GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Constitutional Monarchy, Extreme Poverty, Nationstates
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1/25/18: political geography, countries or states (geographical territories, nations (culture/ethnicity, nationalism. There are nation-states, such as japan, but there are also stateless nations, as the kurds. Forms of government: democratic republicans, democratic constitutional monarchies, authoritarian republics, absolute monarchies. Means of government: democracy, on the increase for sometime, democracy has been losing some ground recently, autocracy, anocracy, theocracy, a(cid:374)d others . Failed states (100+ fsi score) are those with no effective central government they are an increasing problem (cid:838)insurgent states(cid:839) often exercise territorial control within failed states. Some countries have large militaries and military budgets: china has largest military personal, the danger of conflict increases as more countries develop nuclear weapons. International coalitions: bilateral and multilateral alliances, regional, foundations include common economic and cultural interests as well as political ones, some coalitions are based on cultural affinity. Political and economic-un: economic regions, world bank classification, low income (per capita gnp or gni, low middle income, high middle income, high income.
