GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Oil Platform, Nationstates, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Politics: social/cultural rules & institutions for control and administration of people. Sealand: offshore platform in n. sea (near england)- sovereign country: states: independent political unit- defined, permanently populated territory (administrative regions- defined boundaries internationally recognized) and having full sovereign control over its internal & foreign affairs; states are countries. About 200 states in the world (u. s. recognizes taiwan as separate country while. China might not: nations: group of people with a common culture occupying a particular territory; people self-identify with nation they inhabit. Current or historical claim to homeland (where culture originated) Japanese is the nation, japan is the nation-state: all combinations of nations and states exist, nation-states: a state/country whose territory contains only one nationality. Ex: japan, sweden, costa rica, poland (mostly polish: multinational states: states containing multiple nationalities. Ex: canada, u. s. , switzerland (speak swiss german, french, italian: multi-state nation: nation spreading across multiple countries/states.
