Chapter 8
The largest political unit, the formal term for a country.
State
The type of border is usually created while the cultural landscape is evolving.
Subsequent boundary
The integration of markets, beliefs, values, and politics.
Globalization
The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs.
Sovereignty
The right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence.
Self-determination
A international agreement that sets the rules for how countries use and share the world’s oceans.
U.N. convention on the law of the sea
Places that have their own local and legislative bodies to govern a region with a population that is an ethnic minor within the entire country.
Autonomous regions
This type of boundary is heavily guard and discourages crossing.
Militarized boundary
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction.
Choke point
Combining like minded votes in one district to prevent them from affecting elections in others.
Packing
Companies that conduct business at a global scale.
Transnational corporations
The social and physiological effects of faster movement of information over space in a shorter period of time.
Time-space compression
A willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space they claim.
Territoriality
The drawing of boundaries for political districts by the part in power in order to increase their power.
Gerrymandering
The advocacy of full political separation from the larger group along cultural, ethnic, tribal, or governmental lines.
Ethnic separatism
A place located between 2 very different/contentious regions.
Shatterbelt
A broader concept that includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by district conquest.
Imperialism
This paved the way for colonization of Africa or what Europeans regard as “effective occupation“ of the continent.
Berlin conference
The support for the political interests of a particular ethnic group within a state.
Enthnonationalism
The dispersing a group into several districts to prevent a majority.
Cracking