Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Acronym, Halford Mackinder, Multi-Level Governance
30 Jan 2017
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Geopolitics: an approach to foreign policy analysis that understands the actions, relationships and significance of states in terms of geographical factors like location, climate, natural resources, physical terrain and population. Alfred mahan argued that the state tat controls the seas would control world politics, and. Halford mackinder, who suggested that control of the land mass between germany and central siberia is the key to controlling world politics. Territory: a delimited geographical area that is under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority. Centralization: the concentration of political power or government authority at the national level. Decentralization: expansion of local autonomy through the transfer of powers and responsibilities away from national bodies. Multilevel governance: a complex policy process which political authority is distributed at different levels of territorial aggregation. Vertical conception of multilevel governance takes account of the interdependence of actors in policy process at subnational, national and transnational levels - creating a fluid process of negotiation.
