GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 14: Geopolitics and State Stability/Instability
Document Summary
The study of the importance of space in understanding international relations. Consider: economic globalization and concretion of power in global alliances (i. e. nafta, eu, etc. ) Global supply chains are connected to training relationships with things like nafta and european union each as on economic unit. Countries that are part of development and underdeveloped world. Countries that are developed are former colonizers and underdeveloped countries are colonies. Western, cultural and economic values onto other parts of the world. Whats been emerged in that time frame has been china and asia. Modern countries; a series of geopolitical forces working over a period of time. The bringing together of (potentially diverse) nations into one (multinational) sovereign state. Geopolitical forces have brought together different cultural groups together within a single sovereign state. The breaking apart of (potentially similar) nations into two (or more) sovereign states.