2. Agenda
Agenda
INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY &
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• Course overview
• Geopolitical issues of our times
3. Contact Info
Agenda
EMAIL:
npapadopoulou@groupeinseec.com
Office: Tolozan
4. INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY
& INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Course overview
Geopolitical issues and challenges of our times
5. Rules
Agenda
- No talking or side conversations.
- No open computers
- Turn off your cell phones
- Listen, learn & participate
6. Course Objectives
Agenda
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.
7. Course Structure
Agenda
(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.
12. Grades: Debate
Agenda
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.
13. Grades: Debate
Agenda
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.
14. Grades: Position Paper
Agenda
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
15. Grades: Position Paper
Agenda
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.
16. Dates of Agenda by Group
Debates
Debate A B C D E F
Practice Oct. 31 Oct. 31 Nov. 12 Oct. 30 Oct. 31 Oct. 31
Debate-US
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. Dec. 3 Dec. 3 Dec. 3 Nov. 28 Nov. 27 Dec. 10
Asia
Geopolitics Dec. 4 Dec. 10 Dec. 10 Dec. 10 Dec. 4 Dec. 11
17. INTRODUCTION TO GEOSTRATEGY &
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Course overview
Geopolitical issues and challenges of our times
22. TheWars: of Violence is
Threat For Worthy
Not Always Necessary
Causes?
Ping Pong Diplomacy, April 6-17, 1971
23. Wars: of the Cold War
The legacy For Worthy
Causes?
The Cuban Revolution, 1959
24. Wars: of the Cold War
The legacy For Worthy
Causes?
Vietnam War 1955-1975
25. Wars: of the Cold War
The legacy For Worthy
Causes?
Augusto Pinochet, Ruler of Chile, 1973-89
26. Wars: of the Cold War
The legacy For Worthy
Causes?
Russian invasion of Afghanistan 1979-1986
27. Wars: of the Cold War
The legacy For Worthy
Causes?
The Korean War and the 38th Parallel
28. Terrorism isFor Worthy
Wars: not a (Middle)
Eastern Practice
Causes?
Aldo Moro, Italian statesman
Kidnapped and killed by the Red
Brigades in 1978.
56. So whatAgenda
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.
57. So whatAgenda
is geopolitics?
Space
GEO POLITICS
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.
58. So whatAgenda
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.
59. So whatAgenda
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).
60. So whatAgenda
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).
61. So whatAgenda
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).
