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.

Head Lecturer(s)

André Filipe Valadas Saramago

Assessment Methods

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