Unit 7.4-7.5 Flashcards
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What is a Boundary?
Separates political territories - a vertical line that goes all the way up to the sky down to the ground.
Subsequent
Boundaries created after an area was settled - these are often subject to change due to processes like war or migration.
Superimposed
Boundaries made by outsiders who do not consider cultural facts.
What does it mean to define a boundary?
By using legal documents to define where boundaries are located.
What does it mean to delimit a boundary?
By cartographers making the maps.
What does it mean to demarcate a boundary?
Placing something physical like a fence or wall along it.
What does it mean to administrate a boundary?
The process of deciding who and/or what may cross.
Geometric boundary
Use grid systems; for example, latitude and longitude.
Physical-political boundary
Use physical characteristics of the terrain. For example: rivers (middle point) or mountains (crest).
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Seas
Countries agreed to abide by the same oceanic boundaries.
Territorial sea
A country’s sovereignty extends 12 nautical miles into the sea.
The high seas
An area past the 12-mile boundary.
The admiralty law
Applies (part of international law), not the laws of any country.
Exclusive Economic Zone
A country’s exclusive economic rights extend 200 nautical miles (all natural resources, like fisheries, oil and gas).
Boundary disputes: operational
Centers on the administration of a boundary.
Boundary disputes: allocational
Concentrates on disagreements over rights to natural resources.
Geopolitics
How international relations interacts with geography; it focuses on location and territory and their relation to politics and power.
Containment Theory
Constrain communist countries.
Buffer states (in the Cold War)
Countries that were friendly with each other.
Domino effect
When the countries fall down one at a time.
Supranational organization
An alignment of three or more countries to pursue common objectives through a bureaucratic structure.
What are two examples for SO?
- United Nations (after World War 2): peace-keeping, health and human rights.
- (OPEC) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: oil cartel.
