one State’s power to control space and shape the foreign policy of individual states and international relations
Organic state theory (Ratzel)
an organism conforming to natural laws for survival
Heartland theory (Mackinder)
strategic advantages of land over sea powers
Rimland theory (Spykman)
strategic value of continental margins of Eurasia
Domino theory (the Cold War)
adjacent countries line up as dominos, chain reaction.
International political systems
The United Nations
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
The UN convention on the Law of the Sea
A territorial sea of up to 12 nautical miles
A contiguous zone to 24 nautical miles
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) up to 200 nautical miles
The high seas beyond the EZZ
Local and regional politics
Electoral geography
the analysis of how boundaries are drawn around voting districts and the relationships between the spatial patterns yielded by election results and the socioeconomic characteristics of voters.
Gerrymandering
the practice of drawing the boundaries of voting districts to unfairly favor one political party over another, to fragment voting blocs, or to achieve other non-democratic objectives. (strategies include stacked gerrymandering, excess vote, and waste vote)