GEOPOLITICS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Economic and Political Geography

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

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GEOPOLITICS

CULTURAL TOURISM STUDIES

AF code:

A000200

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

I module: Oral or written
II module: Written assignment

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The aim of the course is to provide a platform of theoretical tools to develop the students’ analytical and interpretative skills of the main past and present geopolitical events.

Contents

I module:
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
• State and anti-State: Etina, eTribù Clan
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces
• Migration: war- inequalities Land Grabbing
• The routes and the European corridors
• Fontex and Eurosur
• Geopolitical powers and power analysis: hard power, soft power, smart power
• analysis on regional powers:Asia and Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; Nord-South Korea)
• Super power in comparison

•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

II module:
• Mapping the present (laboratory):
• Playback manual cartographic
• Spatial Data Analysis: blayback digital cartographic
Drawing up written assignment

Recommended Bibliography

I and II module:
Texts:
- CERRETI C., MARCONI M., SELLARI P., “Manuale di Geografia Politica ed Economica e Geopolitica”, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2018.
- GLASSNER M. I., "Manuale di Geografia Politica, VOL. I: Geografia e politica dello Stato", Franco Angeli, Milano, 1997;
- ANGHELONE F., UNGARI A. (a cura di) “Atlante geopolitico dl Mediterraneo”, Bordeaux Ed., Roma, 2017

Teaching materials provided by the teacher.

Non-attending students

CERRETI C., MARCONI M., SELLARI P., “Manuale di Geografia Politica ed Economica e Geopolitica”, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2018. , parte I e parte II
- ANGHELONE F., UNGARI A. (a cura di) “Atlante geopolitico dl Mediterraneo”, Bordeaux Ed., Roma, 2017, parte I, parte II da pag. 151 a pag. 366

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

I module: Lectures face to face
II module: laboratory

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