Nation & State
What is a nation-state?
What is a political unit where the nation and state boundaries match.
What are natural boundaries?
What is boundaries that follow physical features like rivers or mountains.
What are centripetal forces?
What are forces that unify a country and strengthen national identity.
What is federalism?
What is a system in which power is shared between national and regional governments.
What is a supranational organization?
What is an organization that operates above the level of individual states.
What is a stateless nation?
What is a group of people with a shared identity but no sovereign state.
What are geometric boundaries?
What is straight-line boundaries drawn without regard to culture or landscape.
What are centrifugal forces?
What are forces that divide a country and weaken state cohesion.
What is a unitary state?
What is a system with a strong central government holding most political power.
What is an example of a supranational organization?
Nato, EU, World Trade Organization, African Union
What is Japan?
What is this country is often cited as the strongest example of a nation-state.
What is a relict boundary?
What is a former boundary that no longer functions but remains visible.
What is an example of centrifugal force?
Linguistic diversity within a country, economic inequality, religious differences, political instability
What is the census?
What is the U.S. Census is a constitutionally mandated, once-a-decade count of every resident in the United States, conducted by the Census Bureau in years ending in zero
What is a shatterbelt?
What is an unstable region located between competing political or cultural groups.
What is a multinational state?
What is a country that contains multiple ethnic groups within its borders.
What is an example of antecedent boundary?
The U.S.–Canada border at the 49th parallel, Himalayas, deserts
What is devolution?
What is the transfer of power from a central government to regional governments.
What is gerrymandering?
What is the manipulation of voting district boundaries for political advantage.
What is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
What is international agreement that defines territorial seas and EEZs.
What is an example of a nation without a state?
Kurds, Palestinians, Basques, Tibetans, Roma, Catalans
What is the median-line principle?
What is principle divides maritime boundaries equally between two states.
What are devolutionary pressures?
What is ethnic and religious divisions in Iraq can cause this political pressure.
What is a consequent boundary?
What is a type of boundary is created after the cultural landscape is already in place and is often drawn to reflect ethnic, linguistic, or religious patterns.
What is 200 nautical miles?
What is the distance an EEZ extends from a country’s coastline.