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 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)

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.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Clara Gabriel de Oliveira

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.