Unit 4 Flashcards
What are states that aren’t agreed as independent in the UN? (2)
Palestine
(Not recognized by 56 countries)
Kosovo
(Not recognized by UN)
What are 4 examples of nations?
- Native Hawaiians
- Navajo people
- the Maasai (in East Africa)
- African/ Arab tribal groups in Darfur (Sudan)
What are the best examples of nation states?
- Japan
- Iceland
- Denmark
Where did the idea of a nation state come from?
Europe
Drew borders in the 19th century to match national identities (made Poland)
What is an example of nations causing a lack of unity in Spain?
- Basques
- Catalans
What are 4 examples of a multi state nation?
- Korea
- Soviet Union
- Kurdish
- Basque
What is an example of irredentism?
Russia trying to annex Ukraine
What are two examples of multinational states that have trouble creating unity?
- Iran (different groups such as Sunnis, Shias, and Kurdish)
- Yugoslavia (had to break up)
What is are two examples of an autonomous regions?
- Hong Kong (has a different gov than the one in China)
- Aland (self governing territory in Finland)
What is an example of a semiautonomous region?
American Indian Reservations (has authority to operate under certain different laws)
What are 7 examples of a stateless nation?
- Tribal nations (U.S.)
- Basque people (Spain)
- Catalans (Spain)
- Flemish (Belgium - Flanders and Wallonia)
- Palestinians
- Jewish People (until 1948)
- Kurdish
What are 3 examples of a state using neocolonialism?
- The Chinese in Kenya
Kenya use Chinese company to make railroad = China has control - The French in West Africa (now have bases there for military)
- US in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East (military bases there)
What is an example of a company using neocolonialism?
American telephone company in India
Located in India because:
1. Developing country
2. Cheaper tax
3. Looser regulations
4. Cheap labor
What are multinational companies?
Corporations that operate in more than one country
For example: Apple, McDonalds
When does neocolonialism usually occur?
After decolonization
What are examples of waterway choke points?
- Strait of Malacca (transports soybeans)
- Strait of Hormuz (transports oil)
- Suez Canal (busiest trade route in the world
What is the prime example of a shatter belts?
The Balkan Peninsula:
- was the Ottoman Empire
- was Yugoslavia (broke into different
states - Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
What are three examples of a shatter belt made due to religious conflict?
- India and Pakistan over Kashmir
- Israel and Palestine
- Sudan and South Sudan (Christians south + Islamic North)
How is territoriality shown?
- By delimiting and demarcating boundaries
- By controlling people and activities inside their area of claim
- Defending the area from external groups
What caused the Balkan Peninsula to be a shatter belt?
Self determinism against Soviet Union
What is an example of an independent state that is not really sovereign?
Cuba
Cuba is dependent on the Soviet Union for necessities so the Soviet Union has a strong influence on Cuba
What is an example of a state’s sovereignty being violated?
U.S. and Guatemala
US support coup to overthrow Carlos Castillo Armas
Which countries had the “quest for an empire”
Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, The Netherlands, and Belgium
Which two states had the largest empires?
Spain and Britain
What are the three horsemen of colonialism?
God, Gold, Glory
What impact did Britain’s legacy imperialism have on the world?
English in the US and Australia
What impact did Spain’s ”legacy imperialism” have on the world?
Spanish in South and Central America
Highest number of Christians in Latin America
How did imperialism affect Africa?
The Berlin Conference in 1884 made superimposed boundaries in Africa
These boundaries created economic and social problems
For ex.) Rwandan Genocide
Why were the boundaries made in Africa at the Berlin Conference so bad?
- They didn’t follow the Murdock Ethnic Map and caused social problems
For ex.) Rwandan Genocide - Made the counties there dependent on European countries
- Bad education there
What were 6 independence movements away from imperialism and colonialism?
- India from Britain
- Areas in Africa and Southeast Asia throw off colonialism from France
- American Revolution
- Scotland from the UK
- Kurds from Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq
- People from Algeria and Kenya from Britain
What is an example of a definitional boundary dispute?
Belize and Guatemala boundary dispute
Guatemala didn’t agree with the boundary (wanted more than half of Belize)
What is example of a locational boundary dispute?
The border between the US and Mexico
The Rio Grande (the border between US and Mexico) changes because it is a River
What is an operational boundary dispute?
Dispute over how to handle a boundary
For ex.)
How to effectively make us boundary so Mexican migrants can’t come in
For ex.)
Boundary between India and Pakistan (Kashmir)