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Legally adding land area to a city in the United States, or legally adding land area to a country in the world.
Ex. Poland with Germany and Russia or Chicago with urban sprawl. |
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| It is the largest land mass in the world not part of a sovereign state. Territorial claims are suspended on Antarctica. |
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Laws previously in South Africa that separated different races into different geographic areas.
Ex. The US-Mexican border is a desert with people speaking Spanish and English on both sides. |
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A small geographic area that could not be organized in to a larger state due to conflicting ethnicities.
Ex. Yugoslavia in to several new nations. |
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| Definitional Boundary Disputes |
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focus on the legal language of the treaty for the boundary.
Ex. Native American treaties |
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| Locational Boundary Disputes |
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is when the definition is not in dispute but the interpretation is.
Ex. Saudi Arabia and Yemen/Oman/UAE |
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| Operational Boundary Disputes |
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is a dispute of how a boarder should function.
Ex. Iraq and Iran with the Persian Gulf |
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| Allocational Boundary Disputes |
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occurs over a resource on a boundary between two countries.
Ex. Iraq and Kuwait 1991 |
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| Antecedent Boundary Origin |
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is how the boundary evolves over time.
Ex. Western Europe and Eastern Europe |
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| Subsequent Boundary Origin |
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a boundary that was created before today's cultural landscape.
Ex. the US/Mexican border |
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| Superimposed Boundary Origin |
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are created through long term processes.
Ex. Africa |
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forced on inhabitants to solve a problem or conflict.
Ex. Pakistan/India |
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| Natural/Physical Boundary Type |
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a physical environment is used as a boundary.
Ex. The four corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico |
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| Ethnocentric/cultural Boundary Type |
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is used when cultural difference divides a region and is used as a reference to create a boundary.
Ex. France and Spain with the Pyrenees Mts. |
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a boundary drawn by a grid system.
Ex. Armenia and Azerbaijan. |
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| Boundary Process (definition) |
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through a treaty, or legal like document, sets longitude and latitude.
Ex. Germany after world war one with the treaty of Paris |
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| Boundary Process (delimitation) |
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drawing the boundary on a map.
Ex. Europeans dividing up Africa for themselves |
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| Boundary Process (demarcation) |
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the boundary using steel posts.
Ex. the US/Mexican border at points with a fence. |
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a state created between two warring or hostile regions to ease tensions between the two bordering regions.
Ex. Poland after World War II |
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something that is owed, which provides ongoing services. In the national account, or to firms, its made up of durable investment goods, normally summed in units of money. Basic: land + physical structures + equipment. the idea is used in models and in the national accounts.
Ex. Man labor |
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Moving or directed away from a center or axis.
Ex. A country that imposes higher taxes. |
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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support from a state.
Ex. People that tend to speak the same language will more likely live in the same area. |
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A sovereign state compromising a city and immediate hinterland.
Ex. Sparta, Athens, and Corinth in Greece. |
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| Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
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| a group of empowered states or communities, usually created by treaty but often later adopting a common constitution. |
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| granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional, or local level. |
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regions that hold seats in Parliament or Congress.
Ex. great Britain, there are many electoral regions that serve the people In Parliament. |
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country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country.
Ex. Lesthoso |
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| Portion of a state that is completely surrounded by another state. This is significant because conflict may arise in this region of a state. |
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A war between ethnic groups, often as a result of ethnic nationalism. There have been lots of ethnic conflicts throughout the last century.
Ex. Rawnda, conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsis. |
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a political and economic community of twety-seven member states with supranational and intergovernmental features, located in Europe.
Ex. The EU is an example of a supranational organization that promotes economic and political stability in the member states. |
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| An internal organizationof a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. This model can be seen in the US. The idea of devolution plays in this as well, because a lot of power has been devolved to local governments, like in the US. |
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| a zone separeating two states in which neither state exercises political control. The significance is that the area between the two states is neutral |
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| The study that analyzes geography,tory, and social sciencewith reference to spatial politics and patterns at various scales. And Example would be seen in Nigeria. Nigeria has had a history of military rule that has captialized on the oil, found in the Delta region. |
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| Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. tThis is used in politics to give an advantage to the political party in power. |
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the position that a state should be annexed because of ethnicity of prior historical possession.
Ex. Cyprus, Turkey claims it because throughout most history a Turkish state has controlled the island, but the now independent former British colony half of Cyprus claims the Turkish part of the Island because of a cultural and ethnic difference from the Turkish. |
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a country with no direct access to a sea or ocean.
Ex. Jordan, Moldova, Blarus, Bolivia, Chad. |
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a state with a very small land area or population
Ex. Vatican City, Monaco, Singapore. |
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a homogenous ethnic group.
Ex. Italians, Kurds, Azeri, Polish. |
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a state that is populated by a homogeneous ethnic group.
Ex. Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan, Denmark. |
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