zone separated two states in which neither state exercises political control

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Geopolitics

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politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors.

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Gerrymander

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The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

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Global commons

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the earth's unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere, and space.

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Immigrant states

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Wip

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Landlocked

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A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea

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Manifest destiny

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the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

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Reapportionment

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Reapportionment is the process re-distributing seats in the House of Representatives, or other legislative body, according to the population in each state.

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Representative government

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An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns. Those elected meet to debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society, instead of the people voting directly on laws and other debates.

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Territorial disputes

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A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more territorial entities or over the possession or control of land, usually between a new state and the occupying power.

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Territorial morphology

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refers to the size, shape and relative location of a state (country) This affects the potential for communications and conflict with neighbors

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Theocracy

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a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

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Unitary state

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An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials