Chapter+8

I. Where are states located? a. How has globalization impacted relationships (+ & -) between states? b. What is a state? c. How can a nation of people be decided between 2 or more states? d. How can a nation of people not have their own state? e. How did 20th Century political philosophies influence political borders? f. How does the size of a state impact its political and economic influence on the world? g. How do political boundaries change over time – city-state, colonies, etc.? II. How do boundaries create problems? a. What are the difference shapes of states – compact, prorupted, elongated fragmented, perforated? b. What are the + & - of the different shapes? c. What are some issues with being a land-locked state? d. What are the different ways boundaries are determined – manmade v. natural? e. How do formal regions establish boundaries – language, religion, etc.? f. How do different states divide their power? III. Cooperation w. other states a. Cold War Era – UN, NATO, Warsaw Pact, COMECON b. What are the benefits & costs of belonging to a regional organization? c. Economic organizations – EU (ECC), NAFTA IV. Why has terrorism increased? a. Domestic v. foreign terrorists b. Enemies without a state c. Allies of terrorist groups (Bush’s speech – “Either with us or against us”)  VOCABULARY Annexation   || Federal   || Nunavut  || Antarctica    || Forward capital   || Raison d’être  || Border landscape   || Frontier   || Reapportionment  || Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)   || Geopolitics   || Regionalism  || Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)   || Gerrymander   || Religious conflict  || Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)   || Global commons   || Reunification  || Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)   || Heartland/rimland   || Satellite state  || Buffer state   || Immigrant states   || Shatterbelt  || City-state   || Iron Curtain  || State  || Colonialism   || Irredentism  || Stateless ethnic groups  || Confederation   || Israel/Palestine  || Stateless nation  || Conference of Berlin (1884)   || Landlocked  || Supranationalism  || Core/periphery   || Law of the Sea  || Territorial disputes  || Decolonization   || Lebanon  || Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated)  || Devolution   || Manifest destiny  || Territoriality  || Domino theory   || Median-line principle  || Theocracy  || EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)   || Microstate  || Treaty ports  || Electoral regions   || Ministate  || UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)  || Enclave/exclave   || Nation  || Unitary  || Ethnic conflict   || National iconography  || USSR collapse  || European Union   || Nation-state  || ||