GEOG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Merchant Capitalism, Gateway Cities, Viktor Yanukovych
27 Oct 2017
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The state (cid:862)territorialized political power(cid:863: territory, controlled by the state, an apparatus that makes collectively binding decisions, a resident population subject to state authority (bob jessop) The (cid:862)idea of the state(cid:863: state is more than a set of institutions, also relies upon ideas or beliefs that endow the state with particular power, and distinguish it from other forms of power. Multinational state: state comprising more than one nation: state territory does not align with national territory (e. g. nigeria) Regional movements: regionalism: a feeling of collective identity based on a population"s identification with a region, sectionalism: extreme expression of regionalism, possibly expressed by the desire to separate. Ukrainian crisis (ukraine: a multinational state: november 2013: president yanukovych leans toward russia, protests erupt, yanukovych flees to russia, russia begins to mobilize in eastern ukraine and crimea. Annexation: feb 2014: putin sends troops to crimea to (cid:862)protect russian crimeans"(cid:863, pro-russian government established, votes to join russia, sanctions imposed.
