PSCI 2054 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Communes Of France, Shahada, Consociationalism
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Physical and human geography: physical geography depictions of terrain such as continents, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans, human geography depiction of human activities over physical terrain b. i. Physical geography: contact between communities in the international system makes geography poverty levels political systems agricultural land use national borders. Seaports important component of global trade and naval power a. ii. Transportation routes depends on infrastructure, and control impacts access a. iii. Mapping maps useful for trade, exploration, and conquest a. iv. Natural resources critical component of state power a. v. Geopolitics: early approach to international relations that explained national power and state behavior in terms of physical geography, halford mackinder"s geopolitics argued that the heartland of europe held special significance for global domination. Iv: the deterministic approach of geopolitics has fallen out of favor. Human geography: use of maps to depict human activity a. i. Demography focus is on data about populations such as literacy, life expectancy, per capita income, etc a. ii.
