1. CHAPTER 14 (n) CHAPTER 25 (0) Class Notes POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE EVOLVING STATE

2. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY –
study of the political organization of the planet
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POLITICAL CULTURE –
Governing Ideal shared by the community

3. How We Divide the World Land divided into about 200 states
Modern State system from European Roots (pg. 207)
Key facets…

4. People who share common historic, ethnic, cultural, religious views
NATION –
People who share common historic, ethnic, cultural, religious views
Belong to community
Perceptual Element involved
Nation exists cause you think it does

5. STATE –
A sovereign politically organized area (internationally recognized borders)
Very few true Nation-States
WHY???

6. The “Nation-State” The aspiration of Governing elites
Nation and state occupy the same area
SOVEREIGNTY –
final authority of a state’s political, social, economic, military affairs rests with that state

9. See the Difference FRANCE – State > Identified political area
Nation > Most people in France ID as French
Other Examples: Iceland, Japan, Poland
YUGOSLAVIA – State > ID’d political
area
NOT A NATION > ID’d selves as Croatian, Serbian, etc Not as Yugoslav

10. Stateless Nations Until 1948, Jewish nation had no state
Palestinians a nation, but have no state
Kurds in N. Iraq – nation of people, call land “Kurdistan” – But officially in Iraq / Turkey (see map pg. 200)

17. Switzerland Bucks the Trend
Strong state, but many different people (French, German, Belgian, Italian) hard to ID as Swiss
Twist on Nation-State concept:
community committed to common political culture (the state ideal) – forgoes cultural assertion
USA

18. SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STATES
No state exists without territory
Territorial Morphology –
Size, Shape, Relative location of States
Study dis / advantages of states / features

19. I. SIZE Big countries – USA > advantage USSR > disadvantage
Microstates – Extremely small states - Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Singapore

20. II. SHAPE
1. COMPACT – (Most) Geometric center to any border point pretty even

22. FRAGMENTED – State in 2 or more
pieces

24. 3. ELONGATED – Thin, narrow, stretched out

26. 4. PRORUPT (Protruded) – Extension out of compact core

28. 5. PERFORATED – Country with another separate state within it

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