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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 had 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 of state |
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Territoriality |
In political geography, a country’s or more local community’s sense of property and attachment towards 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 form 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 |
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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 |
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Nation state |
Theoretically, a recognized member of a modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by people who see themselves as a single, united state |
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Democracy |
Government based on the principles 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 across states |
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Stateless nation |
Nation that does not have a state |
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Colonialism |
Rules by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place |
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Scale |
In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance |
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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 |
