Nations, etc.
a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government.
What is a State?
An Economic system in which individuals, corporations, and states own land and produce goods and services that are exchanged for profit.
What is capitalsim?
The territories of individual states are separated by international boundaries, referred to as ________.
What is borders?
_________ is concerned with how geographical circumstances influence international relations and the distribution of power.
What is geopolitics?
An institution created by three or more states to promote cooperation.
What is a supranational organization?
A group of people with a sense of cultural connection and a shared identity that is attached to a territory
What is a Nation?
To understand any state, we must also understand its position within the global economy. This is the basis for Immanuel Wallerstein's' theory known as:
What is World Systems Theory?
Re-drawing political districts for advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
The _________ school of thought sought to explain why and how certain states became powerful.
What is German?
A diplomatic supranational organization whose aim is maintaining world peace.
What is the United Nations?
A group of people with a sense of cultural connection and a shared identity that is attached to a territory
What is a multinational state?
Europe exported its concept of states and sovereignty though the process of expanding their territory and gaining access to new people and resources. This process is known as ________
What is colonialism / imperialism?
_________ boundaries occur over the sea or ocean.
What is maritime?
The ____________ school of thought sought to offer political advice by identifying places and regions that were particularly strategic for maintaining and projecting power.
What is British/American?
A supranational organization established in 1949 to combat the spread of communism and who's alliance is of a military nature.
What is NATO? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
A nation with a state of its own also stretches across borders into other states.
What is a multistate nation?
________ production methods include higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology—processes that generate wealth in the world economy.
What is core?
A mode of government that combines a general (national) government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two (or more).
What is Federalism?
War that lasted from 1946 to 1991 which has, in large part, created the economic and geopolitical landscape that the world is still operating in, even though the war is over.
What is the Cold War?
An economic supranational organization consisting of 38 European Countries who share open borders and economies.
What is the European Union?
When a nation of people exist within other states but do not have a state of their own.
What is a stateless nation?
________ production methods incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less sophisticated technology—processes associated with a less powerful position in the world economy.
What is periphery?
A boundary that occupies the atmosphere above the land area of a nation is known as ______
What is airspace?
World order in which one state is in a position of global dominance.
What is unilateralism?
The failed supranational organization, created after WWI, that was the prototype for what becomes the UN after WWII.
What is the League of Nations?