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| is the study of the political organization of the planet |
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| is a reference to the 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 that the government is based on |
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| invisible lines that mark the extent of a state's territory |
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| is a geographic zone where no state exercises power |
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| are easy to use, both on reality and maps |
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| typically set in the middle of the water |
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| the boundaries between some states that are set by ethnic diffrences |
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| a country falling into several smaller ethnically based countries |
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| zones of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups |
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| are straight, imaginary lines |
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| term that describes the shpaes, sizes of states |
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| the distance from the center to any boundaries is about same |
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| compact state with a large projecting extension |
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| have a long and narrow shape |
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| have several discontinous pieces of territory |
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| a state that completely surrounds another |
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| small bits of territory that lie on coasts seperated from the state by the the territory of another state |
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| are landlocked within another country |
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| land spaces of just a few square miles |
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| a relative place to the location |
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| states lacking water border |
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| the ability of the state to carry out actions in its borders |
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| a sense of unity with fellow citizens |
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| when states argue about where the border is |
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| over the ownership of a region |
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| involve natural resources |
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| when neighboring states agree on policies |
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| stable, long lasting organizations that help to turn political ideas into policy |
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| a group of people that is bound together by a common political identity |
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| a state whose territorial extent coincides with that occupied by a distant nation or people |
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| a state that contains more than one nation |
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| are people without a state |
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| expending outward along their frontiers |
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| states with more than one core |
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| if the capital serves as a model for national objectives |
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| methods used in country to select leaders |
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| is the study of how the spatial configuration electoral districts |
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| attempts to redraw boundries to improve the chances of its supporters to win seats |
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| rearranging districits to allow a minority representive to be elected |
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| concentrates all policy making powers in one central geographic place |
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| spreads the power among subunits |
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| divides th epower between the central government and subunits |
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| the transfer of some important powers from central govenrments to subgov |
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| supranational organizations |
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| groups of nations that operate together |
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| bind together the ppl of a state |
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| nationalities within a country demand an independance |
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| an ethnic group shares 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 distinct nation |
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| forces that destabilize a nationstate |
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| devolutionary events that most often occur on the margins of a state |
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| geographer in 19th century, theorized that a state compares to biological organism |
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| states that eurasia holds the resources to dominate |
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| states that eurasias rim holds the key to global power |
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| competition between two superpowers |
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| responsible for making war decisions |
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| an organization that promises to redefine the meaning of sovereignty |
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| is a process that encourages states to pool their sovereignty |
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1. trade and economic matters
2. justice and home affair
3. common foreign and security policy |
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| control of the money supply |
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| the power to set basic intrest rates |
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| growing commonalities among nations |
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| the defeat of dictatorial rulers |
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| socialist principles of centralized planning in state honorship are fading from existance |
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| allows for significant from the central gov |
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| opposite of market economy |
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| the transfer of state owned property to private ownership |
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| divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity |
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| politicization of religion |
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| the use of religious principles to promote political ends |
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