Political and Economic Geography

Outline. The Economic-Political Geography is the reference discipline for the understanding of the global economic- political and regional dynamics and transformations at all spatial scales.
In the interconnected contemporary world the ability to know about geo-economic and geopolitical dynamics, relations between countries and regional areas -on the basis of cultural differences and similarities, access to resources, co-evolution of human communities and the environment; the integrated scenarios of human mobility, localization and flows of goods, information- is a capacity / knowledge that makes the difference for those who want to operate in an international, European and even political-administrative-projectual level, private business and not business sector, with the required knowledge of territorial variability/capacity generating opportunities and limits and a critical approach in favor of human and not human sustainability.
The GEOPOLEC Program presents, therefore, the geoeconomic and geopolitical dynamics of relationship between human communities and reference contexts (both in physical proximity and at distance, both in bounded areas and in the networks), illustrating, firstly, the main concepts and models of interpretation of the geo-economic and geopolitical space; therefore aspects of birth, diffusion, circulation of the main geoconomic activities also in critical key of uneven development, unsustainability of production and consumption models; finally, it presents the geopolitical dynamics in progress for regional areas and overall at the global scale.
Professor Paradiso is available to discuss with students the experimentation of models and alternative practices in terms of common goods, digital geographies of production and consumption.

The program is organized in 2 theoretical-methodological Units: A (Economic Geography), B (Geopolitics) and a third conceptual-applied learning (C).

Unit A : Economic Geography
Methods of analysis and understanding of space and geo-economic environment, changes in production, economic globalization, poverty and development. Localization issues of economic activities, issues and dynamics of generation and dissemination of development, business behaviors and territorial organization in agriculture, energy activities, manufacturing, transport and communications, financial and other activities of the tertiary, quaternary (technology and innovation territorial). Issues and geographical distribution of trade and financial flows. Territorial dimension of development processes in terms of sustainable development approach to the economy and local development.

Unit B: Political Geography, geopolitics
The political dimension of geography through the foundations of the discipline such as space, territoriality, formation and transformation of modern territorial states, borders, borders, minorities, networks, traditional and new configurations of geopolitical subjects and organizations; the implications of the Network; relationship actors of power, resources, territory, ethnicity, economy, hegemony, antagonism or collaboration. Then basic knowledge and geopolitical interpretative keys will be provided about World geopolitics: Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, Africa at global and regional scales.
UNIT C: 'Laboratory, workshops'
Seminars and lectures also with invited speakers, on field laboratory on the topics of urban regeneration, creative and smart activities, innovation, transports and logistics, geopolitics. On field laboratory will occur in Naples April/May for a selection of students on geoeconomic-social issues related to harbor touristic, digital activity and historical center gentrification.