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Chapter 8 - Political Geography (Shapes of Sates (Preforated (south…
Chapter 8 - Political Geography
Nations and States
Stateless nations
Kurdistan
Nation States
Japan
Multi-national state
USA
Multistate nation
Korea
State
political entity
Nation
cultural entity
Modern State Idea
Peace of westphalia
State defines nation
Boundaries
Geometric
grid system
latitude and longitude
Physical-political
Landform
Agreed-upon feature
Process
Define
states agree on boundary
Delimit
cartographers make it on a map
Demarcate
Making a boundary in the real world like fence
Administrate
controlling boundaries
a vertical plane that cuts airspace and ground
Disputes
Allocational
over resources
Definitional
initional creation
Locational
territory
Operational
over admin
Classical Geopolitics
German
Freidrich Ratzel
states are "living" and need room to grow
"lebensraum" - adopted by Nazis
British American
Sir Halford MacKinder
Heartland theory
Eastern Europe < Heartland < World Island < World
Shapes of Sates
Preforated
south africa/ italy
Fragmented
Indonesia
Elongated
Vietnam
Biforcated
Malasia
Prorupted
Thailand / Namibia
Compact
Poland
Enclave
Vatican city / Lesotho
Exclave
Alaska
Supranational Organizations
3 or more states
Mutual Benefit
Economic
military
Trade
Global
UN
Regional
NAFTA
Electoral Geography
Governments
Federal
Organized into territories
Territories have control
Unitary
Highly Centralized
Has control over whole state
territorial representation
gerrymandering
favors one political party over another
reapportionment
Devolution
Collapse of a state
Yugoslavia
Movement of power
from the center to regional
Ethnocultural
Spatial
Economic
All are centrifugal
Centrifugal
divides a state
Centripetal
unites a state
Wallerstein
World state theory
Three tier system
core
semi peripheral
peripheral
Capitalism
Commodification