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The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
Devolution
When the state moves to solidify control over its territory. (example: solidifying its borders to prevent unwanted immigration)
Reterritorialization
Forces that tend to divide a country-such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological
Centrifugal
Term encompassing all the citizens of a state, however, usually refers to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes
Nation
A state that possesses formal sovereignty and is occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. It exsists almost nowhere
nation-state
Forces that tend to unify a country-such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives and common faith.
Centripetal
Political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape-such as a river or the crest ridges of a mountain range
Physical-political
Political boundary defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc
Geometric boundary
Economic model wherein people, corporations and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit
Capitalism
A nation that stretches across borders and across states (Kurds)
Multistate-nation
Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; and generate less wealth than core processes in the world-economy.
Periphery
A political system with a central government that controls common interests-defense, foreign affairs, and the like-yet allows local entities to retain their own identities and to have their own laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres
Federal
World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision-making process
Unilateralism
Processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery processes in the world-economy
Core
A nation that does not have a state (Palestinians)
Stateless Nation
A venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. (EU, NATO, NAFTA)
Supranational Organization
A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state
Unitary
Promotion of commercialism and trade practiced by European states during the 16th-18th centuries. Aquisition of gold and silver and the maintenance of a favorable trade balance
Mercantilism
The principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independant states
Sovereignty
Created by Immanuel Wallerstein, three-tier structure (core, periphery, semi-periphery) linking economic activities of developing world to developed world
World-systems Theory
The movement of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states.
Deterritorialization
Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery
Semi-periphery
A state with more than one nation within its borders. (U.S.)
Multinational State
A politically organized defined territory, with a sovereign government, a permanent population and is recognized by other states
State
Treaty negotiated in 1648 recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarentees of security
Peace of Westphalia