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Political Geography
Question | Answer |
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Defined Law of the Seas | Truman Proclamation |
Who was the first to follow the US in the Law of the Seas? | Mexico |
The limit on international waters | 200 nautical miles |
What quantified territorial seas and delimited territory up to 12 miles? | UNCLOS 3 |
What did the Exclusive Economic Zone allow? | The state can ECONOMICALLY do whatever they want up to 200 nautical miles |
In the EEZ, what happens if the continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm from the shore? | Coastal state can go up to 350 nm from the shore. |
What did the Common Heritage Clause state? | minerals belong to all humankind; helps landlock countries |
What is a centrifugal force? | Forces within a state that divide it |
The two definitions of Devolution | 1. when a state cedes some power to sub-state units 2. when a state breaks apart (Yugoslavia) |
What makes Scotland capable of breaking away from England? | They have patrolium, they're rich, and they have Shawn Conry |
What is the Catalan of Spain? | the very wealthy part of Spain that wants out of being apart of Spain |
What is an exclave? | the piece of land broken off from the mother land. |
What are definitional boundary disputes? | center on legal issues |
What are allocational boundary disputes? | conflict over stuff |
What is shatterbelt? | Breaks apart and comes together repeatedly |
Etemically cleansing | getting rid of a group of people |