Miscellaneous
8.1 (Where Are States Distributed?)
8.2 (Why Are Nation-States Difficult to Create?)
8.4 (Why Do States Compete and Cooperate with Each Other?)
8.3 (Why Do Boundaries Cause Problems?)
100
Samuel Huntington's main thesis was that future conflicts would be dictated by this.
What is the Clash of Civilizations?
100
This is the largest state in the world.
What is Russia?
100
This refers to a country comprised of only one ethnic group.
What is a nation-state?
100
These were the two superpowers in the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union and the United States?
100
Boundaries like rivers and mountains can be defined as this type of boundary.
What is physical boundary?
200
This refers to a state with a strong centralized government that holds most power, rather than power being distributed locally.
What is a unitary state?
200
This area of the world saw the example of the first city-states, the first major political organization in history.
What is Mesopotamia (The Fertile Crescent)?
200
Name a good example of a nation-state.
What is Denmark or Slovenia (other European countries acceptable-ish)?
200
This term refers to the use of violence to promote a political agenda, usually involving acts like bombings, hijackings, or assassinations.
What is terrorism?
200
The Argentine-Chile boundary is this kind of boundary.
What is mountain boundary?
300
This is the process by which redistricting takes place in order to benefit one particular group of people.
What is gerrymandering?
300
This is an area organized into an independent political unit.
What is a state?
300
This term refers to a country with many different nationalities comprising it, all usually with competing traditions of self-rule.
What is multinational states?
300
This is the shared currency that helps promote unity in the E.U.
What is the euro?
300
The northern border between Canada and the U.S. is primarily this kind of boundary.
What is geometric boundary?
400
In the Ted Talk "Mapping the Future of Countries", this was the main thesis.
What is infrastructure projects/economic centripetal forces can be used to help unite regions of the country that have been divided based on ethnicity?
400
These two decades saw the largest jump in U.N. membership as decolonization ramped up.
What is 60s and 70s?
400
This part of the world saw the emergence of the first nation-states.
What is Western Europe?
400
This regime in Afghanistan was a state sponsor of terrorism, one of the reasons it sparked war with the United States.
What is the Taliban?
400
This state shape is supposedly the most efficient, making communication easiest.
What is a compact state?
500
These two countries perforate South Africa.
What is Swaziland and Lesotho?
500
Name two countries that are not part of the U.N.
What is Vatican City, Taiwan, or Kosovo?
500
This is the most populous colony in the world remaining.
What is Puerto Rico?
500
Al-Qaeda in large part grew out of muhajadeen warriors in this country fighting against this country.
What is Afghanistan and Soviet Union?
500
Define a fragmented state, give an example, and discuss its problems.
What is portions of the country are separated from the rest, usually by water, making communication difficult, likely developing in distinct cultural identities in the area separated. Indonesia is a good example of this.
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