Answer explanation
I need an explanation why each of the below answer is the right answer.
1. As a result of the geopolitics of world war II, political geography as a discipline went through an era of
Answer: marginalization, when the discipline lost influence and became apolitical.
2. According to Mackinder, how would changing transportation technologies cause global power centers to shift?
Answer: From Britain to Eurasia.
3. Which of the following is a critique of functionalist political geography?
Answer: It does not question power relations and political structures.
4. Which one of the following describes a threat to state’s external sovereignty?
Answer: mafias and other criminal gangs residing within the territory.
5. With its sovereignty split vertically between two levels, the United States is an example of __________state arrangement.
Answer: Federal
6. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 marked the beginning of which of these?
Answer: the modern state system based on territorial sovereignty.
7. What is the main purpose of the state according to pluralist state theory?
Answer: the state mediates and adjudicates among multiple interests.
8. Painter’s (2006) concept of statization refers to which process?
Answer: the state becomes part of many aspects of social life and practice.
9. Why does Painter (2006) say that we should not reify the state?
Answer: The state is not a distinct, idenfiable thing.
10. What does Garmany’s (2009) Pirambu favela case study demonstrates?
Answer: The relative order in Pirambu is maintained by residents who want to be good citizens despite the absence of the state.
11. Which statement best describes new localism?
Answer: It is decentralized mode of governance that places more responsibility in local communities.
12. Which of the f0ollowing statements about the relationship between states and nations is TRUE?
Answer: States can be used to promote the interests of one nation over another.
13. Which of the following matches a classical modernist theory of nations?
Answer: Nations are recent phenomenon associated with modernity.
14. Access to opportunities such as education and health care are considered which type of citizenship?
Answer: Social
15. Which statement about Haitian descendants born in the Dominican Republic is TRUE?
Answer: They were recently granted de jure citizenship status.
16. Which statement about the Kayapo is TRUE?
Answer: They have lost respect in Brazilian national politics.
17. Why did Panama’s revolution fail?
Answer: External sanctions did not undermine the regime.
18. Control over a territory is sufficient to guarantee sovereignty.
Answer: False
19. The U.S Supreme Court is part of the coercive state apparatus.
Answer: True.
20. According to Nepstad (2011), revolutionary movements will likely result to a strategy of violence if they view the people as the source of the ruler’s power.
Answer: False.
