Course Objective 

Political Geography course is designed to expose the students to the diverse and exciting field of political geography, which might be defined roughly as the spatial analysis of political phenomena. While based on political and geographical concepts, the course will focus throughout on real-life situations and contemporary issues at the local, regional, national, and global levels. The course covers a range of emerging topics from international political economy to the political dimensions of environmental changes. Yet, we will be studying how these broad and newly emerging topics bear upon many of the traditional research targets of political geographers: geopolitics, state sovereignty, nation and state, territoriality, migration, political boundaries, and power.

Course Content

The implications of human and physical geography for political affairs on both the global and country scales. Includes consideration of the geographical divisions of the Western dominated world economy; geopolitical models of world power and inter-state competition; and the territorial foundations of states and nations. Special attention to environmental factors in contemporary global and regional politics, to geographical aspects of political conflict, and to the implications of "globalization".

Learning Outcomes

Political Geography course is designed to expose the students to the diverse and exciting field of political geography, which might be defined roughly as the spatial analysis of political phenomena. While based on political and geographical concepts, the course will focus throughout on real-life situations and contemporary issues at the local, regional, national, and global levels.

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