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Our Post-test Agenda. Evaluation PowerPoint? Assignment Tests? Four Little Tigers South-East Asia Major qualities and influences Political geography concepts. Major Geographic Qualities. Fragmentation Rugged, high relief, crustal instability, and tropical climates
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Our Post-test Agenda • Evaluation • PowerPoint? • Assignment • Tests? • Four Little Tigers • South-East Asia • Major qualities and influences • Political geography concepts
Major Geographic Qualities • Fragmentation • Rugged, high relief, crustal instability, and tropical climates • Clustered population distribution • Poor intraregional communications • Political fragmentation • Colonialism…again! • instability • Shatter belt – persistent fracturing • Cultural fragmentation • ethnic, linguistic, and religious
Political Geography • A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior • Key terms • Supranationalism • Balkanization • Irredentism • Geopolitics • Devolution • Friedrich Ratzel (1844 - 1904)
State Territorial Morphology • Compact- Cambodia • Protruded (corridor)- Thailand • Elongated (attenuated 6:1)- Vietnam • Fragmented- Phillipines • Perforated (enclave)- South Africa • The impact of shape?
Boundaries • Definition – textual, as in treaty • Delimitation- cartographic • Demarcation-surveyed with monuments, fences or barriers