Political Entities
State
politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population
Territoriality
the attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land
Japan and iceland
nation-state
Antecedent
a border established before an area becomes heavily settled
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
an area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state’s coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath
people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country
Choke Points
a narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass
The berlin Conference
Super-Imposed boundary
The Berlin Conference was full of colonizers where they created borders for their benefit, ignoring the Africans (which have hundreds of different ethnicities)
Superimposed
a border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force.
Territorial Sea
12 nautical miles from the coastline as the state has complete sovereignty over the water and airspace and gives permission of “innocent passage” of foreign ships
Multinational
A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders
Shatterbelt
a regions here states from, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states
The Balkan Peninsula (located with Greece, serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, and other states)
Shatterbelt
Conflict happens in these countries who are fighting for self-determination (independence) and control
Subsequent
a border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established
What happens when the EZZ of multiple states collide?
Sometimes the median line principal is used to divide the EEZ
Nation
A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity, often all four of these
Neocolonialism
The use of economic, political, cultural or other pressures in order to control or influence other countries. (control through indirect means)
Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium
Consequent
a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, separating groups that have distinct languages, religions, ethnicities, or other traits
Landlocked states
Have no access to coastal borders, they often suffer poorly from this as they have little access to trade routes and often suffers from tariffs from exported goods.
Nation-State
a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation
Imperialism
The use of economic, political, cultural or other pressures in order to control or influence other countries. (control through indirect means)
Panama Canal
Choke point
The panama Canal is that tiny little "bridge" like country between North and South America
administering
a border that is actively managed, enforced, and maintained by a sovereign government
Frontier
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control