At the end of this course, the students; 1) Develop a different perspective and question current events with a different view. 2) Learn to make long-term analysis. 3) Analyze current events with the newly leant theories. 4) Evaluate critically the fight for resources.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
No recommended optional programme components.
COURSE DEFINITION
This course, aims to deal with the impacts of geography on political relations globally and domestically. To do this, special focus will be on geographical factors, geographical dimensions of political disagreements and impacts of globalization on current global and regional politics. The course, which is based on political and geographical concepts, focuses on current topics in local, regional, national and global scope. The world economy that is under the dominance of the West geographically, geopolitical world, power, the inter-state competition models, states and the foundations of the sovereignty of nations are the content of this course.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
International Relations Theories: Realism, Liberalism
2nd Week
Classical Geopolitical Thinking, Geopolitics Methodology and Strategy
3rd Week
Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War I: The End of Old Enmities
4th Week
Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War II: The United States of America and the Soviet Union - The Making of Super Powers
5th Week
Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War III: The Growth and Decline of Powers: The Soviet Union as an Example
6th Week
Geopolitics and Strategy after the End of the Cold War: The Gliding of Power from West To East?
7th Week
USA - Hegemon? Or Real Power Looser?
8th Week
Russia - From Lost Power to New Wealth?
9th Week
China - Growing Power?
10th Week
Ressource Wars
11th Week
Energy Security vs. Demografic Transition, Environmental Problems and Climate Change
12th Week
Today's Geopolitcs and Strategyi: Common Security - UN and NATO's Role in Conflict Resolution
13th Week
Multilateralism
14th Week
Cooperation - For Human, National, Regional and Global Security
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Basic Books, 1998. Michael T. Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, 2009. Klaus Dodds: Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007. Saul Bernard Cohen: Geopolitics: the Geography of International Relations Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. Daniel Yergin: The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power, Free Press, 1993. Felix Gilbert: Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War, 1986. Paret, Peter (Ed.): Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age. Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J., 1986. Colin Flint: Introduction to Geopolitics, Routledge NY, 2006. William K. Tabb: Resource Wars, Monthly Review, January 2007, Vol. 58, No1.
