The Czech intellectual elite could look back at a thousand years of state history, first as a principality and then as a kingdom, while Slovakia had never existed as a separate geopolitical unit.
The exposure metric in all three was an average exposure measurement by county, a much larger geopolitical unit than the villages in the Taiwan study.
Country occurrence was extracted from the IUCN data set to determine country endemism (defined as species confined to a geopolitical country unit; Ceballos & Ehrlich, 2002).
Such procedures assume that the situation in the cookie-cutter geopolitical unit known as Somalia is more worthy of escaping than the situation immediately across the border which may or may not be the case, since borders seldom neatly contain humanitarian crises.
The authors point out that the vast majority of Indicators are based on data aggregated by geopolitical unit.
18 In September 2004, 32 "circumscriptions" (the most decentralised geopolitical unit, comprising about 500 houses and 2000 inhabitants) were selected in central urban Guantanamo.
Location data for the study population are typically a set of geopolitical units (census enumeration unit boundaries) or the actual residences of the study population.
Adaptive strategies included a greater use of local knowledge; the adoption of tribal authority boundaries as the smallest geopolitical units for sampling; a creative developmental approach to capacity building; and planned, on-going engagement with multiple community representatives.
The study is a cluster randomised trial involving 24 Village Development Committees [standard rural geopolitical units] of Makwanpur District, south-central Nepal.
The principal competitors are "large geopolitical units": the US, China and Europe - though the latter is still not a full-fledged strategic player.
