GEOG 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: De Jure, De Facto, Social Stratification
Document Summary
Origins and historical development of the modern territorial state system. Various ways in which the territorial state is constituted and reproduced. Challenges to the state, from above and below. Short definition: supreme authority within a territory. Longer short definition: a legal principle which holds that final authority over social, economic and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. Territory is the basis by which members of a political community are to be defined. Political autonomy: no external actor exercises authority within the borders of the state. De jure sovereignty: legal right or recognition of sovereignty by other states. De facto sovereignty: degree of actual control that a state authority has over its territory. The republic of china taiwan (west), chinese taipei (peoples republic of. China) held china"s seat in the united nations until 1971. Now it is officially recognized by only a handful of states, most located in the caribbean.
