4.5 Functions of Political Boundaries

The policy of a state wanting to add territory from another State inhabited by people who have cultural links to their own State is

• the interaction model.
• the gravity model. 
• irredentism.
• ethnocentrism.

The country of Lesotho is located completely with the border of South Africa--what is Lesotho's position referred to as?

• Microstate

• Exclave

• Enclave

• Fragmented

A boundary accompanied by a physical object such as a sign or walls is best characterized as...

• delimited

• demarcated

• militarized

• relic

A _____________________ boundary is one established by a legal document such as a treaty that divides one entity from another (invisible line).

• delimited

• defined

• geometric

• geometric

"UNCLOS" is a set of laws that apply most directly to what?

• Stateless nations

• European countries

• Ownership of the seas / oceans

• Claims over mountain ranges

A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

• Frontier
• Satellite States
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State

____________ boundary disputes focus on the legal language of the boundary agreement

• definitional
• locational
• operational
• allocational

____ boundary disputes involve neighboring states that differ over way borders should function

• definitional
• locational
• operational
• allocational

dispute over rights to resources (e.g. oil, water) crossed by international boundaries

• definitional
• locational
• operational
• allocational

An example of an locational boundary dispute would be...

• A dispute between Canada and U.S over the purpose of the border between Washington and British Columbia.

• A dispute over the language of a treaty establishing the southern border of a country.

• A dispute between China and Russia over resources shared on their border.

• A dispute between two states over whether a mud slide that caused a river (the border) to change direction, changed the borders of each state.