A branch of Political Geography that analyzes how states behave as political and territorial systems
What is Geoploitics
100
A politically organized body of people under a single government
What is a Nation
100
Any instance or use of aggressive behavior to assert authority. Normally in a dictatorship or a colony setting
What is Imperialism
100
A zone in which no one state has complete political control.
What is a Frontier
100
Forces that work against uniting a state
What are Centrifugal Forces
200
The theory that a political even in one country can lead to similar events in nearby countries
What is The Domino Theory
200
An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
What is a Nation-State
200
The idea that a colony may become dependent on its colonizer for everything and never be able to gain independence.
What is The Dependency Theory
200
A state that is surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land
What is a Landlocked State
200
Forces that work towards uniting a state
What are Centripetal Forces
300
The thinking that the original inhabitants of a place should be able to regain control of their homeland
What is Irredentism
300
A nationality that does not have a state to call its own.
What is a Stateless Nation
300
A state that is not run by itself but instead run by another state or country
What is a colony
300
The 200 miles from the coastline of a country that they and they alone have exclusive rights to exploit the resources from.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone
300
The decline of power that a state posesses
What is Devolution
400
The theory which compares a state to an organism by saying that they must consume other states to stay "alive" and the ones that don't consume will lose power and be consumed.
What is The Organic Theory
400
A small neutral state or group of states between two large rival states.
What is a Buffer State
400
Exploitation of the resources of a colony by its colonizer
What is colonialism
400
A state who's territory is long and narrow
What is an Elongated State
400
The union of 3 or more states to gain more power. This may mean that they have to give some up.
What is Supranationalism
500
The theory that states that whoever controls Eastern Europe will control the world due to the immense power that the region possesses.
What is The Heartland Theory
500
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
What is a Multi-national State
500
The event in Germany when the European powers at the time divided Africa. Also known as the Congo Conference.
What is The Berlin Conference
500
A boundary that is created by something natural like an ocean, desert or a tree.
What is a Physical Boundary
500
The segregation of a certain group due to a common language or heritage. Like the French Canadians or the Catalan region of Spain