Political Geographies 3

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GEOG 1304Human Geography

• Political Geographies 3

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Overview

• Geopolitics
• Analytical approach
• Geography of international relations
• Issues driving international relations
• Normative approach
• Ideals of international relations
• Policies based on these relations

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Normative Geopolitics 1

• Traditional geopolitics
• Ideal
• organic ethnic nation state formation
• social darwinism
• Survival of the fittest
• International relations as a darwinian struggle
  over resources
• heartland theory
• Consequences
• Lebensraum
• Cultural and political imperialism
• hierarchy of civilizations
• Doctrines of preemption

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Normative Geopolitics 2

• Modern Liberal Geopolitics
• Ideal
• diverse multiethnic nations and state formation
• Nations of political will
• Economic and political systems
• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Consequences
• formation of selective international alliances
• formation and competition of ideological world
  systems
• Clash of ideologies
• clash of civilizations universality of capitalism