APHG

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APHG Changes your perspective!

• Where is the arrow???

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GEOPOLITICS

• What it is gtgt
• (Fill in your handy dandy geographers chart. ?)

• The power of the state to control space or
  territory and shape foreign policy of individual
  states and international relations.

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The seven laws of state growth are

• 1.   The space of the state grows with the
  expansion of the population having the same
  culture.
• 2.   Territorial growth follows other aspects of
  development.
• 3.   A state grows by absorbing smaller units.
• 4.   The frontier is the peripheral organ of the
  state that reflects the strength and growth of
  the state hence it is not permanent.

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The seven laws of state growth are

• 5.   States in the course of their growth seek to
  absorb politically valuable territory.
• 6.   The impetus for growth comes to a primitive
  state from a more highly developed civilization.
• 7.   The trend toward territorial growth is
  contagious and increases in the process of
  transmission.

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Shape - Can affect a state by fostering or
hindering effective organization.

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• Compact The most efficient form.
• A state whose territory is nearly circular.
  Because all places could be reached from the
  center in a minimal amount of time making it the
  most efficient for roads, railway lines, other
  infrastructure.

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• Prorupt - A state that is nearly compact but
  possess one or two narrow extensions of
  territory, which isolates a portion of the state.
  

• The proruption can be a physical (penninsula)
  elongation of land or may have economic or
  strategic significance access to resources,
  sea, establishment of a buffer zone, etc

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• Elongated A state whose territory is long and
  narrow. The least efficient shape
  administratively. It may sacrifice national
  cohesion to promote eco strength.

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• Fragmented Entirely made up of islands or
  terr. Is separated by another state.
• - contains isolated parts, separate and
  discontinuous.

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•   Perforated - A state that completely surrounds
  a territory that it does not rule.
• That area is called an enclave and it may be
  independent or part of another state.
• (Enclaves are terr. outliers located inside
  another state.)
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THEORIES- Bring out your theories chart. ?

• Organic state gt Friedrich Ratzel

• The state is an organism conforming to natural
  laws and forced to grow expand into new
  territories in order to secure resources needed
  for survival.
• An Environmental Determinist also

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Heartland Theory

• Halford Mackinder

• World power is based on the assumption that the
  land based state controlling the EURASIAN
  heartland has the key to world domination.

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Rimland Theory

• Spykman
• The state controlling the area AROUND the area
  surrounding the Eurasian heartland has the key to
  world domination.

• Balance of power issuegt divide the Rimland to
  keep one state from dominating

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Sea Power Theory

• Alfred Mahan
• US
• Interested in maritime (sea) boundaries

• Who ever controls the seas, controls the world
• Used the British as an example gt they controlled
  world commerce

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Domino Theory

• Destabilization from any cause in 1 country can
  result in the collapse of order in a neighboring
  country leading to a chain of events that affect
  adjoining states in turn.

• 1st applied during the Cold War.
• Was applied to E. Europe, Vietnam, Cuba.