GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Political Geography, Neocolonialism, Geopolitics
Document Summary
Geopolitical = the links and casual relationships between political power and geographic space and natural resources. Boundaries and borders give power for example korea. Scale : size and extent of countries has had a significant role of countries gaining power. Spatial power: imperialism and colonialism; militarism; neo-colonialism england gained spatial power by colonizing other areas. Control of territory/resources/population controlling one"s territory has to do with controlling the resources and has a lot to do with controlling the population. Economic institutions: tnc"s, world bank, eu, trading blocs. Nationalist movements- movements within countries to try to claim the rights to govern themselves. Kleptocracies - states getting to power and stealing from the public and stealing the country"s money. State-sponsored corruption, anarchistic economies (economy where nobody has control over), failed states. Collapse of soviet bloc and end of cold war, 1989. New power relations, re-drawing of the geopolitical map. Breakdown of last barriers to the global economy.
