Geopolitics of Peace and Conflicts

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Sessions work as debate settings structured with lecture-style moments and more interactive moments, based on the discussion of the recommend bibliography. Sessions are centred on students’ participation under the profes-sor’s guidance, including sum-up and systematization moments of all the information and debates analysed.

Learning Outcomes

Overall objective
Ability to analyse different peace and conflict contexts from a geopolitical point of view
Specific objectives
- to identify and understand different theoretical approaches to geopolitics
- to interpret current conflicts based on different geopolitical frameworks of analysis
- to contextualise peace and conflict dynamics in time and space
- to understand the origins and consequences of different geopolitical narratives
Generic competencies
Critical and discourse analysis capacities; oral and written skills of analysis; research skills; ability to argue a point of view in a scientific manner.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction to the study of geopolitics: concepts and current research topics.
Geopolitical images of the world: origins.
Relation between geopolitical frameworks and analysis of peace and conflict settings.
Relation between geopolitical frameworks and politics of intervention.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Recommended readings discussion: 30.0%
Research work proposal : 30.0%
Research work: 40.0%

Bibliography

Agnew, J. Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics. London: Routledge, 2003.

Gregory, Derek & Allan Pred (eds) (2007), Violent geographies: fear, terror, and political violence, Routledge.

Ó Tuathail, G. 1996. Critical Geopolitics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.