Geopolitics

A.Y. 2021/2022
6
Max ECTS
40
Overall hours
SSD
SPS/04
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the conceptual and theoretical tools needed to understand key issues in international politics and the competition among polities for power.
Expected learning outcomes
After completing the course, students should have developed the following skills.
Knowing and understanding the main dynamics of international coexistence, the role of the national state and the evolution of the international system in the post-Cold War period in the light of the fragmentation / integration dialectics.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding of the competition between the great powers for the resources of power, material and ideational, of the role played by the war in the re-distribution of these resources and of the (predictable and unpredictable) consequences that the possession of these resources produces on the actor who has spent on their accumulation.
Knowledge and understanding of the process of elaboration and implementation of the national interest of the dominant powers, that is of the actors that compete to climb the hierarchy of international power, and of the national interest of the medium and small powers, that is the actors forced to support / contain the foreign policy of the dominant powers.
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Lesson period
Second trimester
Microsoft Teams will be used for online teaching
Course syllabus
The old geopolitics
The new geopolitics
What's a geopolitical event?
Towards a realist geopolitics
Great power politics after the end of the Cold War
Geopolitics of the XXI century
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Luca Bellocchio, I sicari della pace, Meltemi, 2019
Enzo Traverso, La violenza nazista. Una genealogia, Mulino, 2010
Walter Russell Mead, "The return of geopolitics", Foreign Affairs, May 2014
John H. Mearsheimer, "The inevitable rivalry", Foreign Affairs, November 2021
James A. Nuechterlein, " Who Are We? by Samuel P. Huntington", Commentary, May 1, 2004

A PROVA DI ERRORE (FAIL SAFE), Regia di Sidney Lumet, con Henry Fonda; Dan O'Herlihy; Walter Matthau (1964)
Tempo di leggere, 1959, Ai confini della realtà
George Carlin, Saving the planet
Le vite degli altri, Regia di Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral examination aims to test the capacity of the student to understand the importance of the competition for the resources of power
SPS/04 - POLITICAL SCIENCE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours