Geopolitics and World Order Summary

R. Hausmann: Countries such as Singapore or Brunei are ideally suited for trade.
False Statement: Germany suffered from the missing network of navigable rivers.
External Challenge to Liberal World Order: Ambitions of assertive regional powers.
Country that has not moved its capital city: France.
Liberal World Order is not characterized by: Lack of peaceful cooperation.
True Statement: African territory is larger than combined territories of US, CHN, IND, UK, FR, SP, Greenland, Eastern Europe.
World region with the highest population growth: Central Africa.
In 2010s: The US share of the global GDP increased.
Country that does/did not have an elongated shape of the territory: Czechoslovakia.

Country that significantly changed its foreign policy due to internal conflict: Rwanda.
Country that has not been antagonized by China: Serbia.
Factor not limiting China's power potential: Military cooperation with Russia.
False Statement about French Revolution: It established an authoritarian rule in France.
Country not in the position of world leader according to G. Modelski: USSR.
Not a Geopolitical Imperative of China: Occupation of Mongolia.
Country that is not outward oriented: Mongolia.
Increasing challenge to African states (according to J. Herbst): The increasing urbanization and the fact that people are close to the state now.
Factor according to J. Herbst that does not have a negative influence on power projection in Africa: Discipline of the army.
Most of the least developed countries are located in: Africa.

Vision of borderless world is based on the faith in: Stable geopolitical space free of conflicts.
Greed vs. Grievance debate is about: Conflict cause.
The first Island chain does not include: Australia.

The existing US dominated liberal world order is not threatened by (Kagan): Deepening European integration.
Luttwak defined geoeconomics as: A continuation of the logic of geopolitics applied to the era of globalization.
Thukydides Trap: Principle of armed conflict between rising and established power.
One Belt One Road is based on the logic of: The classical geopolitics and confrontation between land and sea.
Terrorism is defined by: Political goal.
Author of the quotation “Today threats more frequently arise from the disintegration of state power and the growing number of ungoverned territories”: Kissinger.
Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese infrastructural project.

21st century power shift has two dimensions (Nye): Diffusion of power from state to non-state actors and power transition among states.
Main feature of teichopolitics: Physical demarcation of borders and territoriality.
Country that possesses nuclear weapons: North Korea.
Group affiliated to the Islamic State (Daesh): Boko Haram.
Vision of borderless world is based on the faith in: Stable geopolitical space free of conflicts.

External challenge to the Liberal World order: Ambitions of assertive regional powers.
Concert of Powers in Europe: Was dominated by the UK, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria.

Country in East Europe that is landlocked: Belarus.
Factor limiting China’s power potential: Shrinking work-age population.
The internal challenge to the Liberal World order is not: Ambition of assertive regional powers.
Cocaine is mainly produced in: Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.
Country with an almost compact shape of the territory: Poland.

The highest percentage of undermarcated borders lies in: Africa.
False Statement: With the Mercator projection, Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa.
False statement: Communications can not create geopolitical anomalies
Russia's strategic problem is the lack of natural barriers along its: Western border