Exam 8: Political Geography

What ultimately proved to be the undoing of monarchical absolutism and its system of patronage during Europe's rebirth?

The boundaries of independent African states were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were essentially drawn

Scotland and Wales are to the UK as ____________ are to Spain.

Mackinder's heartland theory of geopolitics maintained that world domination would be exercised through sea power.

Devolution is affecting many countries in the world today.

Geometric boundaries,totally unrelated to any aspects of the cultural or physical landscape,were made considerable use of by the colonial powers in ________________

Sir Halford Mackinder developed what would become known as the heartland theory which suggested that interior Eurasia contained a critical "pivot area" that would generate a state capable of challenging for world domination. The key to the area according to Mackinder was ________________

Listed among the challenges to the state in the twenty-first century are all the following except ________________

The League of Nations intervened to aid Ethiopia when attacked by Italy in the mid-1930s.

Discuss the factors needed to create a nation-state. Are there any perfect nation-states? What factors can threaten a nation-states stability?

A boundary between countries is a

Which is not characteristic of unitary state governments?

The European state idea spread throughout the world through ________________

Disputes over water (e.g.among Syria,Turkey,and Iraq over the Euphrates)are examples of allocational boundary disputes.

Which of the following is either believed to have or to be actively developing nuclear weapons?

Discuss the European state model in terms of territory,sovereignty,homogeneity and control. Choose a state and discuss the formation and extension of control from the capital core to peripheral regions and the types of devolutionary forces within the state.

Robert Sack's view of human territorial behavior implies an expression of control over space and time. This control is closely related to the concept of ________________

Which is an example of a stateless-nation?

Why is Sub Saharan Africa likely to face more serious problems creating cohesive independent states that would be politically stable and lack serious internal ethnic frictions?

In The Territorial Imperative,Robert Ardery argued that humans are concerned with ________________