1. Political Geography

2. Political Geography

3. Political culture learned and shared
how / what we think about politics
communism, democracy, conservatives,
liberals, democrats, republicans, theocracies,
secular states, territoriality,

4. Election Results

5. Campaign Headquarters

6. Election Signs
(lawn ornaments)

7. Political Buildings

8. Political Buildings

9. Monuments

10. Land Division System

11. Borders and Flags

12. Duty Free Shop

13. Territoriality
a sense of ownership
mark your territory

15. Fences are one of the most common ways to show / mark territory.

25. Sovereignty final authority over social,
economic, and political matters
rest with the independent state
Sovereignty can be exerted subtly or more forcefully.
Examples: …

26. Canadian Coast Guard providing ice-breaking service

27. SS Manhattan & the Northwest Passage

28. The Canadian Coast Guard ship John A. MacDonald accompanied
the SS Manhattan on its voyage through the Northwest Passage
to support Canada’s claim to control of the Passage.

30. Canada’s new submarines
will help patrol our vast
Coastline, and our 200
mile limit.
(over fishing, pollution, ….)

32. Brandenburg Gate separating E and W Berlin

33. The ‘security barrier’ / ‘wall’
separating the West bank
from Israel
Border of Pakistan and India

34. Parts of the 100+ km of wall
separating the U.S. and Mexico

35. U.S. – Mexico border crossing

36. Political Morphology
Shape
Size
Relative Location

37. Shape
Prorupt, Protruded
Perforated
Fragmented
Elongated
Compact

38. Nation
State
Nation-state

39. Nation
(a group of people)
Kurds

40. State (country)

41. Nation – state
(a country occupied by 1 group of people – 95% or greater ethnicity)
Iceland
Other examples:
Lebanon
N & S Korea
Portugal
Egypt
Estonia
Maldives

42. Stateless nations
Kurdistan

43. Palestine

44. Inuit: a nation ?

45. A state for the Inuit nation ? Devolution ?

46. Centripetal Forces unite a country Centrifugal Forces divide a country
examples: ….
Centrifugal Forces
divide a country
examples: ….

47. What is a key centripetal force here ?

48. What was a key centrifugal force here ?

49. Supranationalism 2 or more countries form a common
union for economic, military, or political
cooperation in order to promote shared
objectives
Examples of supranational organizations: ….

50. United Nations

51. NAFTA

52. NATO

53. Arab League

54. OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

55. Devolution the process whereby regions within a state
demand and gain political strength and
growing autonomy at the expense of the
central government
Examples of devolution: …...

56. U.S.S.R.

57. Former
Yugoslavia