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)

Vanda Rafaela Amaro Dias

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Other: 60.0%

Bibliography

Agnew, J. Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics. London: Routledge, 2003. [FEUC 327 AGN]

Gregory, Derek & Allan Pred (eds) (2007), Violent geographies: fear, terror, and political violence, Routledge. [CES 323.2 VIO 2007]

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