GRG 305 Midterm: GRG 305 Lecture 10
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For our purposes (and the purposes of political geographers in general) state is synonymous with country. D. supply public goods (like roads and education) regulate economic relations seek legitimacy in the eyes of citizens direct relations with other states. A nation is a group of people with a claim to a shared past, common culture, and collective destiny. A. the active defense of national interests, either in a nation-state framework (where it is called patriotism) or outside of such framework (where it is called by various names such as treason and separatism, and usually suppressed violently) These observations do not apply to the us, canada, australia, and new zealand. But in many ways, native peoples in these countries do suffer from a postcolonial situation. 1. a bit of a state that is separated from the rest of the state. Kaliningrad (a russian exclave bordering lithuania and poland on the baltic sea) Assumes world is governed by force rather than cooperation.
