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100
What is Norway's state morphology?
Elongated
100
Which Canadian province has been associated with separatism?
Quebec
100
Which continent did Europe arbitrarily superimpose boundaries upon?
Africa
100
What is a municipality?
A city/local government
100
Which Canadian territory was created in 1999 so that the Inuits would have more autonomy?
Nunavut
200
Name four nation-states.
Poland, Lesotho, Swaziland, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Iceland, Lebanon, Portugal, etc.
200
The Tamil Tigers aim to achieve separatism from which country?
Sri Lanka
200
Which leader in the early Nineteenth Century inspired various European countries to consolidate their semi-feudal armies into a national military?
Napoleon
200
Provide two centripetal and two centrifugal forces.
-petal=positive -fugal=negative
200
Describe the difference between unitary/centralized and federal/decentralized governments.
Unitary/centralized feature the national government with all of the power, with the subdivisions just acting as extensions of the national government. Federal/decentralized governments feature the national government with sovereign authority, but the political subdivisions also have relative amounts of autonomy.
300
Name four multinational states.
Anywhere that's not a nation-state.
300
Some people from this syncretic religious group want to create a nation-state called Khalistan in India. This is an example of separatism and nationalism.
Sikhs
300
Describe: -The Domino Effect -Containment -Policy of Nonalignment
-Domino: one country after another would fall to communism -Containment: communist countries must be quarantined so that the ideology won't spread -Nonalignment: some peripheral countries (3rd World) tried to remain neutral during the Cold War so that they could receive aid and incentives from both the USA and the USSR.
300
Provide 3 subnational terrorist groups.
ISIS/ISIL, Basques, IRA, etc.
300
Small, local governments are generally run by __________________ which consistent of elected officials who each take on certain tasks. They often legislate in accordance with a mayor.
Commissions
400
Name three multistate nations.
Kurds, Romani, Korean, etc.
400
Some people within the Yugoslavian government aimed to perform acts of genocide to wipe out this dominant ethnic group of Kosovo.
Albanians
400
Name 7 countries created following the fall of the USSR.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia
400
Describe the functions of 4 UN affiliate groups.
AWV
400
What is Balkanization? Identify three countries in the Caucuses region affected by balkanization.
A country breaking apart due to ethnic issues. Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Armenia, Iran, Georgia
500
Uzbekistan's western boundary with Kazakhstan best relates to which type?
Geometric
500
People give their allegiance to traditional groups or nations that are smaller than the overall state.
Subnationalism
500
Name the creator behind each of these three theories: -Heartland -Rimland -Organic
-MacKinder -Spykman -Ratzel
500
The study of how geographical space (relationships between different shapes, different function of states, and the different patterns of states) affect global politics.
Geopolitics
500
Unitary governments have begun to acknowledge the power and importance of states, regions, provinces, etc. They have some power, but most important thing are in the hands of the national government (monetary policy, foreign policy, etc.). This is called_______________________.
Asymmetric/Regional Federalism/Regional Autonomy
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