AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Chapter 8: Political Geography

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