Module 27

Question 1

Shatterbelt

Answer 1

A region of instability caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces under persistent stress.
Often fragmented by aggressive rivals
- Israel
- Kashmir
- Eastern Europe during Cold War

Question 2

Choke Point

Answer 2

Strategic setting where narrow waterways or other narrow passageways are vulnerable to military blockade disruption.
- Suez Canal to Bab elmadeb
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Bosphorus Strait
- Strait of Hormuz
- Strait of Malacca

Question 3

Exclave
Excluded

Answer 3

Part of a country that is separate from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory

Question 4

Enclave
Included

Answer 4

A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory.

Question 5

Balkanization

Answer 5

Process by which estate breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

Question 6

Decolonization

Answer 6

The collapse of colonial empires between 1947 and 1962 practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence