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Chapter 11 a world o
geography unit for the nation state
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The most widely used map that is divided into countries, or states is the ____ Map. | world political map |
| independent political units that claim exclusive jurisdiction over defined territories and over all of the people and activities within them | state |
| the idea that a state has exclusive right to rule over a demarcated space and all the people and resources within it is known as | sovereignty |
| a state is a territory on a map, but a ____ is a cultural entity. | nation |
| a group of people who want to have their own government and rule themselves are a ___ | nation |
| political community, a willingness to join together and form a government to solve common problems is an expression of ___. | nationalism |
| who laid the foundation for the peoples allegiance to the state? | jean Jacques Rousseau |
| this philosopher believed that in nature people were merely physical beings, but when they united in a social contract they were capable of perfectibility. | jean Jacques Rousseau |
| the state, ruling over a territory that contains all the people who are culturally joined as a nation are | nation state |
| a set of unwritten rules or ways in which written rules are interpreted and actually enforced | political culture |
| patterns of social cooperation based on tolerance, trust, and widespread norms of active citized participation is | "civic community" |
| the right of a nation to govern itself | national self -determination |
| the survival of the fittest even among individuals, cultures and whole peoples | social Darwinism |
| this group was created to ensure the stability of a system of independent sovereign states by helping to resolve conflicts over territory and other disagreements between states. | The united Nations |
| binds state together, accommodates political demands | centripetal forces |
| pull states apart, rebel, excluded | centrifugal |
| what are the instruments most often used in nation building? | religion, armed forces, education, symbols, media, political parties, and labor unions. |
| sometimes called the school of the nations, this group consumes a parge percentage of the national budget and holds the state together, either by force or by training and socializing young people as loyal citizens. | armed forces |
| schools instill in youngsters the society's values and traditions, its political and social culture, this process is called | enculturation , or socialization |
| each countries own set of national symbols is | iconography |
| what threatens national unity? | globalization or regionalism, globalization erobes borders and regionalism makes new borders whithin a country. Globalization promotes cross-border cooperation and interaction that decrease the sovereignty of the nation state. |
| seeking to exercise self-determination and form a new country, leading to civil war is considered a _____ | separatist movement |
| making a new state by drawing a border around territory taken from the existing state. | partition |
| examples of failed states | sri lanka, congo, and the sudan |
| forcible and violent expulsion is called | ethnic cleansing |
| the practice of intentionally trying to eliminate a national, ethnic, racial or religious group | genocide |
| the effects of natural geographic facts on states and their relating is | geopolitics |
| protects the rights of individuals and citizens are to choose their leaders through competitive elections | democracy |
| assumes government works for the good of the people | democracy |
| run according to the interest of the ruler or ruling elite rather than the people. Dictatorships are an ectreme form of this government. the rulers use coercion or forct to limit opposition | autocratic or autocracy |
| government by theft | klepocracies |
| the line that marks the territorial limit of a state are a ____ | border or boundary |
| borders are often classified as one of three types | physical, geometric, or cultural |
| rivers or mountains define this boundaries | physical |
| these boundaries are defined by straight lines of longitude or latitude running between geographic coordinates. | geometric boundaries |
| boundaries drawn with respect to existing patterns of human activity are | cultural boundaries |
| countries in which political power is concentrated at the national level are referred to as | unitary governments or centralized governments |
| countries in which power is shared with the subunits are called | federal governments |
| the subfield of political geography that studies elections and voting patterns is called | electoral geography |
| district lines can be drawn in ways that include or exclude specific groups of voters so that one group gains an unfair advantage is called | gerrymandering |
| the most pervasive form of discrimination in the world is | sexism |
| countries can establish formal agreements with each other, which are usually called | treaties |
| good diplomatic relations lead to two countries establishing a ___ in each others countries each with diplomats and staff that live there. | permanent missions |
| what are the challenges of globalization | more difficult to counter terrorism and disease due to air travel. communication amd media transcend borders and spread new ideas which threaten some countries. it may cause local economies to go under and spread devastating economic rishk |
| what group seeks to promote solutions to global problems that governments fail to achieve and address some local issues and global problems such as war, violations of human rights and environmental degradation | NGO's non governmental organizations |
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