- A state with a LONG, narrow shape. (Examples: Vietnam, Chile)
- This type of state makes for difficult governance.
What is an Elongated State?
100
A group of people that have similar characteristics.
What is a Nation?
100
The study of the political organization of the world.
What is Political Geography?
100
Organizing state territory into regions,substates (States), provinces, or cantons.
What is a Federal System?
100
A vertical plabe that cuts through the rocks below and the airspace above. (Hint: this is used to separate properties)
What is a boundary?
200
- Examples: the U.S., Indonesia, etc.
- This type of state is very difficult to govern.
What is a Fragmented State?
200
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.
What is a State?
200
Characteristics of ______________________ .
1. The world economy has one market and a global division of labor.
2. Although the world has multiple states, almost everything takes place within the context of the world economy.
3. The world economy has a three-tier structure.
What is Wallerstein's World-System Theory?
200
A sovereign state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that the central government chooses to delegate.
What is a Unitary Govn't?
200
This theory was developed by Mackinder, it states that that the control of Eastern Europe was vital to control of the world.
What is the Heartland Theory?
300
- Belgium is a great example of this
- This type of state is much easier to defend than any of the other types.
What is a Compact State?
300
A group of people that do not share a specific country for their nation.
What is a Stateless Nation?
300
Robert Sack defined this as, "the attempt by an individual or group to affect, influence, or control people, phenomena, and relationships, by delimiting and asserting control over a certain area"
What is Territoriality?
300
The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state.
What is Devolution?
300
A separate entity composed of three or more states that forge an association and form an administrative structure for mutual benefit.
What is a Supranational Organization?
What is a supranational Organization?
400
- Appears as a "panhandle" extends from it (Examples: Greece, Afghanistan)
What is a Prorupted State?
400
A state with more than one groups of people that have different characteristics.
What is a Multinational State?
400
- The event in European history that marks the beginning of the modern state.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
400
__________refers to a system under which both economic aims and the institutions used to advance them are determined and administered in the first instance by local economic communities, with wider agreements negotiated - only where necessary - at regional, continental and global forums.
What is Economic Devolution?
400
An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
What is the European Union?
500
- Italy & South Africa
What is a Perforated State?
500
A nation that stretches across borders and across states.
What is a Multistate Nation?
500
During the period of European colonialism (1500-1950), ________ and the _________ expanded over land instead of over seas, profiting from the taking of territory and the subjugation of indigenous peoples.
What is RUSSIA & the UNITED STATES ?
500
Czechs and Slovaks divided their country along the international border because of cultural differences.
What is (an Example) of Ethnocultural Diffusion?
500
- An organization of independent states
- Formed in 1945
- Promotes international peace and security