Political Boundaries
Geographic are with a permanent population, defined borders, sovereign government, and is recognized by other states.
Examples of internal boundaries.
What are Congressional Districts, County Boundaries, City Boundaries, School Districts, Voting Districts, etc.
When an area has control over its political affairs independent from an external authority.
What is Autonomy?
Transfer of power from a national government to regional government.
What is Devolution?
(literally the title of the category)
Form of governance that shares power between the central/national and regional level.
What is Federalism?
What is a Stateless Nation?
Boundary dispute over location of the boundary and land ownership.
What is a Locational Boundary Dispute?
The use of political, cultural, or economic power to influence/control other countries.
What is Neocolonialism?
Physical Geography of a state
Divisions between cultural groups
Political instability
What are Factors of Devolution?
These states commonly develop a very strong national identity due to most if not all power being located centrally.
What are Unitary States?
Geographic area located within a state that has a high degree of autonomy from the state.
What is an Autonomous Region?
A type of boundary to settle conflict between cultural, ethnic, and/or political groups which change with the development of the cultural landscape.
Process by which a country becomes independent of the colonizing country.
Challenged by citizens of a state as a result of devolutionary factors.
What is Sovereignty?
The disadvantages of federal states.
Implementation of specific policy changes typically takes longer, More state inefficiencies, Greater chance for devolution
(No idea how to phrase this one as a question lol)
What is a Multinational State?
Causes the following impacts:
-Representatives do not reflect beliefs of the people
-Decreases competition in political races
-Weakens democratic process
What is Gerrymandering?
The tendency to establish and defend a specific geographic area that connects to their culture.
The Basques, Catalans, and Kurds are examples of a certain type of factor that can lead to devolution.
What are examples of Ethnic Separatism?
Kind of population typically within unitary states.
What are Homogenous Populations?
Hong Kong, which has partial control over internal affairs but still is under the Chinese government's control.
What kind of boundaries did the Berlin Conference place on Africa?
What are Superimposed Boundaries and Geometric Boundaries?
An example of a shatterbelt region.
What is Eastern Europe during Cold War, Korea during Korean War, Balkans, Middle East, etc.
Russia's goal of taking over Ukraine in order to unite itself displays a certain devolutionary factor.
What is Irredentism?
China and France
Examples of Unitary States.