Political Geography
What term means a community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits.
What is a nation.
The process of extending a countries power through military power or colonization
What is imperialism?
An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel.
What is a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
Where state and central government share power
what is a federal state?
Occurs when a sovereign state moves from a non-democracy to a democracy
What is Democratization.
What kind of map is used to show the spatial organization of the countries and territories on the entire globe at a given point in time.
What is a political map.
The fragmentation of a state into smaller, often hostile, political entities.
What is Balkanization?
a nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.
What is a subsequent boundary?
A system where decisions on legislation are made directly by citizens rather than elected representatives
what is direct democracy?
What is globalization?
Give an example of a nation-state.
Possible answers: Iceland, Finland, Japan, Slovenia, Poland, North and South Korea.
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries that benefits the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
Boundaries that that no longer functions as an international border.
Ex: Berlin Wall
What is a Relic Boundary?
A form of governance where all decisions and powers are centralized, with little to no authority granted to regional governments
Joining a *blank* can reduce the states self autonomy
what is a supernatural organization?
Give an example of a stateless nation.
What is the Kurdish.
Relatively small countries situated between larger, more powerful nations.
What is a buffer state?
a nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.
What is a satellite state?
A governance model where political power is vested in representatives chosen by citizens, often accompanied by a constitution outlining the structure and principles of government
what is a constitutional republic?
The calculated use of violent acts against civilians and symbolic targets to publicize a cause, intimidate a civilian population, or affect the conduct of the government
What is terrorism.
Explain autonomous and semiautonomous regions.
What is a autonomous region is a section or territory of a country that has a degree, or autonomy of self-government in its decision making. Semiautonomous regions have some degree of, but not complete self-governance.
Armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962
What is the Algerian War of Independence?
The most critical UNCLOS zone: in which a state has the sole right to exploit, develop, manage, and conserve all water resources lying 200 nautical miles (nm) beyond the land.
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
A form of government where the executive branch is dependent on the confidence of the legislative branch, creating a mutual relationship
what is a parliamentary system?
What are the three different scales of terrorism.
What are international, domestic, and state.