Geopolitics of Peace and Conflicts
1
2021-2022
01638584
Political Sciences - International Relations
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
10.0
Compulsory
3rd Cycle Studies
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 professor’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)
NoSyllabus
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.
Head Lecturer(s)
André Filipe Valadas Saramago
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Continuous assessment: combination of written work, in-class participation and oral presentations : 60.0%
Bibliography
Agnew, J. 2003. Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics. London: Routledge.
Gregory, D. & Pred, A. (eds) 2007. Violent geographies: fear, terror, and political violence, Routledge.
Ó Tuathail, G. 1996. Critical Geopolitics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Ikenberry, G. J. 2014 “The Illusion of Geopolitics: The Enduring Power of the Liberal Order”, Foreign Affairs, May/June.
Dalby, S. 2008. “Imperialism, Domination, Culture: The Continued Relevance of Critical Geopolitics” Geopolitics, 13(3): 413‐436.
Slater, D. 2004 Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial: Rethinking North-South Relations. Wiley-Blackwell.
Dodds, Klaus (2008) “Hollywood and the Popular Geopolitics of the War on Terror” Third World Quarterly, 29(8): 1621–1637.
Dodds, K. e Atkinson, D. (eds.) 2000. Geopolitical Traditions: a Century of Geopolitical Thought. London: Routledge.