An ‘imperial ideology’ is:

Let us presume that we have a state that vigorously practices democracy – one person, one vote. All individuals are empowered by a set of rights encoded by a constitution. ‘Freedom’ is largely expressed as a right to choose one’s preferred politician or ideology, enjoy the rule of law as opposed to being subject to arbitrary power, and to be free to own property and compete equitably in the national economy. Can such a state be an imperial state? Meaning can it also command a coercive and exploitative empire abroad?

The difference between the modern state as independent political unit and the independent political units of approximately 1500 AD (in Europe) is:

As I covered (in video and the Powerpoints), ‘globalization’ is having some erosive effects on the Westphalian state system. All of the following are effects that globalization is having. Name the ONE that is NOT.

Which tissues are supplied by the mantle fibers of the Inferior Alveolar nerve?

To whom is this statement attributed? “Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland. Who rules the Heartland commands the World-island. Who rules the World-Island commands the world.”

This individual is thought of as the “Father of Political Geography”. He developed the “Organic Theory of the State” which postulated that the state’s relationship to space was the same as the relationship of an organism to its environment. In effect, the state was a biological organism of sorts with a life cycle.

Nicholas Spykman criticized Mackinder’s notion of a powerful ‘Heartland’ at the center of the Eurasian continent that could threaten the perimeter of the continent (Rimland). Identify two major environmental problems with respect to the ‘Heartland’ that Spykman pointed out to reject Mackinder’s theory.

I talked about why some form of territorial state (however diminished in function) must exist in the foreseeable future, and why you cannot have a capitalist society based ‘entirely’ on allegiance to non-territorial corporations. One reason was that capitalism is based on there being a richer zone of high wages and a poorer zone of low wages to be exploited (like the ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds today). But what was the other reason?

What is ‘Placelessness’?