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Over the past 100 years the human population has grown how much? |
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What is the idea of a world in which the balance of mutual opposition and nuclear terror between superpowers would no longer determine the destinies of states? |
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What field combines geography with some aspects of political science? |
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_________ _______ tends to focus on governmental institutions, systems, and interactions, ___________ brings locational, environmental, and territorial perspectives to the fore? |
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Political Science; Geopolitics |
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What was designed, in part, to enhance its members' competitiveness in the world at large? |
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T/F: Supranationalism can result in strong centrifugal and centripetal forces within a state? |
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What is the process by which forces divide and destabilize a state which turn it into a reverse of evolution? |
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How many territorial components are within the United Kingdom? |
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What is at the heart of most devolutionary movements? |
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Ethnonational or economic difference |
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What is it called when people share a well-developed sense of belonging to the same cultural group? |
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People sharing a strong sense of what ethnicity feel that they are part of a group with similar what? |
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Origin and cultural histor |
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What can be a fundamental force promoting devolution? |
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T/F: All states with ethnonationalist movements are at risk of breaking apart? |
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What is at the root of many states' devolutionary problems? |
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A much stronger sense of ethnocultural fragmentation |
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How many states are in the world? |
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T/F: Devolutionary forces can be found in young and old states? |
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How many Autonomous Communities and further decentralizing powers were created in Spain? |
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Belgium was a founding member of what two supranational powers? |
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Where is the European Union's headquarters? |
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What two countries succumbed to devolutionary pressures in Parts of Eastern Europe? |
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Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia |
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What two groups were divided in Czechoslovakia? |
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T/F: Slovakia is homogeneous? |
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What percent of the population of Slovakia is Hungarian? |
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Yugoslavia was home to how many major and how many minor ethnic and cultural groups? |
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How many republics was Yugoslavia divided into? |
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Out of the six republics of former Yugoslavia which one was not dominated by a major group? |
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What six states came from the former Yugoslavia? |
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Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro |
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What percent of the Bosnians are Muslim? |
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What percent of the Bosnians are members of the Serbian Orthodox Church? |
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What percent of the Bosnians are Croatian Catholics? |
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In 1994 the Serbs of Bosnia controlled what percent of Bosnia? |
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How big is the barrier that runs from Bosnia's NW corner to its SW corner. |
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621 mile long and 4 mile wide |
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After the U.S. drew a new map of Bosnia, what percent of the country was Serb-dominated? |
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T/F: Ethnonational differences are weakening the fabric of many states in today's global political framework? |
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Where is the chief problem of France located? |
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What is one common feature that devolutionary forces have in common? |
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They most often occur on the margins of states |
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