Political Entities
If you have a defined territory with borders, a permanent population, sovereignty, and recognition from most countries, you are a _______?
What is a state?
At the Berlin Conference, this landmass was divided up by European powers with no regard for cultural groups living inside it.
What is Africa?
Control over people, land, and resources.
What is political power?
The connection people have to the land they claim as their own.
What is territoriality?
Iceland is a good example of which political entity?
a location within a state that is given partial authority to govern independently
What is a semi-autonomous region?
This is the most powerful political centripetal force.
What is nationalism?
The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders.
What is sovereignty?
The study of the effects of geography on politics and relations between states.
What is geopolitics?
Is Korea a multistate nation?
Yes
The United Kingdom is an example of which political entity? (It contains England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all in one country!)
What is a multinational state?
Give an example of a state that Balkanized.
What is Yugoslavia, etc.?
When a MDC makes large investments in an LDC in exchange for influence, control, or economic gain, this is known as ________.
What is neocolonialism?
A strategic strait or canal which is narrow, hard to pass through and has competition for use.
What is a choke point?
Are Native American reservations autonomous regions?
No - they are semi-autonomous regions.
Give an example of a stateless nation.
Who are the Kurds, the Palestinians, etc.?
When a minority group wants to secede from a state (Quebec is a good example)
What is separatism?
When citizens of a more powerful country create settlements in a less powerful country, claiming the land as their new home.
What is colonialism?
There is a religious territorial conflict between mostly Shia Iran and mostly Sunni ________.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Korea and Vietnam were caught in between conflict between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This would make them ________?
What are shatterbelts?
Give an example of a multistate nation.
Who are the Ukrainians, etc.?
In 1994, there was a genocide in this African multinational state that led to the deaths of 800,000 people.
What is Rwanda?
Give an example of a choke point.
Strait of Malacca (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia), Strait of Hormuz (Iran), Suez Canal (Egypt)
Why are China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei fighting over the South China Sea?
What are...
Potential for new oil
Fishing
Control of shipping lanes
(I'll take any of these)
If a state with various races of M&Ms and Skittles Balkanized, how would they split up?
By ethnicity/nationality