LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides the methodologies and tools of geopolitics useful for analysing and understanding the discipline at the time of globalisation. In particular, starting from a historical approach to classical theories, the keys to understanding transversal phenomena (geography, demography, religion ...) that characterise the geopolitical actions of the major institutional players (USA, China, Europe, ...) and others are provided.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the main issues related to Geopolitics and will have acquired a vocabulary that will allow him to orient himself in the literature, being able to easily understand and examine scientific texts relating to the subject. It will therefore be able to interpret current geopolitics in a contingency in which changes in the behavior and strategies of the main world players follow one another with unexpected frequency. It will also be able to explain, argue and sometimes interpret some of the main geopolitical issues both in oral and written form.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, seminar activities, case analysis carried out also through group work involving the preparation of a written paper and a Power Point presentation.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course, after dealing with the birth of the discipline and its evolution, goes on to examine

- the main theories and the post-cold war period

- the geopolitical implications of natural and energy resources, of demography and religions, of the economy.

- the geopolitical situation of Italy and of the other main major geographical areas of the world

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS

On the web classroom there are the materials illustrated in class which, integrated by the notes taken directly by the student and by the study of some chapters, indicated by the teacher, of the volume in the bibliography, allow the preparation of the exam.

FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS

Graziano M., Geopolitica. Orientarsi nel grande disordine internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2019. The entire volume needs to be prepared.