Geography can provide a bounty of nutrition and abundant resources, or have them in scarcity if at all.  Abundance can enable people to flourish, or create a source of conflict for control.  Scarcity limits people’s ability to expand, or can incentive development of methods to overcome geographic limitations.  If people are able to inhabit a territory, they respond to what their geography provides.  Developing behaviors to compensate for what they lack, and use effectively what they have. 

Geography can bring people together, or can divide people.  Geography that connects different people together can bring in wealth through trade, but also can be a source of invasion.  To limit the threat of invasion, some peoples have become conquerors as a form of defensive strategy.  Geography that separates people can prevent conflicts, or can be a form of intensive conflict as no people may be able to seize control of the territories.   

 

Many sovereign states are represented along with their complex political situation.  But information on each state is limited.  To understand each sovereign state would require more research.  The diversity of sovereign states shows the diversity of geographic features and how the geography effects the political situation. 

The problem is that similar geographic features, are given a different outcome while claims that the geography has caused the generalized behavior.  The explanations take a situation and reason backward to how the situation came to be, but different political situations existed with similar or the same geography.  Geography is a factor of what people have to respond to, but the way people choose to respond to geography shapes the outcomes.