Geopolitics

A.Y. 2024/2025
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 can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Lesson period
Third trimester
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, Tutto è potenza, Milano, 2023
Klaus Dodds, Il primo libro di geopolitica, Torino, 2023

A prova di errore (FAIL SAFE), Regia di S. Lumet, (1964)
Tempo di leggere, 1959, Ai confini della realtà
Saving the planet, George Carlin, 2007
ARCA RUSSA, regia di Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002
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
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Bellocchio Luca Walter