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Our Post-test Agenda Evaluation –PowerPoint? –Assignment –Tests? Four Little Tigers South-East Asia –Major qualities and influences –Political geography concepts
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Major Geographic Qualities Fragmentation –Rugged, high relief, crustal instability, and tropical climates Clustered population distribution Poor intraregional communications –Political fragmentation Colonialism…again! instability Shatter belt – persistent fracturing –Cultural fragmentation ethnic, linguistic, and religious
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Timor-Leste
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Political Geography A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior Key terms –Supranationalism –Balkanization –Irredentism –Geopolitics –Devolution Friedrich Ratzel (1844 - 1904)
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State Territorial Morphology Compact- Cambodia Protruded (corridor)- Thailand Elongated (attenuated 6:1)- Vietnam Fragmented- Phillipines Perforated (enclave)- South Africa The impact of shape?
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Shapes of States
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Boundaries Definition – textual, as in treaty Delimitation- cartographic Demarcation-surveyed with monuments, fences or barriers
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