Nations
The political framework that defines how states interact with each other in the international system
What is the modern-state system?
The 3 qualities something has to have to be state
What is sovereignty, territoriality, and recognitions?
This type of boundary is established by different groups who share a common heritage
What are ethnic boundaries?
A state where the distance from the center to any boundary is relatively equal
What is a compact state?
An advantage of a compact state is
What is easier to govern and defend?
A group of people who inhabit a certain place
What is a nation?
This introduces the concept of territoriality
What is sovereignty?
This type of boundaries are established along regional lines that are dictated through accents
What are language boundaries?
A state with a long and narrow shape
What is an elongated state?
An advantage of a perforated state
What is can control access to the enclosed state?
What 2 things connect a nation?
What are culture and history?
In this type of government, two or more states share a common government
What is a multinational state?
This type of boundary are typically divided over absolute locations
What are geometric boundaries?
A compact state with a projecting extension
What is a prorupted state?
What is a challenge of a prorupted state?
What is the extension may be difficult to manage or defend?
This type of nation lives in multiple areas
What is a multistate nation?
A city with sovereignty
What is a city state?
An example of a religious boundary is
What is India and China?
A state that completely surrounds another state
What is a perforated state?
A disadvantage of a landlocked state
What is limited access to global trade routes and maritime resources?
This people group are an example of a nation
What are Native Americans or Palestinians?
An example of a city state
What is Washington, DC or Vatican City?
An example of an ethnic boundary is
What is an eruv?
A state that consists of several disconnected pieces of territory
What is a fragmented state?
A disadvantage of an elongated state is
What is difficult to govern and transport across distant areas?