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15 Cards in this Set
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Geometric Boundary
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Political boundary defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc
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Physical Political Boundary |
Political boundary defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape- such as a river or the crest ridges of a mountain range
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Heartland Theory
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A geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by british geographer Harold Mackinder during the first two decades of the twentieth century, that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia Could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world |
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Critical Geopolitics
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Process by which geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians
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Unilateralism
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World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making process
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Supranational Organizations
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A venture involving three or more nation sates involving formal political, economic, and cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. The European Union is one such organization. |
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Deterriotorialization
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A term used to describe the economic, social, and cultural geographies that look less and less like the maps of states. Globalization, networked communities, and the like undermine the states traditional territorial authority
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reterriotorialization
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States are moving to solidify control over its territory. For example solidifying their borders due to concern over immigration
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Compact state
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A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions. ex: Poland Kenya Uruguay |
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Prorupted State
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A type of territorial shape the exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory. ex:mozamique and thiland |
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Elongated state
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A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape ex: Norway and chile
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Fragmented state
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A state that is not contiguous whole but rather separated parts ex: Indonesia
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Perforated state
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A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state ex: south Africa
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Enclave
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A country or part of a country that is surrounded by another ex: Vatican City is an enclave of rome
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Exclave |
A part of a country that is or almost completely separated from the main part of the country ex: Alaska and Hawaii |
