Terms, Vocabulary, Concepts Rubenstein 50. Iron Curtain 1. Anocracy 51. Irredentism 2. Autocracy 52. Military Alliances 3. Balance of Power 53. Nation 4. Boundary 54. Nationalism as a Centrifugal Force 5. City-State 55. Nationalism as a Centripetal Force 6. Colonialism 56. NAFTA 7. Colony 57. Physical vs. Geometric State Boundaries 8. Compact State 58. Political Geography 9. Democracy 59. Reapportionment 10. Elongated State 60. Redistricting 11. Federal State 61. Regional Alliances 12. Fragmented State 62. Relic Boundaries 13. Fronteir 63. Rimland Theory 14. Gerrymandering 64. Separatism 15. Landlocked State 65. States’ Rights 16. Microstate 66. Subsequent vs. Antecedent Boundaries 17. Multiethnic State 67. Supernationalism 18. Multinational State 68. Territorial Organization 19. Nation-State 69. Territoriality 20. Perforated State 70. Theocracies 21. Prorupted State 71. Transportation and Communication as a 22. Self-Determination Centripetal Force 23. Sovereignty 72. Unifying Institutions as a Centripetal Force 24. State Additional Terms 25. Terrorism 73. Absolute Monarchy 26. Unitary State 74. Admiralty Law 75. Annexation Barron’s Flashcard 76. Antecedent boundary 27. Antarctica 77. Aristocracy 28. Asymmetric Federalism 78. Border Disputes: Allocational 29. Boundaries and Political Stability in Africa 79. Border Disputes: Definitional 30. Boundary Disputes 80. Border Disputes: Locational 31. Challenges to the Modern State 81. Border Disputes: Operational 32. Colonialism 82. Buffer state 33. Confederation 83. Cold War 34. Conference of Berlin 84. Command Economy 35. Cores and Capitals 85. Commonwealth of Nations 36. Country Shapes 86. Communism (Marxism) 37. Devolution 87. Compact States 38. Domino Theory 88. Confederal system 39. East/West Divide 89. Consequent boundaries 40. Electoral College 90. Constitutional Monarchy 41. Electoral Geography 91. Containment, Policy of 42. European Union 92. Core area 43. Evolution of the State 93. Core-periphery 44. Exclaves and Enclaves 94. Cultural boundary 45. Forward Capitals 95. Debt peonage 46. Geopolitics 96. Decolonization 47. Heartland Theory 97. Democratization 48. Imperialism 98. Disputes: positional, territorial, resource, 49. International Agreements functional Additional Terms Continued 137. Proletariat 99. Economic force 138. Raison d’être 100. EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) 139. Reapportionment 101. Eastern European Steppe 140. Relic boundaries 102. Empire States 141. Republics 103. European Constitution 142. Reunification 104. Expatriate 143. Satellite state 105. Five Year Plans 144. Schengen Plan 106. Geometric boundary 145. Seawolves 107. Globalization 146. Security Council 108. Head of State 147. Separation of Power 109. House of Lords 148. Separatist Movement 110. House of Commons 149. Shatter belts 111. International recognition 150. Stateless Nation 112. International Whaling Commission 151. Suffrage 113. Irredentism 152. Superimposed boundary 114. Israel/Palestine 153. Supernational Organization 115. Judicial Union 154. Territorial Morphology 116. Landwolves 155. Treaty ports 117. Law of the Sea 156. Tyeanyy of the Map 118. Manifest destiny 157. United Nations 119. Market Economy 158. UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on 120. Marketization the Law of the Sea) 121. Median-line principle 159. USSR collapse 122. Ministate 160. Value-Added Tax (VAT) 123. Mixed economy 161. Women’s enfranchisement 124. Monetary policy 125. Monetary union 126. Multicore state 127. National iconography 128. Nationalism 129. Nunavut 130. Open-dorder policy 131. Peerage 132. Planned Economy 133. Politicization of religion 134. Power Vacuum 135. Prime Minister 136. Privatization