Exam 6: Political Geography: A Divided World

In the case of East Pakistan and West Pakistan, the exclaves were an undesirable political condition for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Kaliningrad is an example of a(n):

According to Robert Sack, the precise marking of borders is a concept originally unique to Western culture.

The configuration of a national territory that minimizes the amount of border to be defended is:

In what part of the United States was opposition to women's suffrage strongest?

The world's most powerful and ambitious supranational organization at present is:

Which continent is composed of 12 different countries, or states?

Underlying the doctrine of manifest destiny was an ideology that Anglo-Saxons were racially superior to Native Americans.

A nation-state is an independent country that:

The Rio Grande and Pyrenees are examples of:

In the United States, the doctrine of _____ was based on the belief that the Pacific shoreline offered the logical western border of the country.

National icons, such as Mount Rushmore, often have a nationalistic quality to them.

European colonial powers generally extended the right of self-determination to their overseas colonies.

Within the United States, the region that has traditionally demonstrated the most support for environmental regulation of air pollution has been the South.

-On the map, an example of a state with a compact national territory like France is:

According to Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles, what is the "underbelly of mobility"?

The government of Tiwanaku made a concerted effort to make the periphery feel represented and visible in the core.

Which supranational organization does NOT represent the vestige of a collapsed empire?

Political innovations are common in ______ states, because in this system, laws can be adopted by subnational systems and diffuse through the states.

Which country was a buffer state in Southeast Asia between the British and French Empires?