Chapter 8

Question 1

What is a state?

Answer 1

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Question 2

Define sovereignty.

Answer 2

Independence from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Question 3

What are microstates?

Answer 3

States with small land area.

Question 4

What is a city-state?

Answer 4

Sovereign state comprising of a town and a surrounding countryside.

Question 5

What is a colony?

Answer 5

Territory legally tied to a sovereign state.

Question 6

Define colonialism.

Answer 6

Effort by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic and cultural principles on such territory.

Question 7

What is imperialism?

Answer 7

Control of a territory already occupied.

Question 8

What characterizes a compact state?

Answer 8

The distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.

Question 9

Define prorupted state.

Answer 9

An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.

Question 10

What is an elongated state?

Answer 10

States with a long, narrow shape.

Question 11

Define fragmented state.

Answer 11

Includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.

Question 12

What is a perforated state?

Answer 12

A state that completely surrounds another.

Question 13

Define landlocked state.

Answer 13

Lacks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by several other countries.

Question 14

What is a frontier?

Answer 14

A zone where no state exercises complete political control.

Question 15

What is a unitary state?

Answer 15

Places most power in the hands of central government officials.

Question 16

Define federal state.

Answer 16

Allocates strong power to units of local government within the country.

Question 17

What is Gerrymandering?

Answer 17

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Question 18

Define balance of power.

Answer 18

A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances.

Question 19

What is a boundary?

Answer 19

Invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.

Question 20

Define nation.

Answer 20

A group of people that share common cultural characteristics and identify as a cohesive group.

Question 21

What is an exclave?

Answer 21

An enclave that is a territorial political extension of another state.

Question 22

What is a forward capital?

Answer 22

Capital city built by a state to achieve a national goal.

Question 23

Define irredentism.

Answer 23

The attempt by one country to provoke coups or separatist movements in another country.

Question 24

What is a supranational organization?

Answer 24

Organization that tries to further economic and/or political cooperation.

Question 25

Define stateless nation.

Answer 25

Nation without a territory to call its own.

Question 26

What is a buffer state?

Answer 26

Country that lies between two other states but remains neutral in the conflict between them.

Question 27

Define antecedent boundary.

Answer 27

A boundary that existed before human settlement of the area.

Question 28

What is a geometric boundary?

Answer 28

Created by using lines of latitude and longitude.

Question 29

Define physical boundary.

Answer 29

Created by natural features.

Question 30

What is an ethnographic boundary?

Answer 30

Created by cultural factors such as language, religion, or ethnicity.

Question 31

What is an enclave?

Answer 31

An enclosed territory with a foreign territory around it.

Question 32

What is the Law of the Sea?

Answer 32

Law signed that establishes territorial limits for most countries as 12 nautical miles and fishing rights at 200 miles.

Question 33

Define democratization.

Answer 33

The process by which a state's government becomes increasingly democratic.

Question 34

What are civil divisions?

Answer 34

Primary governmental/administrative divisions of a country.

Question 35

What is a capital?

Answer 35

The city or town that is the official seat of government in a state.

Question 36

What are the High Seas?

Answer 36

Areas of the ocean that are 'international' and not controlled by any state.

Question 37

Define terrorism.

Answer 37

The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

Question 38

What is the United Nations?

Answer 38

A supranational organization formed in 1945 to promote peace, security, and international cooperation.

Question 39

Define multinational state.

Answer 39

A sovereign state that is viewed as comprising two or more nations.

Question 40

What was the Berlin Conference?

Answer 40

European powers decided how to divide up Africa.

Question 41

Define Communism.

Answer 41

A communist state is a political entity that is governed by a single party that claims to uphold the principles of communism, seeking to eliminate capitalism

Question 42

Define Core.

Answer 42

A "core" refers to a region or country that holds significant economic power, characterized by high levels of wealth, innovation, advanced technology, and dominant control over global trade.

Question 43

What is devolution?

Answer 43

Devolution" refers to the process of transferring power from a central government to regional or local governments within a state, essentially giving more autonomy to smaller political units within a country.

Question 44

What is the EEZ?

Answer 44

The economically exclusive zone refers to the 200 miles of sea offshore of a state and has rights to such as explore, exploit, conserve, and manage the natural resources of.

Question 46

What is the UNCLOS?

Answer 46

It is an international treaty that defines the rights and responsibilities of nations regarding the use of the world's oceans