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Political Geography
The branch of geography that deals with the boundaries and policies of states.
State
A group of people in a specific area with political organization.
Sovereignty
The right to govern their own people
Nations
A group of people with a shared language and culture
Nation-State
A state determined by the shared identity of the people within it.
Multi-State Nation
A nation that lives across multiple states.
Irredentism
A country laying claim to territory that formerly belonged to it.
Multinational state
A state in which multiple nations live within.
Autonomous
Functioning by itself.
Semi-Autonomous
Functioning by itself, with assistance from a larger state
Stateless Nation
A nation that does not belong to any particular state.
Territoriality
An attempt to lay control to a certain area by a certain group of people.
Colonialism
The process of imposing values and belief systems from the conquering people upon the people that already live there.
Neo-Colonialism
The process of holding social, economic, and political influence in an area, especially former dependents
Choke Point
A particularly strategic and small point of which trade is important.
Shatterbelts
Regions of cultural diversity and political instability.
Self-Determination
The right to decide who is governing them.
Imperialism
Extending a country's power through foreign influence or military control.
Devolution
The movement of power from a central government to smaller regional governments.
Defining
Using treaties to establish a boundary between two countries through physical markers or longitude and latitude.
Delimit
Drawing the lines of a boundary on a map.
Demarcated
Creating physical boundaries on land
Administer
How borders are maintained and how people and goods cross them.
Antecedent Boundaries
Boundaries created before people have settled.
Subsequent Boundaries
Boundaries created after people were settled.
Consequent Boundaries
Boundaries created as a result of the patterns of how people have settled.
Superimposed
Boundaries that were not created in regard to nations and ethnicities.
Geometric Boundaries
Boundaries created using straight lines or according to mathematical concepts.
Relics
Boundaries that used to be important but don't matter anymore.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Anything two hundred miles off the coast line of any country can be used as an exclusive economic zone, under the condition that the environment of the sea is maintained and free passage is granted to innocent ships.
Exclusive Economic Zone
An area where the sovereign state has exclusive rights for research and exploitation.
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