Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: North American Free Trade Agreement, Dont, Geopolitik
5 Dec 2012
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Political geography studies the spatial dimension of human conflict and cooperation on this planet. Meaning political geography studies the actions of governments and institutions rather than those of actual people. Essentially, political geographers are interesting in how humans . How those nations can form the foundation of states. How states claim space as their territory. How states compete for territory and negotiate boundaries between each other. A group of people that share a common cultural trait/feature/identity. Cultural trait can be: a common mother tongue (ex: welsh or basque, a common ethnic ancestry (ex: ojibway, a common religion (ex: christianity, a common history (ex: newfoundland) The state is an area (as in a country) and a political institution (as in the authorities) It covers a distinct space (the territory : the limits of the territory are defined by boundaries to neighbouring states, the territory is ruled by one government that exercise power over the territory and those that live within it.
