GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: North American Free Trade Agreement, Railways Act 1921, Economic Globalization
14 Mar 2017
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Examples: czechoslovakia and yugoslavia: centrifugal and centripetal forces, secessionist movements: i. e. europe, kurdistan. State instability: examples: africa & europe, grouping of states. Geopolitics: the study of the relations among/between geography, states, and power. Several important geopolitical dimensions exist: consider the cold war and superpowers, consider economic globalization and concentration of power in global alliances (nafta, Eu, etc. : consider colonialism and development, co(cid:374)sider: cultural a(cid:374)d e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) (cid:862)i(cid:373)perialis(cid:373)(cid:863) Such forces are always present for every country. These geopolitical forces are known as: centrifugal forces, centripetal forces. Centrifugal forces are typically related to: cultural homogeneity/heterogeneity how homo/heterogenous is the country, cultural history, boundaries. State instability: results from divisions within the state. Secessionist movements: nations within multinational states that want to create their own separate state: e. g. quebec, scotland, belgium, basque (spain & france) tied to a strong sense of nationalism. Independence: slower than elsewhere (i. e. the americas: dependence: impoverished colonies, too dependent on the colonial power, discordance between nations and colonial states.
