Vocabulary
What is nationalism?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations
What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal?
Centrifugal- Somethings that pulls a nation apart
Where did gerrymandering get its name?
Governor Elbridge Gerry, later Vice President of the United States
What is a federal state?
An independent country that disperes signigicant authority among subnational units.
What is a subsequent boundary
What is a unitary state?
An independent state that concentrates power in central government and grants little or no authority to its subnational units
Federal Form of Govt when great diversity (centripetal force or centrifugal force) and why.
Centripetal, leads to ethnonationalism
Explain the chracteristics of territorial seas in relation to the countries. (in terms of nautical miles)
200 nautical miles out from any country or country's territory belongs to the respected country.
What is democraitization?
Occurs when a sovereign state moves from a non-democracy to a democracy.
What is a superimposed boundary?
Barriers drawn in an area with complete disregard for the cultural, religious, and ethnic divisions within the people living there.
What is irredentism?
The political claim to territory in another country based on ethnic afifliations and historic borders.
International terrorism (centripetal force or centrifugal force) and why.
Centripetal, common enemy
What is ethnonationalism and how is it related to nationalism?
Ethnonationalism a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.
What is devolution?
The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones is known as devolution.
What is a geometric boundary?
A boundary created by using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs.
What is supranationalism?
Occurs when a collection of nation-state and their citizens relinquish some sovereign rights to a larger-scale body that exercises authority over its member states.
Describe the relationship between the government and the citizens of a country with nationalism as a centripetal force.
The government promises security in return for loyalty from citizens.
What are the lowest (least fragile) and highest (least fragile) ranked states of the Fragile State Index?
Most fragile: Yemen
Least fragile: Finland
What is a subsequent boundary
Subsequent/ethnographic boundaries are formed based on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and economic differences between groups of people
What is a consequent boundary?
What is gerrymandering and how does it relate to the terms "packing" and "cracking"
The manipulation of voting district boundaries to favor a particular political party, group, or election outcome.
Packing: Concentrating all the opponents votes
Cracking: Dividing the opponents votes into many districts
Using an example, explain a way that cultural cohesion can be accomplished within a multicultural state.
Answers will vary.
What is the current state of China's relationship with Google and why?
Google used to have an agreement with China to create a search engine that follows China's censorship laws, but their relationship deteriorated due to alleged government cyberattacks on the company so they refused to continue censoring the country.
What is UNCLOS?
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international agreement that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.
The scramble for Africa reflects what type of boundary and how does it still affect Africa today?
Superimposed- ethnic groups were seperated, battles over land.