GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neocolonialism, Vertical Plane, Stateless Nation
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Study the effect of political actions on human geog. The study of states groupings and global relations: territoriality. A country"s or local community"s sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended (text pg. A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political manners should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states (text, pp. Gaza: it"s a country but it"s not recognized internationally: boundaries. Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below (called the subsoil), and the airspace above the surface, dividing one state territory from another (text, pp. Ex iraq stealing oil from quait but it was underneath quait. = has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states (text, p. 51) Nation-state: a politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space.