Unit 4

Vocabulary: State, Nation, Multinational State, Multi-State Nation, Stateless Nation, Choke Point, Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Geopolitics, Colonialism & Decolonization, Imperialism & Neocolonialism, Autonomous & Semi-Autonomous Regions, Federal & Unitary States, Territoriality, Annexation, Centripetal & Centrifugal Forces, Types of Boundaries: Antecedent, Subsequent, Consequent, Superimposed, Geometric, Relic. Types of Borders: Open, Militarized, Defined, Delimited, Demarcated.

Boundary Disputes: Definitional dispute (territorial), Operational dispute (functional), Allocational dispute. National Exclaves & Enclaves, Ethnic Separatism, Irredentism, Devolution, Balkanization, Shatterbelts, Subnationalism, Regionalism, Ethnonationalism, Xenophobia, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Terrorism.

US Voting Districts & Internal Boundaries: Redistricting, Reapportionment, Gerrymandering (Cracking & Packing). Globalization, Supranationalism (UN, NATO, EU), Transnational Corporations, Autocracy, Democratization.

Shapes of States: Compact, Prorupted, Perforated, Elongated, Landlocked, Fragmented.

Key Ideas: Four requirements to define a state, impact of imperialism on Africa & Asia, Berlin Conference, Partition of British Palestine & India, consequent boundaries, differences between colonialism & imperialism, examples of forces, disagreements within states (ethnic, religious, economic), end of the USSR & Cold War, militarized boundaries, UN Law of the Sea (Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, Exclusive Economic Zone, High Sea), value of islands & Arctic (economic, military), impact of gerrymandering on political power, role of Supranational Organizations (economic, political, environmental), relationship between transnational corporations & neocolonialism, pros & cons of state shapes.

Countries/Nations to Know: Ireland/Britain, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, Rwanda/Burundi, Armenia, Myanmar (Rohingya), Spain/Basque region, Yugoslavia, China (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South China Sea).