Slideshow on “State & nation” for Political Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Dept. of Geography & Geology, The University of Southern Mississippi

1. State & nation building
Majendie, Matt. 2015. Usain Bolt: The secret behind the world's fastest man. CNN. August 25: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/21/sport/world-
championships-jamaican-sprinting/

2. State & nation, etc.
• Theory
• Theory of nation and state
• Nation
• State
• Nation-State
• Insurgent state
• Ahead:
– Nation building
– State building
– Iconography
– Failed state

3. Zimbabwe:
McGroarty, Patrick; & Farai Mutsaka. How to
Turn 100 Trillion Dollars Into Five and Feel
Good About It. Wall Street Journal. May 11,
2011.
Failed states

5. Fausta’s blog. Venezuela: Well on the road
from “malgoverned space” to failed state.
September 3, 2015:
https://faustasblog.com/2015/09/venezuela-
well-on-the-road-from-malgoverned-space-to-
failed-state/
Fellowship of Minds. Retrieved August 30,
2017:
https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2
016/05/venezuela-hospital.jpg

6. Iraq state building: requirements?

7. Islam from Inside. Retrieved
1/23/06:
http://www.islamfrominside.com/i
mages/iraq_constitution.jpg

8. powerlineblog.com. Accessed January 24, 2005:
powerlineblog.com/archives/09cnd-afgh-xl.jpg

9. Iraq nation building: requirements?

10. Reuters. Retrieved 1/23/06:
http://www.flaggenkunde.de/neues/im
ages/iraq2004_reuters.gif

11. CIA World Factbook. Retrieved September 16, 2010:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-
factbook/flags/flagtemplate_iz.html

12. Kurdish Democratic Association in
Sweden-lund. Retrieved January 17,
2006:
hem.passagen.se/kdfsltv/hist.html
Retrieved January 17, 2006: homepages.fh-
giessen.de/~hg11245/
Kurdistan

13. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 1/23/06:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/cocaine/map.gif

14. http://www.visitjamaica.com/

15. Majendie, Matt. 2015. Usain Bolt: The secret behind the world's fastest man. CNN. August 25: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/21/sport/world-
championships-jamaican-sprinting/