GEOG 020 Lecture 3: Political Geography and Ethnicity
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Political geography - the study of the political organization of the world. Critical geopolitics - powerful states construct ideas about places, which influence political behaviors. Frontier - an area that is largely uninhabited; zone where no state exercises political control. Antarctica : global common - countries that do not have the right to search for natural resources here. Parts of saudi arabia; between saudi arabia and yemen; northwestern pakistan. Commonwealth - territories that have established a mutual agreement for the benefit of both parties. Puerto rico and the northern mariana islands - gain full u. s. citizenship rights except representation in congress. Exclave: territory belonging to a state but separated from that state by another state. Alaska - separated from the u. s. by canada. Kaliningrad - separated from russia by several eastern european countries. Enclave: a country that is completely surrounded by another political state, also a landlocked country. Vatican city and san marino in italy.
