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| Antecdent boundries | A boundary line established before an area is populated |
| Centrifugal forces | Forces that tend to divide a country |
| Centripetal forces | Forces that tend to unite or bind a country together |
| Colonialism | the expanison and perpetuation of an emprie |
| Commonwealth of independent states | Confederacy of indepedent states of the former soviet union that have united because of thier common economic and adminstrative needs |
| Compact state | a state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center us relatively equal in all directions |
| Confederation | a form of an internation organization that bring several autonomous states together for a common purpose |
| Domino theory | The idea that polticial destabilization in one country can lead to collaspe of poltical stability in neighboring countries, starting a chain reaction of collaspe |
| East/West divide | Geographic seperation between the largely democratic and free-market countries of western europe and the americans from the communist and socialist countries of eastern europe and asia |
| Electoral college | a certain number of electors from each state proportional to and seemingly respresentative of that states population. Each elector chooses a canidate believeing they are representing constituency's choice. The candidate who recieves higher proportion of electoral votes within a state recieves all the electoral votes for that state. |
| Electoral vote | The decison of a particular state elector that represents the dominant views of that electors state |
| Elongated state | a state whose territory is long and narrow in shape |
| European Union | International organization comprised of western european countries to promote free trade among members |
| Exclave | a bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from it by the territory of a different state |
| Federlism | A syste of government in which powe is distributed among certain geographica territories rather than concentrated within a central government |
| Fragmented state | a state that is not a contiguous whole but rather separated parts |
| Frontier | An area where bordees are shifting and weak and where people of different cultures or nationalities meet and lay claim to the land |
| Geometric boundary | Poltical boundries that are defined and delimited by straight lines |
| Geopolitics | The study of the interplat between political relations and the territorial context in which they occur |
| Gerrymandering | The designation of voting districts so as to favor a particular polticial party or candidate |
| Heartland theory | Hypothesis proposed by halford mackinder that held that any political power based in the heart of eurasia could gain enough stregth to eventually dominate the world |
| Imperialism | The perpetuation of a colonial empire even after it is no longer politically soveregin |
| International Orgainization | An alliance of two or more countries seeking cooperation with each other without giving up eithers autonomy or self-determination |
| Landlocked state | A state that is completey surrounded by the land of othe states, which gives it a disadvantage in terms of accessibility to and from international trade routes |
| Law of the sea | Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concering the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceas and their resources |
| Lebensraum | Hitlers expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "Living space" for the german people |
| Microstate | a state or territory that is small both in population and area |
| Nation | Tightly knit group of indiviuals sharing a common language, ethnicity, religio, and other cultural attributes |
| Nationalism | a sense of national pride to such an extent of exalting one nation above all others |
| Nation-state | a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homeogeneity and unity |
