Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Investment Banking, Asia-Pacific, Offshoring
7 Apr 2013
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Political geography studies the spatial dimension of human conflict and cooperation on this planet. Scale of study: traditionally at the state level. Meaning political geography studies the actions of governments and institutions rather than those of actual people. How those nations can form the foundation of states. How states compete for territory and negotiate boundaries between each other. A common mother tongue (e. g. welsh or basque) The limits of the territory are defined by borders to neighbouring states. The territory is ruled by one government that exercise power over the territory and those that live within it. A clearly-defined large group of people who self-identify as a group and occupy a spatially-defined territory with necessary infrastructure, social and political institutions. Nations that do not currently have a state of. Examples include: the basque living in northern spain and southern france want to form their own state their own. Where a state"s population is formed by two or more distinct nations.
