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Chapter 17 Test
The Changing Global Political Landscape
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Geography
9th Grade
02/22/2009

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Term
Over the past 100 years the human population has grown how much?
Definition
4 times
Term
What is the idea of a world in which the balance of mutual opposition and nuclear terror between superpowers would no longer determine the destinies of states?
Definition
New World Order
Term
What field combines geography with some aspects of political science?
Definition
Geopolitics
Term
_________ _______ tends to focus on governmental institutions, systems, and interactions, ___________ brings locational, environmental, and territorial perspectives to the fore?
Definition
Political Science; Geopolitics
Term
What was designed, in part, to enhance its members' competitiveness in the world at large?
Definition
European Union
Term
T/F: Supranationalism can result in strong centrifugal and centripetal forces within a state?
Definition
True
Term
What is the process by which forces divide and destabilize a state which turn it into a reverse of evolution?
Definition
Devolution
Term
How many territorial components are within the United Kingdom?
Definition
4
Term
What is at the heart of most devolutionary movements?
Definition
Ethnonational or economic difference
Term
What is it called when people share a well-developed sense of belonging to the same cultural group?
Definition
Ethnic Group
Term
People sharing a strong sense of what ethnicity feel that they are part of a group with similar what?
Definition
Origin and cultural histor
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What can be a fundamental force promoting devolution?
Definition
Ethnonationalism
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T/F: All states with ethnonationalist movements are at risk of breaking apart?
Definition
False
Term
What is at the root of many states' devolutionary problems?
Definition
A much stronger sense of ethnocultural fragmentation
Term
How many states are in the world?
Definition
200
Term
T/F: Devolutionary forces can be found in young and old states?
Definition
True
Term
How many Autonomous Communities and further decentralizing powers were created in Spain?
Definition
17
Term
Belgium was a founding member of what two supranational powers?
Definition
Benelux and the EEC
Term
Where is the European Union's headquarters?
Definition
Brussels
Term
What two countries succumbed to devolutionary pressures in Parts of Eastern Europe?
Definition
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
Term
What two groups were divided in Czechoslovakia?
Definition
Czechs and Slovaks
Term
T/F: Slovakia is homogeneous?
Definition
False
Term
What percent of the population of Slovakia is Hungarian?
Definition
11%
Term
Yugoslavia was home to how many major and how many minor ethnic and cultural groups?
Definition
7; 17
Term
How many republics was Yugoslavia divided into?
Definition
Six
Term
Out of the six republics of former Yugoslavia which one was not dominated by a major group?
Definition
Bosnia
Term
What six states came from the former Yugoslavia?
Definition
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro
Term
What percent of the Bosnians are Muslim?
Definition
44%
Term
What percent of the Bosnians are members of the Serbian Orthodox Church?
Definition
31%
Term
What percent of the Bosnians are Croatian Catholics?
Definition
17%
Term
In 1994 the Serbs of Bosnia controlled what percent of Bosnia?
Definition
70%
Term
How big is the barrier that runs from Bosnia's NW corner to its SW corner.
Definition
621 mile long and 4 mile wide
Term
After the U.S. drew a new map of Bosnia, what percent of the country was Serb-dominated?
Definition
48%
Term
T/F: Ethnonational differences are weakening the fabric of many states in today's global political framework?
Definition
True
Term
Where is the chief problem of France located?
Definition
island of Corsica
Term
What is one common feature that devolutionary forces have in common?
Definition
They most often occur on the margins of states
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