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| Who uses the spatial perspective to study political systems from local and regional politics, to national politics, to international politics? |
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| According to what two geographers, is political geography considered within the context of two complementary perspectives? |
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| Paul Knox and Sallie Marston |
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| What does the first perspective of Paul Knox and Sallie Marston focus on? |
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| The imprints of economic, cultural, and physical geography on political systems |
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| What does the second perspective of Paul Knox and Sallie Marston focus on? |
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| The views political systems as the driving force behind different country's economic and cultural systems |
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| What are the three geographic scales that most political geographers focus their studies on? |
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| Local politics, national politics, and international politics |
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| What is the fundamental unit of political geography? |
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| What is an example of a nation without a state? |
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| When and where did our modern concept of the nation-state arise? |
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| T/F: Many of today's states must constantly represent themselves as unified nations, despite the tremendous historic and cultural divides they contain? |
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| What are three example of states that have states but no nations? |
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| Afghanistan, Indonesia, Rwanda |
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