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15 Cards in this Set
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Geometric boundaries |
Political boundary defined and limited and occasionally to marketed as a straight line or arc |
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Physical political boundaries |
Political boundary defined as the limited and occasionally do marketed by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape such as a river or the crest Ridge is of a mountain range |
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Heartland theory |
Geo political hypothesis proposed by British geographer Harold Mac and her during the first two decades of the 20th century that any political power base in the heart of your age I could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world |
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Critical Geo politics |
Process by which geopoliticians desk instruct and focus on explaining the underlying special assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians |
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Unilateralism |
World order in which one state is in a position of dominance which allies following rather than joining the political decision making process |
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Supranational organization |
Venture involving three or more nation states involving formal political economic political and or cultural cooperation to promote shared objects objectives of the European Union is one such organization |
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deterritoriallizarion |
Term used to describe economic social and cultural geography that look less like maps of the states globalization our communities and like undermined the states traditional territory authority |
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reterritorialiazation |
States are moving to solidify control over his territory for example solidifying their borders due to concern over immigration |
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Compact state |
State that possesses roughly circular or oval or rectangle territory in which the distance from geometric Center relatively equal in all directions example: Kenya Uruguay |
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Pro rupted state |
A type of territorial shape that exhibits narrow elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory example Mozambique and Thailand |
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Elongated state |
State whose territory is as long and narrow in shape example Norway and chili |
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Fragmented state |
A state that is not continuous hole but rather separated parts example Indonesia |
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Perforated state |
A state whose territory completely surrounds that another state example South Africa |
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Enclave |
A country or part of country that is surrounded by another example Vatican City is an enclave of rome |
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Exclave |
Part of country that is or almost completely separated from the main part of the country example Alaska and Hawaii for the USA |
