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GEOSTRATEGY & INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS Niki Papadopoulou
Session 1:Introduction
Agenda
INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • Course overview • Geopolitical issues of our times
Agenda
INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Course overview Geopolitical issues and challenges of our times
Agenda
- No talking or side conversations. - No open computers - Turn off your cell phones - Listen, learn & participate
Rules
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Learning objectives: • Become familiar with current geopolitical thinking
and develop a lexicon of key terminology of geopolitics and international affairs.
• Gain a basic understanding of the key geopolitical issues of our time and the challenges to international cooperation among key players (states, corporations, legal and illegal international organizations).
• Develop tools to analyze current events, trace their origins and understand their implications on current affairs.
Course Objectives
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(1) Each class will begin with a brief press review of the MOST current topics in geopolitics.
(2) The professor will introduce a distinct geopolitical topic during the first half of the class,
(3) followed by an in-class debate.
Course Structure
Agenda Course Overview
Agenda Course Overview Cont’d
Agenda Grades
Agenda Grades
Agenda Grades: Debate
Each student will participate in a 15 minute debate about one of the class topics. In groups you will be expected to do your own research and prepare a PPT presentation. Your presentation must include two different medias (images, music, video). You will be evaluated on your ability to convince your audience (who will vote on your abilities) as well as your preparation and analytical abilities. Each group would preapre the PRO (for) and CON (against)arguments. The topics will be chosen by a draw.
Agenda Grades: Debate
Research Techniques “Your own research”: your objective is to learn not to use something someone else said. Do: - Search in legitimate sources (International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais, CNN, MSNBC, France 24, NPR, RFI, etc) - Cite your sources
Don’t: - Copy and paste from your sources - Use Wikipedia as a source, it’s only a reference. The real information and analysis should come from legitimate sources.
Agenda Grades: Position Paper
The simulation will be on the tensions with Iran and the possible escalation of the conflict. There will be 7 groups that will take on the following roles: 1) IRAN 2) ISRAEL 3) UNITED STATES 4) UNITED NATIONS 5) TURKEY 6) FRANCE 7) CHINA In the groups established on the first day of class, you will prepare a position paper and be ready to act and react according to your positions. Due Date: Nov. 21 for Univers B,C, D, E Nov. 26 for Univers A Nov. 28 for Univers F
Agenda Grades: Position Paper
One page position paper outlining your point of view for the simulation. The simulation will put us in a “real life” geopolitical situation in which you will have to react to the news and challenges of the day according to your assigned position. In order to establish your position you will have to do your own research based on current pres coverage of the subject matter. Some articles will be provided by the professor on the intranet site.
Agenda Dates of Debates by Group
Debate A B C D E F
Practice Debate-US
Oct. 31 Oct. 31 Nov. 12 Oct. 30 Oct. 31 Oct. 31
Terrorism Nov. 13 Nov. 13 Nov. 19 Nov. 12 Nov. 12 Nov. 12
Drug threat Nov. 19 Nov. 20 Nov. 20 Nov. 19 Nov. 19 Nov. 28
Simulation Nov. 26 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 28
Water Nov. 28 Nov. 27 Nov. 26 Nov. 26 Nov. 26 Dec. 3
Europe vs. Asia
Dec. 3 Dec. 3 Dec. 3 Nov. 28 Nov. 27 Dec. 10
Geopolitics Dec. 4 Dec. 10 Dec. 10 Dec. 10 Dec. 4 Dec. 11
INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Course overview
Geopolitical issues and challenges of our times
GEOSTRATEGY & INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS Niki Papadopoulou
Session 1:Introduction
Key Geopolitical Issues of our Time
A new map of Europe?
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
La Guerra del Fútbol, Qualifying round for the World Cup, 1970
A war for worthy causes?
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
A war for worthy causes?
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The Threat of Violence is Not Always Necessary
Ping Pong Diplomacy, April 6-17, 1971
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The legacy of the Cold War
The Cuban Revolution, 1959
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The legacy of the Cold War
Vietnam War 1955-1975
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The legacy of the Cold War
Augusto Pinochet, Ruler of Chile, 1973-89
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The legacy of the Cold War
Russian invasion of Afghanistan 1979-1986
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
The legacy of the Cold War
The Korean War and the 38th Parallel
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Terrorism is not a (Middle) Eastern Practice
Aldo Moro, Italian statesman
Kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades in 1978.
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
Current Geopolitical Challenges
Xi Jinping
Agenda The Davos Forum’s List of
Risks for 2012
Agenda The Davos Forum’s List of
Risks for 2012
Agenda The Davos Forum’s List of
Risks for 2012
Agenda The Davos Forum’s List of
Risks for 2012
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
GEOPOLITICS has come to mean the struggle among nations for limited resources and how they cooperate or compete to maximize their power and resources.
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
GEO POLITICS
Space
Power
- An approach to politics originating in late nineteenth century Germany that stressed the constraints imposed on foreign policy for location and environment, geopolitics contributed to the emphasis on continuity in modern political realism.
Source: Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics, 2009.
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
GEOPOLITICS has come to mean the struggle among nations for limited resources and how they cooperate or compete to maximize their power and resources.
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
GÉOPOLITIQUE: La démarche géopolitique vise essentiellement à élucider les interactions entre les configurations spatiales et ce qui relève du politique. (1) Analyser la complexité de l’état du monde (suite à la guerre de Vietnam, les chocs pétroliers de 1973 et 1979, les guerres israélo-arabes, les guerres afghanes, l’islamisme radical…).
Source: Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20eme siècle, sous la direction de Serge Cordellier, Edition la Découverte, 2007).
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
2) Pensées de la contention et le refoulement: une autre forme de récurrence de représentation géopolitiques à travers le siècle a trait à une lecture d’un monde structuré en puissances soit « maritimes » soit « continentales » à la suite de Halford Mackinder, Nicholas Spykman, George Kennan et de Zbignew Bzrezinski. Dans ce schéma on trouve aussi la contention/endiguement (containment) qui justifie la guerre de Vietnam. 3) Le simplisme des thèses civilisationnistes (l’Occident, le monde musulman, hindouiste, confucéen)-vision de Samuel Huntington. Source: Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20eme siècle, sous la direction de Serge Cordellier, Edition la Découverte, 2007).
Agenda So what is geopolitics?
4) Discours à la méthode et aide à la décision: La tache civique des spécialistes de l’analyse géopolitique est alors d’en éclairer les termes aux yeux des opinions et de diffuser les données objectives des débats, préalables aux décision collectives (eg. L’Union Européenne, son élargissement, la gestion de la crise, sa place dans le monde).
Source: Lz dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20eme siècle, sous la direction de Serge Cordellier, Edition la Découverte, 2007).
Wars: For Worthy Causes?
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+ Remember the press review!!