Unit 4 (Political Geography) Review

A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states

• Supranationalism

• Unitary states

• sovereignty

• Shatterbelt Regions

A narrow, strategically significant area where trade could be easily blocked or controlled

• pivot point

• Shatter point

• narrow point

• choke point

A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state

• Unitary states

• Republic

• Democracy

• Federal State

a boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language

• superimposed boundary

• relic boundary

• demarcated boundary

• consequent boundary

a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals

• Sovereignty

• shatterbelt

• Terrorism

• Legitimacy

The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.

• colonialism

• Devolution

• Imperialism

• Nation State

The entrenchment of the colonial order, such as trade and investment, under a new guise.

• neocolonialism

• colonialism

• Imperialism

• Redistricting

the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

• Neocolonialism

• nation-state

• self-determination

• Irredentism

A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests-defense, foreign affairs, and the like-yet allows these various entities to retain their own identities and to have their own laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres.

• Federal states

• Unitary State

• National State

• State Nation

a former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape features

• Subsequent Boundary

• relic boundary

• superimposed boundary

• Maritime Boundaries