APHUG Political Geography

The Peace of Westphalia ____________

The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is

Which country has experienced violent devolution?

The first widespread use of the nation-state concept was in

The world's largest state is

In 1997 Scotland took a major devolutionary step with the establishment of ________

A series of concrete pillars _________ the northern boundary of Kuwait with Iraq

The conflict in Rwanda and Uganda in the mid-1990s is an example of a(n)

Which of the following countries were former Communist states are now members of the EU?

The political economy of Canada would best be described as a

A boundary between countries is a

Which is not characteristic of unitary state governments?

Participation in the United Nations serves the useful purpose of committing states to ______

Korea is a good example of a

A state with control over its internal affairs has

Padania is to Italy as Upper Silesia is to _________

Singapore can be classified as all the following except

As of 2005, which major European Union nation has not entered the Euro Monetary Zone?

An increasing number of states have adopted a federal form of government primarily to

The movement of power from the central government to regional governments is referred to as

The boundary between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes is an example of a(n)

A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,

The dominating colonial influence in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia was ___________

Anthropologist Robert Ardery argued that humans are concerned with _________

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but

An area organized into an independent political unit is a

Following the disintegration of the former Soviet Union the only surviving superpower was

Wallerstein's views expressed in world systems theory hold that the global integrating force

The border characteristics of political regions are

Cultural boundaries include all but which of the following?

Which of the following is the best example of a nation-state?

__________ is an example of a core country which was never a classical colonial power

Two examples of absolute monarchies that exist today are

The Marshall Plan was a post-WW II endeavor by the United States to economically revive _____

A group of people who occupy an area and have a strong sense of unity based on shared beliefs

Two supranational organizations whose origins are primarily economic are

Cohen’s Shatterbelt theory predicted that armed conflicts after 1950 would likely occur

The present number of countries and territories in the world is around

What proved the undoing of monarchical absolutism, its sys of patronage during Eur's rebirth?

Listed among the challenges to the state in the 21st century are all the following except

Boundaries of independent African states were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were drawn

Which is an example of an allocational boundary dispute?

Yugoslavia was a prime example of a ________

The European state idea spread throughout the world through ________

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

A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a

What country do members of the European community worry will dominate the entire group?

The Kurds are a

Most ________ states gained independence after 1940.