AP Human Geography Political Geography Learning Targets Updated 8/20/2013 Topic Territorial Dimensions of Politics Learning Targets I can identify ways that territoriality affects interaction at different scales. Academic Vocabulary Territoriality at different scales Manifest destiny Political Power I can describe the process involved in setting boundaries and give examples of different types of boundaries. Boundary definition Boundary delimitation Boundary demarcation Natural/Physical-political boundary Ethnographic/Cultural-political boundary Geometric boundary Antecedent boundary Subsequent boundary Superimposed boundary Border landscape I can evaluate the influence of boundaries on group identity, human interaction and patterns of exchange. Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, prorupt, elongated, perforated) Microstate (and examples) exclave (and examples) enclave (and examples) Armenia/Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) Landlocked states Definitional boundary disputes Locational boundary disputes Operational boundary disputes Allocational boundary disputes UNCLOS Territorial sea Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) I can describe the nature, meaning, and function of boundaries. Median Line Principle South China Sea Global Commons Apartheid I can define and give examples of different political organization of states. Federal state Unitary state Confederations Centralized government Forms of governance I can explain the relationships between policital patterns and patterns of ethnicity, gender, economy and environment. Immanuel Wallerstein World Systems Analysis Core/periphery/semi-periphery Cores and peripheries at different scales Primate city Forward capital Multicore state Geopolitics Balance of Power Friedrich Ratzel (Organic Theory) Raison d’etre Sir Halford Mackinder (Heartland Theory) Nickolas Spykman (Rimland Theory) Domino Theory Containment Shatterbelt Cold War (and legacy) Bipolar/multipolar world Political ecology (impacts of law and policy on the environment and environmental justice) Gateway state (and examples) Buffer state (and examples) Satellite state Nunuvut Arab-Israeli Conflict Lebanon Tribalism Topic Evolution of the contemporary political pattern Topic Changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements Learning Targets I can describe the historical factors contributing to the rise of nation states and trace the diffusion of the European model. Academic Vocabulary Rise of ancient states City-state Rise of the nation-state Mercantilism Economic nationalism Treaty of Westphalia Diffusion of the European model I can define and give examples of terms associated with the concept of the nation state. Nation (and examples) State (and examples) Nation-state (and examples) Stateless nation (and examples) Multinational state (and examples) Multistate Nation (and examples) I can describe patterns of colonial control and its effect on those areas that were colonized. Colonialism (definition and colonial patterns) Economic effects Political effects Social effects Treaty ports Berlin Conference Colonial mandate system Decolonization I can trace the spread of democracy in the world. Democratization I can describe identify and describe patterns of governance. local regional metropolitan Learning Targets I can discuss factors contributing to the changing nature of sovereignty and identify threats to the state from above and below. Academic Vocabulary Sovereignty Sanctions Quasi-states (and examples) Effect of globalization on sovereignty Threats to the state (from above and below) NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) I can describe processes contributing to political fragmentation and cohesion at the state level. I can describe processes contributing to the formation of alliances and give examples. I can describe the processes of supranationalism and devolution and give examples of each. Centripetal forces (and examples) Centrifugal forces (and examples) Iconography ASEAN NAFTA MERCOSUR ECOWAS NATO Warsaw Pact SEATO African Union Arab League Supranationalism (and examples) International Alliances League of Nations (formation, accomplishments, demise) United Nations (formation and role) Agencies of the UN (FAO, UNESCO, WHO, IAEA, IMF, UNPO) European Union (background, policies, issues) Benelux Common Market EC Euroregions Devolution (and examples) Balkanization Breakup of Yugoslavia Ethnic cleansing Irredentism (and examples) Separatist movements (and examples) Breakup of Czechoslovakia (The Velvet Divorce) Breakup of the Soviet Union Fall of communism Legacy of Cold War Russia’s “Near Abroad” Chechnya I can draw conclusions about the factors that influence distributions shown on electoral maps at different scales. Electoral maps Reapportionment Redistricting Gerrymandering I can define terrorism, cite historical and contemporary examples and discuss reasons for the distribution of terrorist activities. Terrorism (definition and examples) Geographic distribution of terrorist activity Al Qaeda Osama bin Laden Armed conflicts War I can discuss changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements due to armed conflicts, war, and terrorism.