Slideshow on “State & nation” for Political Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Professor of Geography; School of Biology, Ecology, & Environmental Science; The University of Southern Mississippi

1. Political Geography:
Theory of State & Nation
© Mark M. Miller
Political Geography
Dept. of Geography & Geology
The University of Southern Mississippi
Watt, Sam. End of the United Kingdom. Souciant. Sep 9, 2014: http://souciant.com/2014/09/end-of-the-united-kingdom/

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

3. • Nation = people
• State = government unit
• Nation-state: when nation = state

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

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. [c.f., Irish
Republican
Army]
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8. Retrieved August 28, 2019: http://www.snp.org/

9. Guardian. European cartoons on the Brexit. March 20, 2016:
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11. Former Soviet Union
Prentice Hall. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
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ndependent%20states%20of%20the%20former%20Soviet%20Union.gif

12. Former Soviet Union
Prentice Hall. Retrieved January 18, 2006:
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ndependent%20states%20of%20the%20former%20Soviet%20Union.gif

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

14. 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

15. Retrieved February 24, 2010
The Koreas

16. el. Retrieved
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ttravel.com/category/
South Korea: capital city of Seoul

17. Unknown. Retrieved February 24, 2010: http://www.ki4u.com/unthinkable.htm
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in-pyongyang/
North Korea

18. Chive. Daily Afternoon Randomness. September 30, 2014.

20. Yahoo Travel. Retrieved 8/29/06: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-
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21. Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection. Retrieved
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dle_east_and_asia/china_ling_90.jp
g
China

22. Grant, Richard. 2015. Africa:
Geographies of Change.
Oxford: Oxford University.

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

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