Unit 1.1 slideshow for political geography

1. Political Geography:
State and Nation
Watt, Sam. End of the United Kingdom. Souciant. Sep 9, 2014: http://souciant.com/2014/09/end-of-the-united-kingdom/

2. Mapsof.net. United Kingdom Labelled Map - United Kingdom maps.
Retrieved Sep 15, 2014: http://mapsof.net/map/united-kingdom-labelled-
map#.VBdQY0v5wds
United Kingdom?

3. Key terms & concepts:
• Theory
• Theory of nation and state
• Nation
• State
• Nation-State
• Ahead:
– Nation building
– State building
– Insurgent state

4. Key concepts
• Nation = people
• State = government unit
• Nation-state: when nation = state

5. United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Great Britain
British
Devolution
Republic of Ireland
Mapsof.net. United Kingdom Labelled Map - United Kingdom maps.
Retrieved Sep 15, 2014: http://mapsof.net/map/united-kingdom-labelled-
map#.VBdQY0v5wds

6. Ireland
CNN. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/
n.ireland/ireland.dublin.map.lg.jpg

7. Sinn Fein
[c.f., Irish
Republican
Army]

8. Retrieved August 24,
2010:
http://www.snp.org/

9. Guardian. European cartoons on the Brexit. March 20,
2016:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/20/bre
xit-silly-walk-best-political-cartoons-eu-europe-
referendum

10. CIA. Retrieved 1/25/06:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/globaltrends2015/754303.gif

12. Retrieved 3/14/06:
http://www.theodora.com/maps/new2/former
_yugoslavia_2.jpg
The former
Yugoslavia Club Lexus. Retrieved August 24, 2009:
http://clublexus.com/forums/car-chat/392728-
pimp-my-yugo-last-one-being-produced.html

13. Former Soviet Union
Prentice Hall. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/264/270888/Fig.%209.13%20Newly%20i
ndependent%20states%20of%20the%20former%20Soviet%20Union.gif

14. JEANNE WHALEN in Moscow and GUY CHAZAN in Sukhumi, Georgia. 2008. Moscow Is Likely to Recognize Breakaway Republics in Georgia.
Wall Street Journal August 21, 2008; Page A7. Retrieved August 26, 2008: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121923076375956371.html

15. Former Soviet Union
Prentice Hall. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/264/270888/Fig.%209.13%20Newly%20i
ndependent%20states%20of%20the%20former%20Soviet%20Union.gif

16. CNN. A divided Ukraine. March 3, 2014:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/world/ukraine-divided/

17. Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection. Retrieved
5/19/08:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/mid
dle_east_and_asia/china_ling_90.jp
g
China

18. Glassner & Fahrer 2004
Africabib. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://www.africabib.org/africatrans.gif
Africa

19. Jacobs, Frank. Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate
Continent. Strange Maps. http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-
uncolonized

20. Islam for Today. Retrieved January 18,
2006:
www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
Islam
Country with the world’s largest
population of Muslims?

21. Islam for Today. Retrieved January 18,
2006:
www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
Islam
Indonesia

22. • Islam: one of the world’s largest and
fastest-growing religions, based on the
revelations of God to the Prophet
Muhammad.
• Muslim (preferred, but also spelled
Moslem): “a follower” of the Islamic faith

23. “Islamic Front. Muslim nations in Africa.” University of
Texas Library. Retreived 09/15/09:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_islam_87.j
pg

24. World map
University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Retrieved January 10, 2006:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_political_ref01.pdf
“Middle East”

25. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Iraq: formally
dominant Sunni
minority, Shi’ite
majority
Kurdistan
Iran: Shi’ite
Moslem

26. Kurdish Democratic Association in
Sweden-lund. Retrieved January 17,
2006:
hem.passagen.se/kdfsltv/hist.html
Retrieved January 17, 2006: homepages.fh-
giessen.de/~hg11245/
Kurdistan

27. Economist. Iraq: is the surge going to fizzle? 8/19/07:
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9370680

28. Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq 1979 – 2003
• Favored Sunnis
• Discriminated against Shi’ites
• Persecuted Kurds
Nouri al-Maliki: Prime Minister of Iraq 2006 – 2014
• Favored Shi’ites
• Discriminated against Sunnis
• Seemed to leave Kurds alone
ISIS
• Favor those who follow their own, hyper-
conservative interpretation of Sunni Islam
• Persecute or kill everyone else

29. Washington Post Book World.
2006, August 6-12, p. 8.

30. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Iraq
Kurdistan
Iran

31. YAROSLAV TROFIMOV.
Warlord's Defection Shows
Afghan Risk. Wall Street
Journal. September 2, 2009:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB
125183668667977283.html

32. Spindle, Bill, and Gerald
Seib. 2014. Islamist
Militants Aim to Redraw
Map of the Middle East.
Wall Street Journal. June
12:
http://online.wsj.com/articl
es/islamist-militants-aim-
to-redraw-map-of-the-
middle-east-1402620168

33. Altlearn Map Network. 8/23/06: http://www.alternative-learning.org/international/meast.gif

34. Retrieved August 31, 2016:
http://syriancivilwarmap.com/

35. Unimaps. Retrieved January 18, 2006: unimaps.com/israel/
Israel & Palestine

36. Eurpopean Union.
Retrieved 8/24/06:
http://ec.europa.eu/co
mm/external_relations/
gaza/intro/index.htm
“Palestine”
Hamas
Fatah

37. Palestine
Palestine net.
Retrieved
January 18,
2006:
http://www.pal
estine-
net.com/
Palestine net. Retrieved
January 18, 2006:
http://www.palestine-
net.com/geography/gifs/pal
map.gif

38. France-Palestine Organization. Retrieved 8/24/06:
www.france-palestine.org/article318.html