Unit 4 assessment

Frontier
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political
control.

City-state
A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

State
A body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with
the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher
authority

Territory
An area that is occupied and defended by an animal or group of animals

Compact state
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary
significantly.

Fragmented state
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.

Elongated state
A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.

Prorupted state
A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension, leading away from
the main territory.

Perforated state
A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state

Exclave

A part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and
surrounded by foreign territory.

Enclave
Definition
(n.) an enclosed district, region, or area inhabited by a particular group of
people or having a special character

Landlocked state
A state that is completely surrounded by the land of other states, which
gives it a disadvantage in terms of accessibility to and from international
trade routes

Micro-state
A state that encompasses a very small land area

Stateless nation
A nationality that is not represented by a state.

Irredentism
The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by
people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within
a neighboring state.

Terrorism
Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by
creating panic among an enemy population

Sovereignty
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs
by other states

Nation
A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation.

Country

A nation or area of land which is politically controlled by on

Forward capital
Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually
near an international border, it confirms the states determination to maintain
its presence in the region in contention.

Primate city
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people
as the second-ranking settlement.

Gerrymandering
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the
party in power.

Colonialism
Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political,
economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

Imperialism
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically,
socially, and economically.

Manifest destiny
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was
destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

Devolution
An effort to shirft responsibility of domestic programs to the states in order
to decrease the size &activites of the fed. govt; some states have attempted
to shift responsibilities further to local govts

Supranationalism
a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural
cooperation to promote shared objectives

Geopolitics
An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products

Centripetal forces
forces that tend to unite or bind a country together

Federal government
A form of government in which powers are divided between a central
government and several local governments

Unitary government
a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single
central agency Segregation
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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