5 Written Questions

1. geographic separation between the largely democratic and free-market states of Western Europe and the Americas from the communist and socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia.
2. cartographers put the boundary on the map
3. a state whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity (e.g., Japan, Portugal, Venezuela, Armenia, Iceland, ...).
4. legal document or treaty drawn up to specify actual points in the landscape
5. a venture of three or more states (sometimes two or more) involving formal economic, political, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. Some examples ...

5 Matching Questions

1. -Operational
2. Boundary
3. -Protruded
4. -Perforated
5. -Territorial sea

1. a territory completely surrounds that of another state (e.g., Italy, Azerbaijan,...)
2. b neighbors differ over the way the boundary should function (migration, smuggling) (e.g., US/Mexico)
3. c vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above (even outer space).
4. d states' territory extending 12 nautical miles (1 nautical mile = 1.15 statute miles) from the coast (since 1982); regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, although foreign ships (both military and civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below.
5. e a.k.a. prorupt; have an area that extends from a more compact core (e.g, Thailand, India,...)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Poverty rates have fallen and real incomes have risen in Mexico, but farmers haven't fared well due to cheaper food from US agribusiness; also US manufacturing workers have lost jobs to maquiladora plants in Mexico (mostly due to cheaper labor costs).
   1. Immigrant state
   2. Microstate (ministate)
   3. -North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
   4. Multicore state
2. mark breaks in the human landscape (Armenia/Azerbaijan)
   1. Core-periphery
   2. -Cultural-political
   3. Forward capital
   4. Electoral regions
3. a state model based on inviolable territory (after the Peace of Westphalia), governmental sovereignty (possessing supreme or independent political power), permanent population with a national culture, and a state capital. This model was spread globally due to the Age of Exploration (and Colonization).
   1. -European Union (EU)
   2. -Locational
   3. European Model
   4. -Protruded
4. area where borders are shifting and weak, and where peoples of different cultures or nationalities meet and lay claim to the land (e.g., Amazon Basin, Antarctica, between Saudi Arabia and Yemen).
   1. State
   2. Frontier
   3. -Relict
   4. Nation
5. politically organized territory administered by a sovereign government, with a permanent population, and recognized by the international community ("State" = internal division; "state" = country).
   1. -Relict
   2. Genesis
   3. Exclave
   4. State

5 True/False Questions

1. Domino theory → (Nicholas Spykman) mid 20th c. theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia (the "rimland") would provide the base for world conquest (not the "heartland").

   True        False

2. -United Nations (UN) → union of 27 democratic member states of Europe; began with the formation of Benelux by the end of WWII, then with the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC) years later. The EU's activities cover most areas of public policy, from economic policy to foreign affairs, defense, agriculture and trade. The European Union is the largest political and economic entity on the European continent, with over 500 million people and an estimated GDP of >US$18 trillion (2008).

   True        False

3. Buffer zone (state) → a state governed constitutionally as a unit, without internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers

   True        False

4. -European Union (EU) → a state model based on inviolable territory (after the Peace of Westphalia), governmental sovereignty (possessing supreme or independent political power), permanent population with a national culture, and a state capital. This model was spread globally due to the Age of Exploration (and Colonization).

   True        False

5. Immigrant state → a type of receiving state which is the target of many immigrants. Immigrant states are popular because of their economy, political freedom, and opportunity (e.g., US (from Mexico & others, Germany (from Turkey and others),...).

   True        False