Chapter 6 political Geography

The geographic study of politics and political matters

Centralized authorities that enforce a single political, economic, and legal system within their territorial boundaries, often used with contries

The right of individual states to control political and economic affairs within their territorial boundaries without external interference

A learned cultural response, rooted in European history, that produced the external bounding and internal territorial organization characteristic and modern states.

The building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people based elsewhere, the forceful appropriation of a territory by a distant state, often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for colonial settlers.

A piece of territory surrounded by, but not part of a country

A piece of national territory separated from the main body of a country by the territory of another country.

An independent but small and weak country lying between tow powerful countries

A small, weak country dominated by one powerful neighbor to the extent that some or much of its independence is lost.

Political borders that follow some feature of the natural environment, such as a river or mountain ridge.

Political boundaries that follow some cultural border, such as a linguistic or religious border.

Political borders drawn in a regular geometric manner, often a straight line, without regard for environment or cultural patterns.

Former political borders that no longer function as boundaries.

An independent state that concentrates power int he central government and grants little authority to the provinces.

An independent country that gives considerable powers and even autonomy to it's constituent parts.

The sense of belonging to and self-indentificaitn with a national culture.

Any factor that supports the internal unity of a country.

Any factor that disrupts that internal order of a country.

A group of independent countries joined together for purposes of mutual interest.

Ocurs when states willingly relinquish some degree of sovereignty in order to gain the benefits of belonging to a larger political-economic entity.

Agreements made among geographically proximate countries to reduce trade barriers and to better compete with other regional markets.

regional trading bloc composed to 27 european unions

The study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections.

The drawing of electoral district boundaries in an awkward pattern to enhance the voting impact of one constituency at the expense of another.

The territorial nucleus from which a country grows in area and over time, often containing the national capital and the main center of commerce, culture, and industry.

The influence of the habitat on political entities.

Stronghold areas with natural defensive qualities, useful in the defense of a country against invaders.

1904 proposal by Mackinder that the key to world conquest lay in control of the interior of Eurasia.

The interior of a sizable landmass, removed from maritime connections, in particular, the interior of the Eurasian continent.

The maritime fringe of a country or continent, in particular, the western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent.

An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group.

A political-geographic model suggesting that persistent regional patterns in voting behavior, sometimes leading to separatism, can usually be explained in terms of tensions pitting urban against rural, core against periphery, capitalist against workers, and power group against minority culture.