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.

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
Globalizing political geographies
Globalizing cultural geographies
Neoliberalism, instability and globalization
Development, inequality and globalization
Environment, sustainability and globalization
Reorienting the governance framework of globalization

W.E. Murray and J. Overton, Geographies of Globalization, Second edition, London and New York, Routledge, 2015.
Classroon notes; presentations available in the Moodle platform

For all students (attendin and not-attending ones) the exam consists of a written test, with open questions on the topics of the course. The test lasts 50 minutes and it is aimed at verifying the acquisition by students of the basic concepts of economic-political geography and geopolitics, as well as their ability to contextualise these concepts with respect to the evolution of the international economic system.
5 questions require a synthetic answer, aimed at verifying the effectiveness of the student's study. Each answer is worth a maximum of 4 points (out of 30).
A question instead requires the elaboration of a more articulate text, aimed at assessing the student's ability to link together and critically contextualize the main contents acquired in the course. The answer to this question is worth 10 points.

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.

English

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development