AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Unit 4: Political Geography

NOT a supranational organization.

National govt. of France transfer decision-making on infrastructure to regional govts.

The practice of adjusting voting district boundaries to benefit one political party or group.

A state with the best relative location.

Best example of a Nation-state.

This political organization most directly reflects the current trend toward integration.

When neighboring states cannot agree on policies that apply in a border area.

Boundaries most clearly symbolize the political principal of...

"Breakaway movements" that have threatened Russian stability recently are based on

Largest stateless nation in the world.

Argentina has a Central Govt. and 23 Provincial legislatures, both exercising separate powers.

A group uses violence to intimidate governments.

Example of a superimposed boundary created by the Communist Europe.

The countertrend to fragmentation in global interactions today.

Supranationalism has come at the expense of what geopolitical concept?

States with the ability to carry out actions w/in their borders independent from interference.

Best example of a city-state.

Largest territory in the world in terms of population.

The smallest political-administrative unit.

Which group's desire for an independent state is a devolutionary force in Russia?

NOT a land-locked state?

The majority of African states entered the UN after 1960. Why?

NOT a centripetal force in a nation-state.

The Law of the Sea (1982) standardized

The border between the US and Canada, the 49th parallel is an example of what type of boundary?

A type of state where the Central government shares power with sub-regional governments such as the US.

Southeast Asia from the 1950s through the 1970s was considered a

Allocational boundary disputes involve

Some Norweigians say that Norway is the ruler of parts of Sweden, once a part of Norway.

Example of a geometric boundary.

The Kashmir region of India is primarily known for

Uruguay's national government sets policies that are administered by local governments.

A resource lies on two sides of a border and may cause a(n)

A centrifugal force in the India/Pakistan relationship in the late 1940s.

Catalonia's desire to separate because of culture and a much stronger economy are examples of? (choose more than 1)

Which international organization could best be incorporated into Spykman's rimland theory?

Best example of voluntary segregation.

"Shatter belts" are geographical zones where tensions often explode based on...

Which shows the strongest support for the conclusion: Japan has few centrifugal forces?

This system of government concentrates policymaking power in one geographic place.

The UN Law of the Sea gives countries access to drill for mineral rights up to...

An enclave state.

Goal of both NAFTA (which is now USMCA) and the EU.

Which event symbolically marked the end of the Cold War?

NOT a primary purpose of the EU.

The main purpose of minority/majority districting is usually to...

Problems seen today in Africa were caused when boundaries were redrawn at the Berlin Conference and...

The civil war in Rwanda is most closely an example of...

A group of people bound together by a common identity, ethnicity, language, and religion.

People who consider themselves part of a stateless nation share all of the following EXCEPT

Halford Mackinder's heartland theory said that this country was most likely to rule the world.

NOT part of the rimland, as identified by Nicholas Spykman in his Rimland Theory.

NOT an institution commonly found in modern states.

Kurdistan is an example of a(n)

The French empire in West Africa collapsed, the region split into 8 different countries.

A recent global trend in domestic economic policies.

Example of a multicore state.

The Basque people,live in both Spain and France, speak their own language would be described as

In Afganistan the people show more loyalty to their tribes than they do to the state.

Germany invaded Poland in the late 1930s, because of the large German minority there.

Boundary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico.

Several countries in Africa form an alliance to promote economic development.

North Korea is one of the few remaining examples of a

All the following are characteristics of most of the world's remaining dependencies EXCEPT:

The median-line principle is often used to define a...

Serbs, Croats and Bosnians among others break up over religion, culture took place in .....

Chilean Navy ship 100 miles of its coast can legally

This is an example of a centrifugal force within a nation-state.

A primate city.