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IV. Challenges to Inherited Political-Territorial Arrangements
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Changing Nature of Sovereignty
The concept of sovereignty itself is being questioned, as developments at a variety of different scales are undermining the state-territorial system. They range from the expanding scope of multinational corporate activity to the inability of some states to exert much control over the domestic economy in the face of international debt payments and the need to sustain the production of key cash crops for external consumption.
Fragmentation, Unification, Alliance
Challenges to the inherited political-territorial order do not simply come in spatially ambiguous economic forms, however. There are concrete examples of fragmentation, unification, and alliance that are altering the political geographic order.
Spatial Relationships Between Political Patterns and Patterns of Ethnicity, Economy, and Environment
The division of the world into individual states impedes efforts to confront environment problems such as the depletion of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, and global warming.
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