Reading:

• Rubenstein Chapter 7: Ethnicities [Key Issues 2-4]

• Rubenstein Chapter 8: Political Geography [Key Issues 1-4]

 

Outcomes

A. Territorial dimensions of politics

1. The concept of territoriality

2. Drawing boundaries: global, national, local

3. Historical development of boundaries and states

4. Federal and unitary states

5. Spatial relationships between politics, ethnicity, economics, and the environment

B. Contemporary Political Patterns

1. Nation-States

2. Colonialism and neocolonialism

3. Democratization

C. Cooperation and Conflict in political-territorial arrangements

1. Changing sovereignty

2. Alliances

3. Devolution/Supranationalism

4. Conflicts/Terrorism

5. Gerrymandering

D. Thinking Geographically