POLS 2940 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ottoman Empire, Rhine, Political Geography
27 Sep 2016
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The question: forms of political and geographical organization. Division of world into territorial units (states), is artificial and arbitrary. Land owned by church in rome, lands in germany owned by french princes and vice versa. Bounded space: territory that is land claimed by a country: bordered power container, important because: leads to idea of boundary or border. State able to command absolute control within that area without involvement of other forces. Other political groupings like rebel forces or independence movements are by nature illegitimate/without moral or legal justification. Illustrative example: the development of the european territorial state. Not all political organizations have the same relation to space. Ancient greece, the roman empire and the middle ages. Ancient greek city-state (polis), earliest forms of political unit in europe. Dominated greek political culture between 8th and 3rd centuries before common era. Had centralized source of power, broader extent where it reached out to neighbouring land.
