Political Geography and Processes
A Cultural groups that have no independent political entity
what is a Stateless Nation?
The willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space they claim.
what is territoriality?
boundary created before an area is known or populated.
What is a antecedent boundary?
processes of legally adding territory to a city.
what is anixation?
have their own local and legislative bodies to govern a region with a population that is an ethnic minority in the country>
what is a autonomous region?
A nation that has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states
what is a Multistate nation?
theory that land based power is essential to world domination.
What is the Heartland theory?
A once militarized boundary between east and west Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall.
The transfer of some political power from the central government to subnational levels of government.
What is devolution?
people who have a primary allegiance to a traditional group or ethnicity
what is sub-nationalism?
A country that contains more then one nation.
what is a multinational state?
The catalyst and process resulting in political boundaries of north Africa and the Middle East.
what is imperiolism?
internal boundaries that divide a countries electorate into subnational regions.
What is a voting district?
organized violence aimed at government and civilian targets to promote fear and political goals.
what is terrorism?
A force that divides the citizenry in a country
what is centrifugal force?
A single nation of people that fulfill a qualification of a state.
what is a nation state?
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of interactions.
what is a choke point?
The count of the population every 10 years , to insure national congressional districts have approximately the same number of people.
what is the Census?
unites separate political entities into an over arching system that allows each entity to maintain some degree of soveringty.
what is a federal state?
support of a particular ethic group within a state, especially its national independence or self determination.
what is Ethnonationalisim?
A defined area within a state that has a high degree of separation and freedom from its parent state.
What is super nationalism?
type of political boundary between United States and Canada.
what is a geometric boundary?
drawing of boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power.
what is Gerrymandering?
movement to unite people who share a language or other cultural elements but are divided by natural boundaries.
what is Irredentism?
a force that unites a countries population.
what is a centripetal force?