I CAN - Unit 4 Political Patterns and Processes - Study Guide

■ Relic
4.1 Introduction to Political Geography ■ Superimposed
● I can define the different types of political ■ subsequent
entities for world political maps ■ Antecedent
● I can identify a contemporary example of ■ geometric
political entities ■ consequent boundaries
○ Independent states are the primary
building blocks of the world political 4.5 The Function of Political Boundaries
map ● I can explain the nature and function of
○ Types of political entities international and internal boundaries.
■ nations ○ Boundaries are
■ nation-states ■ defined
■ stateless nations ■ delimited
■ multinational states ■ demarcated
■ multistate nations ■ administered to establish
■ autonomous limits of sovereignty
■ semi-autonomous regions ■ often contested
■ American Indian ● Political boundaries often coincide
reservations with cultural, national, or economic
4.2 Political Processes divisions. Some boundaries are
● I can explain the processes that have shaped created by demilitarized zones or
contemporary political geography policy
○ Sovereignty ○ the Berlin Conference
○ Nation-states ● Land and maritime boundaries &
○ Self-determination international agreements can
● I can explain the processes that have influence national or regional identity
influenced contemporary political boundaries & encourage or discourage
○ Colonialism international or internal interactions
○ Imperialism & disputes over resources.
○ Independence movements ● The United Nations Convention on
○ Devolution along national lines the Law of the Sea
○ defines the rights &
4.3 Political Power and Territoriality responsibilities of nations in
● I can describe the concepts of political power the use of international
and territoriality as used by geographers. waters
○ Political power is expressed ○ established territorial seas
geographically as control over ○ exclusive economic zones
people, land, and resources
■ Neocolonialism 4.6 Internal Boundaries
■ Shatterbelts ● I can explain the nature and function of
■ Choke points international and internal boundaries.
○ Territoriality is the connection of ○ Election results at various scales can
people, their culture, and their be affected by
economic systems to the land. ■ Voting districts
■ Redistricting
4.4 Defining Political Boundaries ■ gerrymandering
● I can define political boundaries used by
geographers 4.7 Forms of Governance
○ Types of political boundaries ● I can define federal and unitary states.
 I CAN - Unit 4 Political Patterns and Processes - Study Guide
○ Forms of governance include unitary ○ trade agreements
states and federal states ○ military alliances
● I can explain how federal and unitary states ● Supranational organizations can
affect spatial organization challenge state sovereignty by
○ Unitary states tend to have a more limiting the economic or political
top-down, centralized form of actions of member states
governance ○ the United Nations (UN)
○ Federal states have more locally ○ North Atlantic Treaty
based, dispersed power centers Organization (NATO)
○ European Union (EU)
4.8 Defining Devolutionary Factors ○ Association of Southeast
● I can define factors that lead to the devolution Asian Nations (ASEAN)
of states ○ Arctic Council
○ the division of groups by physical ○ African Union
geography,
○ ethnic separatism 4.10 Consequences of Centrifugal and Centripetal
○ ethnic cleansing forces
○ terrorism ● I can explain how the concepts of centrifugal
○ economic and social problems and centripetal forces apply at the state scale.
○ Irredentism ○ Centrifugal forces may lead to
■ failed states
4.9 Challenges to Sovereignty ■ uneven development
● I can explain how political, economic, cultural, ■ stateless nations
and technological changes challenge state ■ ethnic nationalist
sovereignty movements
○ Devolution occurs when states ● Centripetal forces can lead to
fragment into autonomous regions ● Ethnonationalism
(subnational political-territorial units) ● more equitable
■ Spain infrastructure development
■ Belgium ● increased cultural cohesion.
■ Canada
■ Nigeria
○ Devolution occurs when states
disintegrate
■ Eritrea
■ South Sudan
■ East Timor
■ States that were part of the
former Soviet Union
● Advances in communication
technology have facilitated
○ devolution
○ Supranationalism
○ democratization
● Supranationalism is further helped by
○ Global efforts to address
transnational &
environmental challenges
○ create economies of scale