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, in particular with respect to the concept of sustainable development and climate change.

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.

- Different perspective on globalization
- Globalizing economic geographies
- Development, inequality and globalization
- Globalization and governance
- Geo-economic scenarios: order and disorder in a multipolar world
- Sustainable development; principles, approaches and governance
- Climate change and climate governance
- Climate change and social and environmental justice
- Climate change and (national, human) security

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, chapters 1, 7 (pp. 229-234)
- M. Singer, Climate Change and Social Inequality, Routledge, 2019, chapters 1, 2 (pp. 53-63), 3 (pp. 65-75).
- D. Wallace, D. Silander, Climate Change, Policy and Security, Routledge, 2018, chapters 1, 2 (pp. 45-49).
- Pdf Presentations uploaded in the moodle page of the course.

The exam is a written test with 5 open-questions. Students have 120 minutes to answer. Each answer is worth of 6 points max (out of 30).

The exam aims at verifying the acquisition by students of the basic concepts of economic-political geography, with reference to the issues of global change, sustainable development and climate change.

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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