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Political geography |
A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and spatial organizations of governments |
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State |
A politically organized territory that is administered as a sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. |
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Territory |
An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state |
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Territorially |
In political geography a country’s or more local community’s sense of property and attachment towards its territory as expressed by a determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended |
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Sovereignty |
A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social economic and political should rest within the legitimate rulers of independent states |
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Territoriality integrity |
The right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states |
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Mercantilism |
In general sense, associated with the promotion of commercialism him and trade |
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Peace of West Phalia |
Piece negotiated in 1648 two and the 30 years war, Europe’s most destructive internal struggle over religion.the treatments contain new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security. |
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Nation |
Legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions now trend to refer to a tightknit group of people possessing bonds of languages, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within a few states |
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Nation-State |
Theoretically, a recognized member of a modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by people who see themselves as a single,united nation |
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Democracy |
Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state |
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Multinational state |
State with more than one nation within its borders |
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Multistate nation |
Nation that stretches across borders and across states |
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Stateless nation |
Nation that does not have a state |
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Stateless nation |
Nation that does not have a state |
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Colonialism |
Rule by an autonomous power over his subordinate an alien people and a place. |
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Stateless nation |
Nation that does not have a state |
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Colonialism |
Rule by an autonomous power over his subordinate an alien people and a place. |
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Scale |
Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization |
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Stateless nation |
Nation that does not have a state |
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Colonialism |
Rule by an autonomous power over his subordinate an alien people and a place. |
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Scale |
Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization |
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World systems theory |
Refers to the inter-original and transnation division of labor which divide the world into core countries, semi periphery countries, and the Periphery countries |
