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Code

GEO 601

Category

Compulsory

ECTS

7,5

Hour per Week

3

E-services

e-class

Instructors

Sidiropoulos G. & Petrakou I.

Learning Outcomes

Geopolitics is the study of the relationships between a state and its geographical space, as well as its interactions with various groups. The objective is to develop an analytical framework that enables the comprehension of geopolitical phenomena. The course cultivates the ability to collect, evaluate, and select relevant sources, while simultaneously enhancing systematic and critical thinking — skills essential for the analysis of complex realities. Specifically, the course aims to define and contextualize geopolitics within its historical framework, facilitating the interpretation of contemporary geopolitical issues.

General Competences

  • Search, analysis, and synthesis of data and information, using appropriate technologies
  • Decision-making, autonomous and group work
  • Work in an international environment
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Respect for difference and multiculturalism
  • Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking

Course Content

The concept of geopolitics guides geography and, more broadly, the social sciences toward the analysis and interpretation of global conflicts. These conflicts occur on two increasingly interrelated scales:

  • the international and the national (such as civil wars).

At the same time, they reveal new approaches to the analysis of political and international phenomena.
The course provides postgraduate students with the opportunity to formulate realistic geopolitical analysis through an interdisciplinary perspective, both theoretical and practical, on issues related to the media, business, diplomacy, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as administration - both institutional and military factors -, etc.
Furthermore, it seeks to present and critically assess the fundamental concepts of geopolitics, the conditions under which it emerged as a scientific discipline, its diverse schools of thought, and the varying logics of spatial organization of the world.
The course provides postgraduate students with specialized knowledge of large geopolitical regions, focusing on the management of decisions related to geopolitical data. Teaching is organized through seminar courses that are divided into both purely contemporary fields and historical sections.

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