Descriptif
Course description and objectives:
What exactly is geopolitics? Where, when and how did it appear in the field of political-academic reflection? What have been its evolutions? Why was it long shelved after 1945? Why and how did geopolitical thinking come back to life and vigour in the last quarter of the twentieth century? How useful is it for understanding international conflicts?
This course introduces the study of geopolitics from an international relations perspective. The course should enable the acquisition of the tools necessary for the geopolitical analysis of the international scene, which implies in particular being able to: 1. define geopolitics as a "discipline"; 2. explain how space is a factor in international relations; 3. situate geopolitics in the historical evolution of the international system; 4. explain and criticize geopolitical conceptions before 1945; 5. explain the taboo of geopolitics after 1945 and the reasons for its revival at the end of the twentieth century; 6. carry out a geopolitical analysis of an international situation – real or fictional.
Evaluation format:
Class participation: 20%
Take home exam : 30%
In class exam: 50%
Diplôme(s) concerné(s)
- MScT-Data Science for Business
- MScT-Cybersecurity : Threats and Defenses
- MScT-Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy
- MScT-Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Management
- MScT-Internet of Things : Innovation and Management Program (IoT)
- MScT-Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing
- MScT-Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance
- MScT-Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management
- MScT-Double Degree Data and Finance (DDDF)
- MScT-Data and Economics for Public Policy (DEPP)
Parcours de rattachement
- Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing - MScT 1A
- Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing - MScT 2A
- Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Management - MScT 2A
- Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance - MScT 1A
- Cybersecurity : Threats & Defenses - MScT 1A
- Cybersecurity : Threats & Defenses - MScT 2A
- Data Science for Business - MScT 1A
- Internet of Things : Innovation and Management Program (IoT) - MScT 1A
- Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance - MScT 2A
- Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy - MScT 2A
- Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Management - MScT 1A
- Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy - MScT 1A
- Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management (STEEM) - MScT 2A
- Internet of Things : Innovation and Management Program (IoT) - MScT 2A
- Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management (STEEM) - MScT 1A
- MScT DEPP - Semestre 1
- MScT-DDDF-S1 - MScT DDDF - Semestre 1
Objectifs de développement durable
ODD 16 Paix, justice et institutions efficaces.Format des notes
Numérique sur 20Littérale/grade réduitPour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Management
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Internet of Things : Innovation and Management Program (IoT)
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Data Science for Business
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Cybersecurity : Threats and Defenses
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
La note obtenue rentre dans le calcul de votre GPA.
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Data and Economics for Public Policy (DEPP)
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Double Degree Data and Finance (DDDF)
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 1.5 ECTS
Programme détaillé
Course Organization
Section I: Introduction (2h)
Chapter 1: Understanding and defining geopolitics
- Differentiating foreign policy, international relations, geopolitics and political geography
- Tools and objectives of geopolitics
Section II: Major schools and their applications
Chapter 2: The German school (4h)
- Ratzel, Haushofer and the question of borders
- Historical case-study: Geopolitics of Nazi Germany
- Fictional case-study: The reconstruction of the Democratic, Popular Republic of Great Valadanyia
Chapter 3: The Anglo-American school (7h)
- The importance of the Sea and Cultural Identity: seapower or sea power?
- Historical case-studies: British and Russian attempts to build a seapower state
- The global opposition Sea/Land : from Mackinder to Brzezinski
- Historical case-study: the “Great Game” from the Anglo-Russian opposition to a future Sino-American confrontation?
- Fictional case-study: take home exam
Chapter 4: Resurging and emerging geopolitics (5)
- Russian geopolitics and the concept of a “Eurasian World”
- China and the belt initiative
In class exam: fictional case-study (2h)