Our Post-test Agenda

Evaluation– PowerPoint?– Assignment– Tests?

Four Little Tigers South-East Asia

– Major qualities and influences– Political geography concepts

Major Geographic Qualities

Fragmentation– Rugged, high relief, crustal

instability, and tropical climates Clustered population distribution Poor intraregional communications

– Political fragmentation Colonialism…again! instability Shatter belt – persistent fracturing

– Cultural fragmentation ethnic, linguistic, and religious

Timor-Leste

Political Geography

A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior

Key terms– Supranationalism– Balkanization– Irredentism– Geopolitics– Devolution

Friedrich Ratzel (1844 - 1904)

State Territorial Morphology

Compact- Cambodia Protruded (corridor)- Thailand Elongated (attenuated 6:1)-

Vietnam Fragmented- Phillipines Perforated (enclave)- South

Africa The impact of shape?

Shapes of

States

Boundaries

Definition – textual, as in treaty

Delimitation- cartographic Demarcation-surveyed with

monuments, fences or barriers