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Topics in Political Geography
This course provides students with an introduction to the critical study of geopolitics, a topic claimed by political geographers, historians, political scientists, (critical) security studies and practitioners. We will begin with an overview text from a political geographer and then proceed to examine the role of intellectuals as theorists and practitioners. Then we will turn to theorizing the current world order and global space before examining some recent work within political geography on the spatialities of the American empire. Thereafter we will shift to reading some contemporary intellectuals of statecraft and their diagnoses of the US and the contemporary geopolitical condition. We conclude by examining ‘third nature’ geopolitical concerns and issues which are already with us, conditioning and shaping our world. At the end of this course you should be able to think spatially, and, hopefully, critically about the spatialities of global politics.