Political geography provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, theories, methods, principles and models of geographic thought appropriate for analyzing politics and political relations. This course enables students to use geography in order to gain an understanding of global political actions, related military, ethnic, or religious conflicts, cultural practices, economic relationships, and resource use decisions with interregional or international implications.

Analysis of the political relations among social and/or national-cultural groups in space, for space, and, lastly, using space on the local, national and international level. The political organization of modern societies: state, nation and national state, types of states. Boundaries and borders, sovereignty, administrative and political divisions. Political structures of “belonging”: identity, otherness, multi-culturalism. Refutation of the principle of the nation-state. Different types of population movements and migration. Electoral systems and geography. Theories of international relations. Geopolitics and its various schools of thought. International law and political geography of the sea. International political relations and regimes in geographical regions. State relations in the era of Cold War and after the Cold War era. Supra-national military and political organizations, economic integration and reduction of national sovereignty. Non-Governmental Organizations, pressure groups and social movements. Issues of globalization. Terrorism.