Geography 4712                                                                        Name______________________

Fall 2001                                   Final Examination

Answer no more than the required number of questions in each section of the exam.  Keep your eyes on your own examination.  All cases of cheating will be reported.  GOOD LUCK.

Short-answer (10 pts each): answer 3 of the following 5 questions.

Lectures

1.  Explain the concept of pseudo-state and list 3 contemporary examples..

2.   Using a world-systems interpretation, explain why stable democracies are found predominantly in rich countries.

3.  What are the main political-ideological dimensions in Russian?  Give the polar (extreme) positions on each of the cleavages that define each dimension.  What is the main axis of competition?

4.  What are the roles of the state in capitalist society?

5. What are the three main theories of nationalism?  Elaborate one of them.

Readings

Answer 3 of the following 5 questions; each is worth 10 pts

1.  Explain how global  recession (“La Conjuncture”) in the Sahelian belt has led to a food crisis.  Make sure to bring in world-systems concepts to the answer. (Watts). 

2.   What is the “imagined community” notion of nationalism? (Taylor/Flint)

3.  Define briefly these terms from Taylor/Flint: a) developmentalism, b) formal democracy, c) alienation (Marx), d) locale and e) antisystemic movement

4.  What are the four main indications that states are becoming “bit actors” (Ohmae)?

5.   Five political geographies of the future, using Wallerstein’s key institutions of the world-economy (Taylor and Flint, last chapter.)

Definitions

Answer 6 of the following 10 definitions; each is worth 5 pts.

1.  The crisis of legitimation (and example)

2.  Gramsci’s theory of hegemony

3.  5 types of border-territorial conflict (using Hypothetica example) and a contemporary example of each.

4.  The world-systems explanation for the collapse of the Soviet Union

5.  Characteristics of world cities (text or lecture)

6.  According to Barber, why do markets not prefer democracy?

7.  Define civic and ethnic nationalisms and give 2 examples of each

8.  Lome Convention 1957 (Economist article on St. Lucia)

9.  Nationalism as a modern Janus (Taylor and Flint)

10.  contrast thin and thick trust and show the relationship with democracy.

Bonus: (2 or 3 pts depending on your inventiveness)

If matrioshka nationalism refers to the layers of nested national identities, what might “Barbie-doll” nationalism represent?