Shapes of States
A country that is situated totally within a different country.
This organization unites countries in Southeast Asia.
What is ASEAN?
This type of country has several different national groups (each with their own identity) within it's overall borders.
(Hint: United Kingdom)
What is a multinational state?
The region that hosts conflict due to its strategic military location and because at least 30% of the world's trade passes through this.
What is the South China Sea?
A straight line drawn on a map.
(Hint: The 49th parallel)
What is a geometric border.
A piece of a country, that is separated by another country or water, making it disconnected from the larger contiguous piece of the country. (Hint: Alaska in relation to the bigger piece of the United States.)
What is an exclave?
What is supranationalism?
After this battle, the Ottoman Empire defeat Serbia and begin ruling the area
What is the Battle of Kosovo Polje?
India and Pakistan are in conflict over this region.
What is Kashmir?
A border that existed because of physical features BEFORE human influence.
(Hint: The Rio Grande that separates the U.S. & Mexico.)
What is an antecedent border?
These types of countries are at a commercial and strategic disadvantage because of their lack of access to water.
What are landlocked states?
What is NATO?
World War II continued to build tension in Yugoslavia because the Nazis collaborated with certain groups of people and targeted other groups, which does this.
What is deepens divisions amongst groups of people and nations?
China is doing this in the Spratly Islands to establish more control over them.
What is creating artificial islands and increasing their military forces there.
This exists when neighboring states disagree on HOW to operate (the policies in place) at their border area.
This type of state most likely will suffer from distance decay (when something is far away or spread out, it's hard to manage and keep united).
What is an elongated state?
What is the European Union?
Antarctica is this type of region that has not been fully explored and has harsh weather conditions.
What is a frontier region?
This group has tried (& failed) to establish their own nation after WWI, once the Ottoman Empire fell.
Who are the Kurds?
This is the 17-mile fence around the U.S. Naval Base on Cuba.
These types of countries are harder to defend because they are separated by water or another country.
What are fragmented states?
A separatist movement wants to gain this from a larger region.
What is independence or autonomy?
The U.N. Law of Sea impacts micro-states by increasing their power in this type of zone.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
This group has been a stateless nation (a name for a group of people without land to legally occupy) since Israel was established.
Who are the Palestinians?
A reason a country might want to annex a neighboring country which has culturally similar people.
What is to gain more resources?