Unit 3 Political
Vocabulary
Frontier
City-state
State
Territory
Compact state
Fragmented state
Elongated state
Prorupted state
Perforated state
Exclave
Enclave
Landlocked state
Micro-state
Stateless nation
Irredentism
Self-determination
Terrorism
Sovereignty
Nation
Ethnicity
Race
Country
Forward capital
Primate city
Gerrymandering
Colonialism
Imperialism
Manifest destiny
Devolution
Supranationalism
Geopolitics
Centripetal forces
Centrifugal forces
Balkanization
Confederation government
Federal government
Unitary government
Segregation
Apartheid
Decolonization
Iron Curtain
Cold-War
Reapportionment
Demarcation borders
Delimitationborders
Definition borders
Racism
Genocide
Ethnic cleansing
Buffer state
Satellite states
Balance-of-Power
Gateway state
Economic Enterprise Zones
Shari’a Laws
Majority-minority
Territoriality
Marketization
Democratization
Command economy
Market economy
Mixed economy
Fragmentation
Nationalism
Blockbusting
Key Concepts to Know
1. Compact state (examples)
2. Example of Fragmented state
3. Example of Elongated state
4. Example of Prorupted state
5. Example of Perforated state
6. Example of Landlocked states (disadvantages)
7. Micro-states (examples and challenges)
8. Stateless nations (examples)
9. Physical boundaries (examples)
10. Mountains as boundaries (examples)
11. Water as a boundary (examples)
12. Deserts as boundaries (examples)
13. Cultural boundaries
14. Linguistic boundaries
15. Religious boundaries
16. Geometric boundaries
17. Origin of boundaries
18.Types of Boundary disputes (positional/definitional, territorial, resource/allocational, and functional/operational)
19. Border landscapes
20. Nation-state concept (examples)
21. Immigrant state
22. Heartland (Mackinder)
23. Shatter belt
24. Rimland Theory (Nicolas Sypkman)
25. Unitary statevs Federal states (advantages & disadvantages)
26. Core/periphery
27. Forward Capital (example)
28. Question of Taiwan and Hong Kong as a state
29. Impact of globalization on state sovereignty
30. Tragedy of the Commons
31. Law of the Sea
32. Supranationalism (Types, examples, and affect on state)
33. Break up the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
34. Economic Enterprise Zone (examples and significance)
35. Changing boundaries of Europe
36. Partition of India
37. Stacked gerrymandering
38. Wasted vote
39. Fragmented gerrymandering
40. Territory Morphology: Identify the shapes of states and explain the effects on culture, government, and social unity.
41. 3 Stage Evolution of boundaries
42. 4 Basic Human stocks
Genetic Boundaries (Richard Hartshorne): Antecedent, Subsequent, Superimposed, and Relic.
43. Devolution: Types and examples
44. Sea power Doctrine (Alfred Mahan)
45. Organic Theory (Friedrich Ratzel)
46. World Order: bi-polar, multi-polar, and unilateral
47. Containment Theory
48. Domino Theory
49. Forces of change: globalization, democratization, and religious politics