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| Political Geography | the study of the political organizations of the world |
| state | a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government |
| territoriality | (Robert Sack) the attempt by and individual or group to affect, influence, or control people, phenomena, and relationships, by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area |
| sovereignty | having the last say (having control) over and territory-politically and militarily |
| territorial integrity | the right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states |
| Peace of Westphalia | marked the beginning of the modern state and ended 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 |
| mercantilism | in the general sense, associated with the promotion of commercialism and trade |
| nation | a culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory and have political goals (ranging from autonomy to statehood) |
| nation-state | a politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space |
| democracy | the idea that people are the ultimate sovereign-that is the people, the nation, have the ultimate say over what happens within the state |
| multinational state | a state with more that one nation inside its borders |
| multistate nation | when a nation stretches across borders and across states |
| stateless nation | nations that do not have a state |
| colonialism | rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place. |
| scale | representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. |
| capitalism | in the world economy, people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit |
| commodification | the process of placing a price on a good and then buying, selling, and trading the good |
| core | processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology thereby generating more wealth in the world economy |
| periphery | processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology, thereby generating less wealth in the world economy. |
