Defining States
This is when two or more states claim the same territory
What is Contested Territory?
The idea that some national governments are better able than others to provide the leadership for peace and prosperity.
What is National Regime?
These are the two types of boundaries.
What are physical and cultural boundaries?
These are the legislative boundaries that are periodically redrawn due to change of population and migration.
What are electoral boundaries?
These are two European military strategies used for Military cooperation.
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This is when two or more states claim to be the only legitimate government.
What is Contested Sovereignty?
This type of national regime has citizens elect their leaders and allows for them to run for office.
What is a Democracy?
This is the type of boundary that coincides with significant features of the natural landscape.
What is a Physical Boundary?
This is the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power.
What is gerrymandering?
This is the most important economic alliance.
What is the European Union (EU)?
The most important global organization that seeks to promote international cooperation.
What is the United Nations (UN) ?
What are Democracy and Autocracy?
This is the type of boundary that follows the distribution of cultural characteristics.
What is a Cultural Boundary?
This type of gerrymandering put a concentrated amount opposition supporters into a few districts.
What is excess vote?
What is balance of power?
This is the principle that states on the border of the ocean are able to claim vast areas of the water for defense and control.
What is the Law of the Sea?
This measures the effectiveness of a government and it's perceived legitimacy to govern.
What is the State Fragility Index?
What is water?
The person that gerrymandering was named after.
Who is Elbridge Gerry?
The two reasons that countries cooperate internationally.
What are economic and military reasons?
This was the most important criteria for the redraw for the map of Europe.
What is language?
This is the area that has the most fragile states clustered in it.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This is the type of cultural boundary that separates speakers of different languages, religions, and ethnicities.
What is an Ethnic boundary?
This is a state that does not allow the gerrymandering practice.
What is Iowa?
This is the most dramatic step taken toward integrating Europe's nation-states into a regional organization.
What is the Eurozone?