| Module: MODULE II
(objectives)
The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of contemporary geopolitics. Through a multi-sectoral and multi-scalar analysis, the course intends to offer useful tools to analyse the theory and practice of action of international geopolitical actors, with a special focus on the dynamics of global crises in the context of a new post-pandemic digital world. A special section is devoted to the geopolitics of environmental risks and migration routes with a comparison between the Euro-Mediterranean border and the US-Mexico border.
The completion of this unit will enable you to demonstrate that you: Understand and engage with theoretical approaches and concepts relevant to security and geopolitics; able to analyse the key dynamics of global crises in the context of a new post-pandemic digital world; critically understand causes and consequences of the geopolitics of environmental risks; critically understand causes and consequences of the geopolitics of international migration.
Students acquire a theoretical, conceptual understanding of conflicts and geopolitical actors and security concerns in the new post-pandemic digital world; students acquire contextual and empirical knowledge of the geopolitics of environmental risks; students acquire contextual and empirical knowledge of of the geopolitics of international migration; students acquire the critical capacity to analyse, assess and engage in competing security and geopolitical debates; students develop and apply their transferable skills, which include: self-motivation, teamwork, communication, debating, conceptual thinking, critical evaluation and presentation skills; students develop the capacity to construct and orally present their argument.
Your skills will be developed through a range of practices such as: investigative reading of texts and preparation for the class; preparation of a handout; collective discussions; students attending the lectures will always have the chance to discuss, reflect and engage in in-depth debates and ask questions and receive immediate formative feedback.
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