GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Political Geography
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Now interested in all the small countries. Each regard themselves as what we could call a nation-state. The nation state comes to represent the ideal until of countries and political geography. Uses the idea of sovereignty which deals with who is in control of that space. Italy at first was a bunch of small little areas. Italy decided they have a country and now they must form a nation. Nationalism the feeling of belonging to a nation as well as a belief that a nation has a natural right to determine its own affairs. Nation: a group of people often sharing common elements of culture, such as religion or language, or a history or political identity. State: independent political unit with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other political units.