What Holds a Country Together or Tears it Apart? Crash Course Geography #36

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Today we’re going to talk about the forces that affect a country’s stability. We’ll take a closer look at Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cuba, and Brazil and examine how the cohesiveness of these Latin American countries varies dramatically even though they are in a region with similar characteristics. As you’ll see, a country is like a figure skater, and maintaining peace and stability is much like a pair performing a “death spiral” balancing the forces attempting to pull a country apart and keep it together.
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General
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Gregory, Derek, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3288-6
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For a free and open source option for World Regional Geography:
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Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam: 2020 edition. The Princeton Review.
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America by Philip Kelly
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Brazil
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@radagastwiz 2 года назад

Would love to see a full Crash Course: Political Science someday. This is almost a pilot episode for what that could look like.

@Rodrigo_Vega 2 года назад

Oh, eh... you kept it pretty clean there on the "containment theory" part where you say it's basically just "negotiating alliances" when It's often directly funding and supporting state-terr0rism.

@MagetaTheLionHeart 2 года назад

Fascinating lesson, but I must shout out that awesome shirt. It's like the fashion love child of David Bowie and Miss Frizzle, and now I'm thinking of the Magic School Bus driven by Ziggy Stardust.

@davidrose5632 2 года назад

This was a very, very good presentation. I even appreciated the acknowledgement of communism as a derivative of socialism that never achieved the end state of no classes and no state. My only critique is glossing over capitalism as a free market. In an ideal state, maybe. However, the US, for example is not a true free market. The state and corporations are intertwined. In a true free market, there would not be government bailouts. If a business made reckless decisions and became over extended, then the end result is collapse or acquisition by another business. The easiest way to compare and contrast socialism to capitalism is that in the former, the state controls some business and means of production whereas the later business controls some of the state and means of production.

@batoolwzaidi6676 2 года назад

Alize needs to drop a fashion line, I love her outfits every episode

@ehrenloudermilk1053 2 года назад

Ok, this new series is rad

@anassbakry241 2 года назад

Nice video

@hanafromtunisia 2 года назад

So nicely explained ! Thank you ❤️

@asar2252 2 года назад

As soon as I got the notification, I rushed here hoping it would help me in my exam the day after tomorrow. That's the level of trust I have on Crash Course.

@dayangstdudytour_niyelin1970 2 года назад

what grade are you?

@SkeledroMan 2 года назад

No mention of US sanctions as one of the factors destabilizing Venezuela when they are probably the most significant factor?

@korautoti60 2 года назад

Argentina is considered stable? Wow. That speaks very badly about the rest of south america

@Edubububu 2 года назад

I know the idea of the video isn't to be super deep. But wow, you guys were extra superficial in the political analysis of SA. Through my entire life my country has suffered US interference. "Containment theory" is a very neutral take on this subject, given how outspoken the videos have been in the past.

@lancelobato 2 года назад

I am brazilian and I approve this video 100%.

@justincredible666 2 года назад

Each to their ability , each to their needs

@tji1074 2 года назад

I see

@fabiodasia4496 2 года назад

Let me guess. Politics?

@asar2252 2 года назад

Geography.

@babyzorilla 2 года назад

Wrong. It’s Banana Bread

@VashdaCrash 2 года назад

Geopolitics, to be precise.

@luisandrade2254 2 года назад

It's a little more complicated than that lol

@ancientswordrage 2 года назад

Love, love will tear us apart.

@RafLovesMary 2 года назад

Norway??? lol, America you funny

@wackywankavator 2 года назад

Can we get a video on red meat messaging and it's use and effects on the populace? And how to read/listen critically and discern opinion from fact? I think it's time. A video on critical listening.

@choedzin 2 года назад

It seems to me that Venezuela is not being "pulled apart from the inside", but rather due to outside meddling by the U.S.

@josephde-haan1074 2 года назад

Love.... .....again.

@cipi9218 2 года назад

This crashcourse be bussin bussin no cap

@j311ycaa5 2 года назад

What does bussin mean

@poundmytomtom 2 года назад

There doesn't need to be a state

@harrison6082 2 года назад

I think economic growth is way more important to stability in the free world than most people realize. Democracies are based on the idea of everyone sitting around a table and giving everyone more and more each year. This happens when the overall pie is growing rapidly. When the pie is not growing, the only way to get ahead is to take it from someone else. And that's when democracies break down. That's why I think democracies are seriously at risk this decade. (Not including China and the group of unfree states they are siding with)

@andersonandrighi4539 2 года назад

I think no country explain better what a failed State is than Somalia. Loved the Latin America examples though.

@cholten99 2 года назад

Interesting to repeatedly use Brazil as an example of authoritarianism rather than including some other examples such as Russia, Poland or Belarus. Also the complex example of China with an extremely stable state run in an authoritarian manner.

@lakrids-pibe 2 года назад

Finland, Finland,Finland, the place that I want to be....

@TheMemesofDestruction 2 года назад

Memes

@tji1074 2 года назад

Seems legit

@CMVBrielman 2 года назад

Norway would take exception to being called socialist.

@skeletonkeysproductionskp 2 года назад

Nice, having the courage to call out socialism/communism for its failures, although its important to note that Norway and other Scandinavian countries are Social Democracies, not Socialist (which is probably why you said "Kinda"). Excellent video as always CrashCourse!

@JAMES-my8bf 2 года назад

Sometimes, I like to Fill UP my Bathtub with Milk, lay in the Fetal Position and pretend that I'm a Cheerio..

@spontaneouscee3018 2 года назад

1st

@happythumbsgaming8606 2 года назад

Have a cookie 🍪

@spontaneouscee3018 2 года назад

👀👀🤣🤣.. 1st

@tji1074 2 года назад

And I'm 1st 2nd and 3rd poggers

@LaughingMan0X 2 года назад

Diversity of language, religion, but especially of race and ethnicity is a profound source of tension and conflict.

@wabuhwabuh8674 2 года назад

"technically centrifucak force doesnt exist in real life physics?" i wonder what's keeping the earth in rotation....

@kevinmbrooks 2 года назад

Angular momentum, I think.

@henrykrider179 2 года назад

Momentum

@andersonandrighi4539 2 года назад

What is keeping us "standing still" is the atmosphere. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ljjLV-5Sa98.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force#:~:text=Centrifugal%20force%20is%20an%20outward%20force%20apparent%20in,be%20made%20relative%20to%20some%20frame%20of%20reference.

@vinvic1578 2 года назад

its a bit of an oversimplification - the centrifugal force is actually a fictitious force created by non-inertial reference frames, its basically a mathematical correction term. They're technically right it doesn't "exist". You may be thinking of the centripetal force , which certainly exists !

@MrMishra814 2 года назад

Inertia

@stankwilliamsjr.8949 2 года назад

That ending part is precious. Too bad the entire history of mankind is filled with stories of conquerors and the conquered. Lose your land? Should’a fought harder…