Lecture 1 Flashcards
What contexts can Political Geography Be studied in?
Historical and Contemporay
What can Nation-States images lead to?
Sterotypes
Why in some places can one population cross a boder more easily than the other?
Views of State, e.g Mexico and the US
Can states be members of?
Larger political bodies such as the UN
In which was does a state require recognition?
Internally and externally
What is soveregnity?
A claim to final authority over a political community
Name common features of a state?
Government, Military, Police, Coins, Stamps
What is the State according to the Dictionary of Human Geography?
“A Centralised set of institutions facilitating coercive power and governing capabilities over a territory” (DHG, 2009)
What is a nation?
An imagined community of people with a shared identity and belonging
What is territory?
A defined unit of space organised and managed by a social group
What 3 things make a country?
State, Territory and Nation
What effect did colonisation have on the way land is controlled?
Nearly all land on Earth is occupied by an individual entity following the european model
Where did the Nation State System first proliferate in the 19th century?
Europe, basic building blocks
Why can Nation-States not always work?
They don’t always contain ethnicities of that nation due to geographical or societal changes e.g South Tyrol in Italy
What was the first name of the EU?
European Coal and Steel Commision
