chapter 8 textbook

Question 1

State

Answer 1

Politically organized territory with a permanent population , a defined territory, and a government… also must be recognized as a state by other states

Question 2

Territoriality

Answer 2

The process by which such units (territories) come into being

Question 3

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 3

The event in European history that marks the formal beginning of the modern state system

Question 4

Nation

Answer 4

Traditionally understood to be a group of people who think of themselves as one based on a sense of shared culture and history who seek some degree of political territorial autonomy

Question 5

Nation state

Answer 5

Politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space

Question 6

Democracy

Answer 6

Ppl are sovereign

Question 7

Multinational state

Answer 7

A state with more than one nation inside its boarders

Question 8

Multistage nation

Answer 8

When a nation stretches across boarders and across states

Question 9

Stateless nations

Answer 9

Some nations die not have a state .. ie Palestinians

Question 10

World systems theory

Answer 10

View the world as much more than the sun if the worlds states

1) world economy has one market and a global division of Labor
2) although the world has multiple states, almost everything takes place within the contest if the world economy
3) World economy has a 3 their striction : core periphery and semi periphery

Question 11

Commodification

Answer 11

Process of placing a price on a good or service je idea and then trading that idea

Question 12

Centripetal vs centrifugal

Answer 12

Forces that Unify vs divide within a state

Question 13

Devolution

Answer 13

Movement of power downwards from the central government to regional governments within the state

Question 14

Reapportionment

Answer 14

The process by which districts are moved according to population shifts so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people

Question 15

Majority minority districts

Answer 15

Packed districts in which a majority of the population is from a minority

Question 16

Gerrymandering

Answer 16

Describes redistricting for advantage

Question 17

Boundary

Answer 17

B/w states, cuts through rocks below and sky above

Question 18

Geometric boundaries

Answer 18

Come from grid systems (ie lat and long)

Question 19

Physical political boundaries

Answer 19

Follow a feature if natural landscape

Question 20

Critical geopolitics

Answer 20

Intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about geographical circumstances and places — these ideas influence and reinforce their political behaviours and policy choices and those behaviours and choices then affect what happens a and how most people interpret what happens

Question 21

Supranational organization

Answer 21

Entity composed of three or more states that forces an association and forms an administrative structure for mutual benefit and in pursuit of shared goals