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The internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over it's people and territory.
What is sovereignty
100
What state Examples: Poland Bhutan Hungary
What is Compact State
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is a branch of political geography that analyzes how states behave as political and territorial systems. In other words, ______________________is the study of how states interact and compete in the political landscape.
What is Geopolitics
100
Are boundaries placed before the cultural landscape developed (in other words, very early in the area's settlement history).
What is Antecedent Boundaries
100
A strong love of and loyalty to one's country, is also a potent unifying force.
What is Nationalism
200
A state in which over 90 percent of the population is comprised of a specific culture or group of people.
What is a nation-state
200
An association of three or more states for mutual benefit
What is Supranational Organizations
200
One country falls many will follow (Cold War)
What is the Domino Theory
200
Are drawn after the cultural landscape is in the place
What is Subsequent boundaries
200
A capital city that is located away from the core region for economic or political reasons in a symbolic gesture.
What is Forward Capital
300
A state that encompasses a very small land area.
What is Microstate
300
Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) Mozambique What state
What is Prorupt or Protruded
300
argued that states are living organisms that hunger for land and, like organisms, want to grow larger and larger by more nourishment in the form of land. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used Ratzel’s theory as justification for invading other states to feed Germany’s organic hunger for land. lebensraum
What is the Organic Theory
300
Old boundaries that are no longer used between countries such as now nonexistent boundary between North and South Vietnam. Another example of a ______________boundary is the Great Wall of China during the third century B.B. as a defensive border to repel invading Mongold from the north.
What is Relic boundaries.
300
A system in which a country declares control over a territory or people outside its own boundaries, usually for economic purposes.
What is Colonialism.
400
An internal organization of a state that places most power in that hands of central government officials. Give one example
What is Unitary state France and or Sweden
400
Can create separatist areas due to distance from center or core Vietnam, Chile, Norway
What is elongated
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Explain the MacKinder (Heartland) Theory
What is The era of sea power was ending and control over land would be the key to power. He believed that Eurasia was the “world island” and the key to dominating the world. Ruling this world island necessitated controlling eastern Europe. Makinder’s theory is lined to the Communists’ effort to dominate eastern Europe and the U.S. “containment Policy” of keeping the Russians from gaining additional territories in the heartland, which the United States believed based on the domino theory, would cause a fall of the world island to the soviets.
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Coastal states can stake their claims to the sea up to 12 nautical miles from their shorelines. However, ships from other countries have the right to pass through these waters. A coastal state can claim up to 200 nautical miles of territory beyond its shoreline as en exclusive economic zone, over which that state has economic control, to explore and mine natural resources that may be in the waters.
What is the Law of the Seas
400
A breakdown or weaning of central authority as the central government ends up giving the minority separatist group some of its demands to keep the peace.
What is devolution
500
Is a type of government that gives local political units (such as states or provinces) within a country a measure of power. Give 1 example (country)
What is Federal State USA Canand Germany Australia Swizerland India
500
A straight line boundary totally unrelated to physical features (think United States) Boundaries
What is Geometric boundary:
500
Explain the Spykman (Rimland) Theory
What is another geopolitical thinker, Nicolas Spykman, build off of Mackinder’s theory and wrote of the “rimland.” In his rimland theory, Spkman defined the rimland to be all of Eurasia’s periphery, not its core of Russia and Central Asia. Therefore, the rimland encompasses western Europe and Southeast, South, and East Asia. He thought it was important to balance power in the rimland to prevent a global power from emerging. His theory is lined to the Vietnam and Korean wars, in which Communists and non-Communists fought for control of peripheral lands in the rimland
500
Richard Harthshorne
Who came up with relict, antecedent. superimposed, subsequent
500
The destablizing situation that arises when an ethnic group supports and seeks to unify with its ethnic population in another country.
What is irredentism
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