World Political Geography

Catalog description

Survey of the field of political geography based on the concept of the State. Major topics include territoriality, the development and decline of the nation-state, frontiers and borderlands, colonialism, historical and contemporary geopolitics, and international environmental laws. Modern political issues dealing with ethnicity, sovereignty, ecology, and energy will be discussed from a geographic perspective. This is an upper-division geography course, and students are encouraged to have completed GRY 100 (World Regional Geography) prior to taking this course.