Shapes of States
Examples: Indonesia and Malaysia
A country with several noncontiguous pieces of territory, separated by water or another country, which often leads to security and defense issues.
What is a FRAGMENTED state?
Disagreement over the placement of a boundary is a ___________ dispute.
What is a LOCATIONAL dispute?
When 3 or more states cooperate in order to promote shared objectives, usually about defense, economy, and culture.
What is SUPRANATIONALISM?
Fences are an example of ______ borders.
What is a HARD border?
This type of state is at a commercial and strategic disadvantage because it lacks direct access to a sea or an ocean.
What is a LANDLOCKED state?
Example: South Africa
A country that completely surrounds a smaller state.
What is a PERFORATED state?
An operational boundary dispute arises when neighboring states cannot agree on ___________.
What are POLICIES that apply to the border area?
An organization originally formed as a military alliance against communism.
What is NATO?
Examples: The US/Canada border along the 49th parallel AND the border between North & South Korea along the 38th parallel.
What is a GEOMETRIC border?
Example: Japan
A largely similar population that shares a common language, culture, and history.
What is a NATION-STATE?
________ is easiest to govern, because the distance from the center to any border is relatively equal.
Example: Poland
What is a COMPACT state?
There is conflict in this sea because it is a strategic military location AND because 30% of all worldwide trade pass through this area.
This is where the Law of Sea becomes most complex.
What is the South China Sea?
Unsuccessfully trying to establish a nation since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, the _______ are a group of people living in areas of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran for the past 1,000 or so years.
Who are the KURDS?
Example: The Rio Grande between US/Mexico.
A natural border that existed before humans lived in that area.
What is an ANTECEDENT border?
Example: United Kingdom
A state that contains 2 or more national groups, where no single group is dominant demographically, culturally, and politically.
What is a MULTINATIONAL state?
Example: Thailand
An almost compact state, but has a leg that extends outward in one direction.
What is a PRORUPTED state?
Honors: This territory hosts a conflict (due to resources and location) between India and Pakistan.
What is KASHMIR?
This European nation voted to withdraw from the European Union in 2016.
What is the UNITED KINGDOM? (Brexit)
To help prevent wars, reduce business costs with a single state-economy, and create easier travel across open borders, the ______ ________ is a group of 27 European states who have joined together.
What is the EUROPEAN UNION?
______ is an ethnic/cultural term
______ is a political term
What is NATION and STATE?
This state shape may suffer the most from the effects of distance decay because it is long and narrow.
What is an ELONGATED state?
Honors: This mountainous region has caused conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
What is Nagorno-Karabakh?
_______ is the alliance set up to promote economic growth and peace in Southeast Asia.
What is ASEAN?
The US and Canada must work together and agree on inspection policies when people and trucks cross their border. This is an example of an ___________ dispute.
What is OPERATIONAL dispute?
Example: Kaliningrad is an exclave of Russia.
An exclave is a state that is geographically _____________ from the main part of the country by surrounding territory/another state.
What is SEPARATED?