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| The study of the political organization of the planet. |
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| Leadership and institutions that make policy decisions for a country. |
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| Efforts to control pieces of the earth's surface for political and social ends. |
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| The collection of political beliefs, values, practices, and institutions that the government is based on. |
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| Invisible lines that mark the extent of the state's territory. |
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| A zone where no states exercises power. |
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| Physica features that separate states. |
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| Water boundaries set in the middle of the water. |
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| Boundaries set by ethnic differences. |
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| When a country falls apart into several smaller ethnically based countries. |
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| Zones of great cultural complexity. |
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| Striaght, imaginary lines that separate states. |
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| Term used to describe the shapes, size, and relative locations. |
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| Distance from the center of the states to any boundary is similar. |
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| States that have a long narrow shape. |
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| States have serveral discontinuous pieces of territory. |
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| State tha completely surrounds another. |
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| Shape of states created by boundaries. |
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| The significance of size and shape as a factor in national well-being. |
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| Staes lacking ocean frontage and surrounded by other states. |
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| The sense of unity with fellow citizens. |
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| When states argue over where the border actually is. |
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| Arise over the ownership of a region. |
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| Dispute over natural resources. |
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| When neighboring states cannot agree on policies. |
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| Stable, long lasting organizations that help turn political ideas into policies. |
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| Group of people that is bound together by a common political identity. |
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| State whose territory is occupied by a distinct nation. |
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| Binational / Multinational states |
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| States occupied by more that one one nation. |
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| States with more that one core area. |
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| When capital city serves as a model for national objectives, especially for economic development and future hopes. |
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| Method used to select leaders. |
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| study of how the spatial configuration of electoral districts and voting patterns reflect and influence socia and political affairs. |
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| District boundaries drawn in strange ways in order to make it easy for the canidate of one party to win an election in that district. |
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| Minority / Majority districting |
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| Rearranging districts to allow minority representative to be elected. |
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| All of the power is in the central government |
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| Spreads power among many sub-units. |
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| divides power between central government and sub-units. |
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| The transfer of some important powers from central government to sub-governments. |
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| Supranational organiztions |
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| Cooperating groups of nations that operate on either a regional or international level. |
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| Unifying people of a state. |
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| Destabilize the government and encourage the country to fall apart. |
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| Nationalities within a country demand independence. |
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| share a well-developed sense of belonging to the same culture. |
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| the tendency for an ethnic group to see itself as a destinct nation with independence. |
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| Economic inequalities destabilizing nation-states. |
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| Distance, remoteness, and peripheral locations promote devolution. |
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| the study of the spatial and territorial demesions of power relationships within the gobal political-territorial order. |
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| Theorized that a state compares to a bioogical organism with a life cycle from birth to death, with a predictable rise and fall of power. |
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| Eurasia holds the resourses to dominate the globe. |
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| The rim of Eurasia has the power to dominate. |
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| Competetion between two superpowers to dominate. |
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| Responsible for making peacekeeping decisions. |
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| Regional organization that promises to redifine the meaning of sovereignty. |
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| Ecourages states to pool their sovereignty in order to gain political, economic, and social clout. |
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| Controls money supply in Europe |
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| Growing commonalities among nations. |
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| "Third wave" of democratization |
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| The defeat of dictorial or totalitarian rulers |
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| Has socialist principles of centralized planning amd state ownership. |
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| Control from central government. |
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| Does not allow control from central government |
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| Describes the state's re-creation of a market in which propery, labor, goods, and services can all function in a competitive environment to determine their value. |
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| The transfer of state owned property to prive ownership. |
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| Divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity. |
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| Politicization of religion |
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| Use of religious principles to promote political ends. |
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