Characteristics of States
Native American Reservations would be considered this type of region.
What is autonomous?
What the Balkans became to global powers after the fall of communism because of their unstable governments, strategic location, and vulnerability to control.
What is a shatterbelt?
The frequency with which U.S. congressional districts are redrawn.
What is 10 years?
A state has a strong central government with no power given to regions likely practices this form of governance.
What is unitary?
This is the primary devolutionary factor and centrifugal force that is pushing Catalonia and northern Italy toward independence.
What is economic differences?
To be considered a state an area must have borders, a population, be recognized by other states and be this, meaning they govern themselves.
What is sovereign?
States often try to exercise power over these geographically narrow areas that affect global shipping because of their economic value.
What are chokepoints?
In the U.S., this is the name given to first order civil divisions.
In this form of governance, a monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
If the area known as Kurdistan were to hold a vote to establish an independent state, they would be most directly practicing this principle from Unit 4.
What is self-determination?
This historical event reflects the concepts of devolution, nation-states, shatterbelts, ethnic cleansing, and ethnic nationalism
Because of the Berlin Conference and subsequent Scramble for Africa, Mozambique's lingua franca is this.
What is Portuguese?
This is the stage of boundary creation where actual physical markers are created to show where the boundary is.
What is demarcartion?
Geographically large countries with many first order civil divisions likely practice this form of government.
What is federalism?
Because of China's long history of ethnic nationalism and efforts to preserve their established culture, ethnic Uyghur Muslims in Tibet may be in danger of this.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Movements for independence most directly reflect this concept that comes from the Enlightenment.
What is self-determination?
Of the different types of political boundaries, this would be the type that the province of Nunavut is.
What is consequent?
The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea gives coastal countries complete navigational, economic, and political sovereignty over this zone that stretches 12 nautical miles from the coast.
What is the territorial sea?
A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
What is oligarchy?
The American colonies declaring their independence as a sovereign state from the British Empire in 1776 is this form of devolution.
What is disintegration?
Historically, Iceland had only one period of human migration. The country has never been invaded and possesses a common culture and language. As a result, Iceland is a good example of this type of state.
What is a nation-state?
Walls built to separate the lands occupied by Palestine and Israel are an example of this type of connection of people to their land.
What is territoriality?
Sadam Hussein and the Iraqi government tapping into oil reserves in Kuwait and sparking the Gulf War is an example of this type of boundary dispute.
What is allocational?
As support for a government increases, this is likely to be put into place in underdeveloped area.
What is equitable infrastructure?
As Yugoslavia experienced devolution through disintegration, the new boundaries were primarily drawn using this human characteristic.
What is ethnicity?