GEOG 316 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paul Vidal, Westphalian Sovereignty, Geostrategy
1 Oct 2018
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1648 peace of westphalia: established that a single monarch and/or government could rule over a single, unified territory. Environmental determinism (ratzel) - people live in places because they are suited to those places. "genre de vie" - places shape people, people shape places; give and take (paul vidal de la blanche) Pivot areas - controlling certain areas could mean controlling the world (eastern europe; harold. Geostrategy - access to and control over the sea makes states strong (alfred thayer mahan) Individualist theory - voters act as they do because of personal values. Conceptualist - v. 1: not person, but place or v. 2: social network in place. Place-situated context - what happens in place uniquely impacts voting patterns. Context-as-place (agnew) - the context is the place in which voter decisions are made. Max weber"s definition of state (1919): - "monopoly of legitimate use of physical violence" Charles tilly"s definition of state connected it to organized crime (1985)
