The course in Geopolitics focuses on the relationships between States and the government strategies used in the global competition for power. Starting from the geopolitical aspects of the geographical areas studied and from the main theoretical concepts of the subject, we will analyze the current international situation: we will study the conflicts happening in the world today, the constraints of USA supremacy; the role of the emerging states which are to form new strategic regions of power, the global war on terrorism.
PROGRAMME:

• The geopolitical thinking: from classics to contemporary
• Fredrich Ratzel
• Rudolf Kjellen
• Paul Vidal de la Blache
• Halford J. Mackinder
• Karl Houshofer
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Nicholas J. Spykman
• Giulio Douhet
• Alexander P. de Seversky
• Saul Bernard Cohen
• Henry Kissinger

• The State: sovereignty - territory - population
• Modern Theories on the state
• The geographical-political organization
• The exercise of sovereignty and state failure

• Boundaries and Borders:
• ongoing conflicts tied to borders

• Migration: war- inequalities Land Grabbing
• The routes and the European corridors
• Fontex and Eurosur

• State and anti-State: Etina, eTribù Clan:
• centrifugal and centripetal forces
• The religious component
• Ongoing Conflict and analysis on regional powers:
or Asia and Middle East:
or Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; delNord-South Korea
• geopolitical powers and power analysis: hard power, soft power, smart power

• Super power in comparison USA - CHINA - EU and their partnership

• Global war on terrorism: Al-Queda e ISIS

• The geo-economics: economic and military sphere -territorial
• Financial crisis and financial domination
• The commercial interdependence
• Energy resources
• The primary resources

• Mapping the present (laboratory):
• Playback manual cartographic
• Spatial Data Analysis