Our Post-test Agenda Evaluation –PowerPoint? –Assignment –Tests? Four Little Tigers South-East Asia –Major qualities and influences –Political geography concepts
Major Geographic Qualities Fragmentation –Rugged, high relief, crustal instability, and tropical climates Clustered population distribution Poor intraregional communications –Political fragmentation Colonialism…again! instability Shatter belt – persistent fracturing –Cultural fragmentation ethnic, linguistic, and religious
Timor-Leste
Political Geography A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior Key terms –Supranationalism –Balkanization –Irredentism –Geopolitics –Devolution Friedrich Ratzel ( )
State Territorial Morphology Compact- Cambodia Protruded (corridor)- Thailand Elongated (attenuated 6:1)- Vietnam Fragmented- Phillipines Perforated (enclave)- South Africa The impact of shape?
Shapes of States
Boundaries Definition – textual, as in treaty Delimitation- cartographic Demarcation-surveyed with monuments, fences or barriers