Slideshow on “State & nation, continued” for Political Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Dept. of Geography & Geology, The University of Southern Mississippi

1. State & nation, continued, etc.
• Theory
• Theory of nation and state
• Nation
• State
• Nation-State
• Insurgent state
• Ahead:
– Nation building
– State building
– Iconography
– Failed state
© Mark M. Miller
Political Geography
Dept. of Geography & Geology
The University of Southern Mississippi/

2. Economist. Iraq: is the surge going to fizzle? 8/19/07:
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3. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Kurdistan

4. Kurdish Democratic Association in
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5. YAROSLAV TROFIMOV.
Warlord's Defection Shows
Afghan Risk. Wall Street
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6. Spindle, Bill, and Gerald
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middle-east-1402620168

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

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Israel & Palestine

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“Palestine”

10. Palestine
Palestine net.
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http://www.pal
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net.com/
Palestine net. Retrieved
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http://www.palestine-
net.com/geography/gifs/pal
map.gif

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13. Canada
Université Laval. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
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14. Quebec
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17. True nation-states?

18. True nation-state?
CNN. Retrieved January
18, 2006:
http://www.cnn.com/WOR
LD/9708/21/n.korea.japan/
n.korea.japan.map.jpg

19. Yahoo Travel. Retrieved 8/29/06: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-
travelguide-577998-map_of_vietnam-i

20. Is the U.S. a nation state?
Learning With Toys. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/440%20Melis
sa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera%20Interact
ion%20United%20States%20USA%20Map.jpg

21. Is the U.S. a nation state?
• American Indians, Hawaiians
Reading Online. Retrieved
January 18, 2006:
http://www.readingonline.org/electr
onic/hawaii/bulaia.jpg
Unofficial Choctaw Nation Homepage.
Retrieved January 18, 2006:
http://www.uwm.edu/~michael/choctaw/

22. Is the U.S. a nation state?
• American Indians, Hawaiians
• Nation of Islam

23. Is the U.S. a nation state?
• American Indians, Hawaiians
• Nation of Islam
• National characteristics?
• Iconography