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GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!

Electoral Geography

The Geography of Politics and the Politics of Geography

Territorial organization of Government and Voting

Political Cultures

  • Political culture in Presidential Elections?

 

Theories of Geopolitics or How to Dominate the World!

Power and Territory

Ratzel and German Geopolitics

Social Darwinism and The Organic State

Lebensraum

 

Mackinder and British Geopolitics

Heartland Theory

Haushofer and Nazi Geopolitics or Geopolitik

Autarky

Pan-Regions

American Geopolitics and the Cold War

Superpowers and the "era of bipolarity"

Domino Theory

The Future?

New Hegemonic Powers?

The End of History

North South Divide

Economic Citizenship and the Transformation of Sovereignty

New Economic Pan-Regions?

Fragmentation and/or Unification?

Urban Geography and The Coming "Urban Century"

 

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