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

Cyber Space e Cyber Security

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