| A | B |
|---|
| Annexation | the formal act of acquiring territory |
| Antarctica | continent with many claims to the land |
| Apartheid | rigid segregation policy in south africa until 1992 |
| balkanization | dividing a country into smaller states |
| Border landscape | exclusionary (keep people out) inclusionary = encourage trade |
| Boundary Disputes | Sudan, India/Pakistan, India/Bengladesh |
| Boundary origins | antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic |
| Boundary type | natural, geometric, ethnographic |
| buffer state | a small neutral state between two rivals |
| capital | seat of government for a territory |
| centrifugal | move away from center (forces that push people out of a country) |
| centripetal | force toward the center |
| city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city (vatican city) |
| colonialism | The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country |
| confederation | A more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority. |
| conference of Berlin 1884 | The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was a meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization. |
| core/periphery | Core-periphery theory is based on the notion that as one region or state expands in economic prosperity, it must engulf regions nearby |
| decolonization | the action of changing from colonial to independent status |
| devolution | The transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, esp. by central government to local or regional administration. |
| domino theory | The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, |
| eez | Under the law of the sea, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. It stretches from the seaward edge of the state's territorial sea out to 200 nautical miles from its coast |
| enclave | A portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. |
| exclave | A portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another or others, as viewed by the home territory |
| ethnic conflict | z |
| E.U. | z |
| Federal | z |
| Forward Capital | z |
| frontier | z |
| geopolitics | z |
| gerrymander | z |
| global commons | z |
| heartland theory | z |
| rimland theory | z |
| immigrant states | z |
| international organization | z |
| iron curtain | z |
| irredentism | claiming land of other countries on grounds of common culture |
| israeli/palestinian conflict | z |
| landlocked | z |
| law of the sea | z |
| Halford Mckinder | a founding father of geopolitics and the heartland theory |
| manifest destiny | z |
| median line principle | z |
| microstate | z |
| ministate | z |
| nation | z |
| national iconography | z |
| nation state | z |
| nunavut | z |
| Raison d'etre | z |
| reapportionment | z |
| regionalism | z |
| religious conflict | z |
| reunification | z |
| satellite state | z |
| self determination | z |
| shatterbelt | z |
| sovereignty | z |
| state | z |
| stateless ethnic groups | z |
| stateless nation | z |
| suffrage | z |
| supranationalism | z |
| territorial disputes | z |
| territorial morphology (shapes of states) | z |
| territoriality | z |
| theocracy | z |
| treaty ports | z |
| UNCLOS | z |
| unitary | z |
| ussr collapse | z |
| womens enfranchisement | z |
