Political Patterns and Processes Flashcards

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to political geography, including states, nations, boundaries, governance, and devolution.

A _ consists of a permanent population, defined borders, a sovereign government, and is also recognized by other states.

State

A is that group of people with that shared culture and language, the history of homeland. They might have self determination as well.

Nation

A homogenous ethnic group within a defined territory is a __.

Nation State

Having multiple nationalities within one defined territory is considered a __.

Multinational State

A is a nation split between two or more states separated by defined borders.

Multistate Nation

A _ is a nation without an officially recognized government or defined boundaries.

Stateless Nation

An region is located within a state that has a lot of autonomy.

Autonomous

A region is an area that has a moderate degree of autonomy, but the larger state will force its will on it when they want to move in.

Semi Autonomous

_ is the authority of a state to govern itself, including domestic and internal affairs.

Sovereignty

___ is the right or desire for a nation or group of people to govern themselves.

Self Determination

___ is where an area is occupied and a colony is being set up, exploiting it economically.

Colonialism

__ is the policy or ideology of exerting influence or power over another place, but it's not always through physically occupying it.

Imperialism

A _ boundary still exists today, but it's no longer active.

Relic

A boundary is where a foreign state comes in and creates boundaries for different people.

Superimposed

An boundary is created back in time before the cultural landscape existed.

Antecedent

A _ boundary is a straight line.

Geometric

A boundary develops along the cultural landscape.

Subsequent

A boundary focuses on dividing ethnic groups or linguistic or due to conflict.

Consequent

_ is the connection that people have to their culture, their economic systems to the land, and essentially, how you communicate ownership of an area.

Territoriality

_ are regions caught between these external forces.

Shatter Belts

__ is the use of political, cultural, economic power, and you're trying to influence or control another country.

Neocolonialism

are strategic areas that one has to pass to reach a destination, especially when dealing with trade on the global level.

Choke Points

_ is the redistribution of voting districts.

Gerrymandering

_ is a form of governance where the central state or national government controls the majority of stuff.

Unitary

is a form of governance that shares power between regional and national governments.

Federal

is the transfer of power from the national government to a regional government.

Devolution

_ is when a person or group starts identifying more as their own ethnic group than as citizens of the state.

Ethnic Separatism

_ is when the government attacks an ethnic group of people and the goal is to push them out of the state or to remove them.

Ethnic Cleansing

__ is centered around trying to reunite parts of a nation that are actually between two boundaries or two different states or two different borders.

Irredentism

___ is a force that pulls people together.

Centripetal

___ is a force that pushes people apart.

Centrifugal

__ is a form of nationalism where the nation there is being defined in the terms of ethnicity.

Ethnonationalism

__ is when the government there no longer is functioning, so it's no longer able to actually control the area.

Failed state