Territories, Borders, and the Geography of Nations
Spatial Conflict
International Political Geography
Geography of Local and Regional Politics
What is Political Geography?
100
A tiny country, such as Vatican City and San Marino.
What is a microstate?
100
This spatial conflict was fought between The United States and The Confederate States in 1861.
What is the Civil War?
100
Theory created by Sir Halford Mackinder that says he who rules the heartland of Asia, rules the world.
What is the Heartland Theory?
100
A group of people with a common political identity.
What is a nation?
100
The spatial analysis of political phenomena and processes.
What is political geography?
200
A country that completely surrounds a smaller state.
What is perforated state?
200
Any dispute over land ownership.
What is territorial dispute?
200
An international organization linking Canada, the U.S., and Mexico that promotes free trade.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA?
200
A country whose population posses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity.
What is a nation state?
200
A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by the international community.
What is a state?
300
A boundary drawn after a population has settled in an area and does not pay attention to the social, cultural, and ethnic compositions of the populations they divide.
What is a superimposed boundary?
300
This war was ended by the treaty of Paris.
What is the Revolutionary war?
300
An international organization that has joined together for military purposes.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO?
300
Political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed units of land.
What is territorial organization?
300
A political boundary that corresponds with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers.
What is a physical boundary?
400
A force that binds countries together.
What is a centripetal force?
400
The expansion and perpetuation of an empire.
What is colonialism?
400
A central goal of U.S. diplomacy and international organizations, such as the United Nations.
What is democratization?
400
The delegation of legal authority from a central government to lower levels of political organization.
What is devolution?
400
Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people.
What is Lebensraum?
500
The right of a nation to govern itself autonomously and thus to determine its own destiny.
What is self-determination?
500
The perpetuation of a colonial empire even after it is no longer politically sovereign.
What is imperialism?
500
The idea that if one country collapses, then that can lead to the political stability in neighboring countries to collapse.
What is the domino theory?
500
A system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government.
What is federalism?
500
A state whose government is either believed to be divinely guided or a state under the control of a group of religious leaders.