GEOPOLITICS AND GEOECONOMICS

The course is part of the "Global markets" track. It aims to provide students with the main conceptual and methodological tools of economic and political geography. The fundamental objective of the course is to provide knowledge related to the main geo-economic and geopolitical dynamics, useful for understanding the importance of the geographic perspective in the evolution of the global economic system, also with respect to the concept of sustainable development.

1. Knowledge and understanding
To acquire the basic concepts of economic and political geography and the related reference terminology
To understand the main spatial and territorial dimensions of the action of enterprises, in particular multinationals, of states and of international organizations.
To acquire the main concepts and tools of geopolitical analysis.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
To acquire the capability to use the basic concepts of economic and political geography and its language to interpret the evolution of the global economic system and its dynamics.
To understand how to use the concepts and tools of geopolitics to interpret the evolution of the system of international economic relations in a synchronic perspective.

3) Ability to judge
To develop the capability to formulate and argue interpretative hypotheses regarding the evolution of possible geo-economic and geopolitical scenarios.
To develop the ability to select the most reliable sources, to constructively criticize reports and papers relevant to the study path.

4) Communication skills
The student must be able to synthesize the acquired knowledge in an efficient and coherent way.

Basic concepts of economics and of international political economics.

- Globalization and place, globalization and space, globalization and time
- Globalizing economic geographies
- Neoliberalism, instability and globalization
- Development, inequality and globalization
- Environment, sustainability and globalization
- Sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda
- Reorienting the governance framework of globalization
- Geo-economic scenarios and international relations: order and disorder in a multipolar world

Students can prepare the exam on the study material/readings listed below:
- W.E. Murray and J. Overton, Geographies of Globalization, Second edition, London and New York, Routledge, 2015, capitoli 1,2,4,5,10.
- J. Blewitt, Understanding sustainable development, Routledge 2018, capitoli 1,5.
- The class slides that will be made available before the end of the course in the moodle platform.
- Other readings will be communicated by the instructor before the beginning of the course.

Due to the current covid-19 crisis, it is not possible to provide now exact information on the form of the exam. Further information will follow when possible.

The course is organized with frontal-lectures. In each lesson the final part is destined for discussion with the students, according to modalities consistent with the number of the class.

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