Lecture Notes

PLEASE FIND COURSE NOTES ON GEOPOLITICAL CODES AND MORE HERE.

PLEASE FIND COURSE NOTES ON WESTPHALIAN SYSTEM AND GEOPOLITICS AND MORE HERE.

PLEASE FIND NOTES ON AGNEW's CLASSIFICATION OF GEOPOLITICS INTO 3 HERE.

PLEASE FIND COURSE NOTES FROM A FEW YEARS BACK BY A STUDENT HERE.

Also, here are a couple of "example questions" from earlier years of PSI318:

1) Discuss the following quote: “Nationality has been a key identity in international relations for much of the modern period, and the marriage of “nation” and “state” produced a powerful polity – the national state – that dominated global politics.” (Richard Mansbach and Edward Rhodes, 'the National State and Identity Politics: State Institutionalisation and "Markers" of National Identity', Geopolitics, 12:3, 426 – 458, 2007). 

2) How can the World System be represented geopolitically? Explain one theory that is in that category and mention how it works and what makes this approach different from other geopolitical approaches on the same subject.

Please find HERE the notes for the 30 March 2015 lecture. Please read them as they will come up at the final exam.

Please find the notes for 13 May 2014 lecture here.

Please find the notes for the 22-29 April lectureS here.