Geopolitics

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.

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.