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

One of the Case Studies we just learned about in class. .

What is (Various Answers will be accepted)?

100

A sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of maritime resources that stretches 200 nautical miles from the coast

What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?

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 birder that can still be seen today on the landscape , but no longer functions as a boundary.

What is a relic boundary?

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 by an outside power that does not pay attention to the social, cultural, and ethnic compositions of the populations they divide.

What is a superimposed boundary?

300

This maritime conflict in the South China Sea involves ownership of these uninhabited islands.

What is the Spratly Islands?

300
An international organization that has joined together for military purposes.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO?
300

A system of government where there is a centralized power that makes decisions for the entire state. Regional governments have little to no power.

What is a Unitary Government?

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 is the term used to describe the border between North and South Korea.

What is the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ?

400

A line that is drawn in the water that is equidistant from each competing party to settle a question of sea resource access

What is the median-line principle?

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 boundary created using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs.

What is a geometric boundary?

500

The term used to describe a narrow passageway particularly in maritime movement (today), where bottle-necks and conflict can occur.

What is a choke-point?

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.
What is a theocracy?
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