I module:
The course in Geopolitics focuses on the relationships between States and on 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 ongoing conflicts, 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 contemporaries
• FredrichRatzel
• Rudolf Kjellen
• Paul Vidal de la Blache
• Halford J. Mackinder
• Karl Houshofer
• Alfred ThayerMahan
• Nicholas J. Spykman
• Giulio Douhet
• Alexander P. de Seversky
• Saul Bernard Cohen
• Henry Kissinger
• The State: sovereignty - territory - population
• Modern State Theories
• The geographical-political organization
• The exercise of sovereignty and State failure
• Boundaries and Borders
• State and anti-State: Etina, Clan and Tribe
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces
• Migrations: war- inequalities Land Grabbing
• The routes and the European corridors
• Fontex and Eurosur
• Geopolitical powers and power analysis: hard power, soft power, smart power
• Regional geopolitical analysis: Asia and Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; Nord-South Korea)
• the post-Soviet space

•Global war on terrorism: islamic radicalism, Arab springs, Al-Queda, ISIS and the jihadist galaxy;
• Geo-economics: economic-territorial and military sphere
• Financial crisis and financial domination
• The commercial interdependence
• Energy and power
• Energy resources
• Intangible capitalism
II module:
• Playback manual cartographic
• Spatial Data Analysis: playback digital cartographic
Drawing up a written assignment