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Political Geography |
A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and spatial organizations of governments |
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State |
A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. |
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Territory |
An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state. |
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Territoriality |
In political geography, a country’s or more local community’s sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended. |
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Sovereignty |
A principal of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. |
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Territoriality Integrity |
The right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states. |
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Mercantilism |
In a general sense, associated with the promotion of commercialism and trade. |
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Peace of Westphalia |
Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years’ War, Europe’s most destructive internal struggle over religion. The treaties contained new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security. |
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Nation |
Legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within very few states. |
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Nation-State |
Theoretically, a recognized member of a modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. |
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Democracy |
Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state. |
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Multinational State |
State with more than one nation within its borders. |
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Multistate Nation |
Nation that stretches across borders and states. |
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Stateless Nation |
Nation that does not have a state. |
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Colonialism |
Rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place. |
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Scale |
Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance; indicated on a map as a bar, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement. |
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World Systems Theory |
Refers to the inter-regional and transnational division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries, and the periphery countries. |
