AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Unit 4: Political Geography

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

A state with the best relative location.

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

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

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

Best example of a Nation-state.

NOT a supranational organization.

Boundary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico.

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

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

Best example of voluntary segregation.

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

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

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

A primate city.

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

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

The Law of the Sea (1982) standardized

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

Largest stateless nation in the world.

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

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

Supranationalism has come at the expense of what geopolitical concept?

Which event symbolically marked the end of the Cold War?

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

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

The countertrend to fragmentation in global interactions today.

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

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

Largest territory in the world in terms of population.

Chilean Navy ship 100 miles of its coast can legally

Example of a geometric boundary.

Allocational boundary disputes involve

A group uses violence to intimidate governments.

NOT a land-locked state?

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

Example of a superimposed boundary created by the Communist Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The smallest political-administrative unit.

North Korea is one of the few remaining examples of a

NOT a centripetal force in a nation-state.

Best example of a city-state.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An enclave state.

NOT a primary purpose of the EU.

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

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

The Kashmir region of India is primarily known for

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

Kurdistan is an example of a(n)

Boundaries most clearly symbolize the political principal of...

NOT an institution commonly found in modern states.

Example of a multicore state.

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

A recent global trend in domestic economic policies.

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

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