A state that is made up of two or more separate pieces
What is a fragmented state?
100
The idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then more would follow and fall to communism
What is the Domino Theory?
100
Union of 27 democratic member states of Europe
What is the European Union (EU)?
100
The generally poorer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
What is a third world country?
100
A country with two or more nationalities within its borders
What is a multinational state?
200
A state that is longer by one direction than the other
What is an elongated state?
200
States can be viewed as entities that need to consume other territories to survive
What is Organic Theory?
200
A trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
200
The largely democratic and free-market states of the U.S. and Western Europe
What is a first world country?
200
A state whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
What is a nation-state?
300
A state that has a territory completely surrounding it
What is a perforated state?
300
Theory that claimed whichever state controlled resource-rich Eastern Europe could eventually dominate the world.
What is Heartland Theory?
300
Established at the end of WWII to foster international security and cooperation (192 member states); precursor was the League of Nations
What is the United Nations (UN)
300
The communist and state-planned countries of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China
What is a second world country?
300
A politically organized territory administered by a sovereign government, with a permanent population, and recognized by the international community
What is a state?
400
A state whose distance from the geometric center is similar
What is a compact state?
400
Theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest
What is Rimland Theory?
400
A military alliance of western democracies that is based on the agreement to mutual defend in response to an attack by any external party
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
400
Economic division between the wealthy countries of Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia, and the generally poorer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
What is the north/south divide?
400
A tightly knit group of people sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes
What is a nation?
500
A state that has an area that extends from a more compact core
What is a prorupted/protruded state?
500
Theory that stated a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces would often be under persistent stress and often fragmented by aggressive war
What is Shatterbelt Theory?
500
Confederacy of states of the former Soviet Union, possessing coordinating powers in the realm of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)?
500
Geographic separation between the largely democratic and free-market states of Western Europe and the Americas from the communist and socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia
What is the east-west divide?
500
A nation that transcends teh borders of two or more states