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Geography 4712 Fall Semester 2002 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY Instructor: John O’Loughlin 201h Guggenheim 492-1619 email: [email protected] Office Hours: MW 1-2pm or by appt. Home page: http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/PEC/johno/johno.html Teaching Assistants: Lisa Jordan Sam Schueth 201h Guggenheim 201h Guggenheim 492-4371 492-4371 [email protected] [email protected] Office Hours: Th 2-3pm; F 3-4pm and by appt. Office Hours: 10-11am MW or by appt Home page: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~anselmi Sections 012, 013 and 015 – Lisa Jordan. Sections 011, 014 and 016 - Sam Schueth This course focuses on the international and cross-national perspectives of political geography. It deals with political, economic and social aspects of international relations from a geographical perspective and examines societies in transition in the post Cold War and 9-11 world. As such, the course has an integrative character and requires basic knowledge about international affairs. It also helps significantly to acquire (or develop) knowledge of global locations and current events through frequent reading of a substantive newspaper or magazine, such as The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, or the Economist. The course is designed for the upper-division level. It surveys some important aspects of the discipline of political geography but does not engage in a systematic survey of regional issues and conflicts. Instead, contemporary developments in the world’s regions (especially Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa) are used to illustrate the concepts from the lectures and readings. In response to student requests, we restructured the course in 1996 as a two lectures- one discussion period per week. (Formerly we had 3 lectures per week). This experiment is successful when all students come to the discussion sections having already read the material and with questions. The TA will pass out a list of key concepts/terms from the lectures and readings and will organize discussion around them; students will be assigned to a group for purposes of leading a discussion. Further details in the first recitation section meeting. Details about the format and requirements of the research paper will also be given in the discussion sections. The readings are on electronic reserve. Details on accessing the electronic files are given via the course webpage - http://www.colorado.edu/geography/courses/geog_4712_f02/ The text is Peter J. Taylor and Colin Flint, Political Geography 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 2000). PDF files of the class materials used in lecture are also available via the website for pre-lecture printing and this should help to alleviate frantic note-taking. The login is geog4712 and the password is ___.Course Overview: We begin with a short review of “geopolitics” particularly as the field developed in the U.S. before and after the Cold War. We then turn to a comprehensive framework for understanding contemporary global economic and political changes, “world-systems theory”. After these two short theoretical exegeses, we then use the theories to understand contemporary changes in the world regions. We examine economic changes first, particularly under the rubric of “globalization” and look at what effects these dramatic changes have on localities in parts of the Third World. Then we turn to the “Third Wave of Democracy” and examine the recent developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. Finally, we analyze the reasons why “nationalisms” seem to be booming, both literally and figuratively. We conclude with some considerations of what the political geography of the post 9-11 world might resemble. Grades are assigned on the basis of 30% midterm; 30% final examination; 30% term paper and 10% discussion section performance. The midterm will be held on or about 14 October. The final examination will be held on Tuesday 17th December, 1:30- 4pm. Please plan your travel accordingly. Lecture Outline Week 1: (Aug. 26) Introduction The New Geopolitics Week 2: (Sept. 2) Labor Day (no class) Classical Geopolitics Week 3: (Sept. 9) Heartland Theory and Eurasia German Geopolitics Week 4: (Sept. 16) “Democratic Geopolitics” Cold War US Geopolitcs Week 5: (Sept. 23) NATO in Kosovo - Aberration or Model for the Future US Geopolitics and the Promotion of Democracy Week 6: (Sept. 30) World-Systems Theory - Wallerstein World-Systems Theory - Modelski Week 7: (Oct. 7) Hegemonic Cycles US Hegemony in the post 9-11 World Week 8: (Oct. 14) Midterm Examination Globalization and its Effects Week 9: (Oct. 21) Challenging Globalization Restructuring in the Third World Week 10: (Oct. 28) Democratization and its Discontents Islamist Politics and GlobalizationWeek 11: (Nov. 4) Crises of the State in Capitalist Societies The Politics of Failure in the Third World Week 12: (Nov. 11) Political Transitions in Africa and Middle East Islam and Democracy Week 13: (Nov. 18) Democrats, Stalinists, Socialists and Patriots in post-Communist societies Transition to Democracy; The case of Russia Week 14: (Nov. 25) Theories of Nationalism Applications of Theories of Nationalism Week 15: (Dec. 2) Ethno-territorial conflict in the former Soviet Union The nature of conflicts in the future Week 16: (Dec. 9) Political Geography - The New World Disorder Chaos and Cosmos in the World System ________________________________________________________________________ Geography 4712 Fall 2002 Discussion Sections and Readings NOTE: DISCUSSION SECTIONS BEGIN ON AUGUST 26TH. (The keyword in ALL CAPS after the title is the name of the electronic reserve) Week 1 (Aug.26) Introduction Reading: Economist “The road to 2050: A survey of the New Geopolitics.” (ROAD TO 2050) Taylor and Flint, 1-12 Week 2 (Sep. 2) Classical Geopolitics Reading: Taylor and Flint, pp. 49-62 O’Tuathail (Critical Geopolitics) pp. 111-136 (GERMAN GEOPOLITICS) (Note – students in Monday recitations attend another section this week – Labor Day) Week 3 (Sep. 9) US Geopolitics Reading: Taylor and Flint, pp. 62-104 O’Tuathail “Thinking critically” (Geopolitics Reader) (THINKING CRITICALLY) Week 4 (Sep. 16) Post Cold War Geopolitics Reading: Taylor and Flint, pp. 12-48


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