Syllabus
1. Introduction; determination of basic ideas and conceptions. Why it is important to pay attention to geopolitics.
2. Europe after 1815; shift of political map; correlation of forces and principle of royalistic solidarity.
3. Impact of Napoleonic wars in global scale; Pax Britannia.
4. Revolutions in Europe; Great game played by Britain and Russia in Asia.
5. Geopolitical changes evoked by unification of Italy and Germany; Civil war in the USA.
6. Penetration of European powers to deep interior of Asia and Africa. Europe as global leader.
7. Situation in Europe on the eve of 1st WW; concept of four global empires.
8. 1st WW - geopolitical images and reality; failure of peripherial strategy.
9. Versailles conference and new European order; Cordon Sanitaire; destruction of Russia and emergence of USSR.
10. Destruction of the Ottoman Empire - new teritorialization of the Middle East.
11. The League of Nations; Washington conference and situation in Asia-Pacific region.
12. 1920s and 1930s in Europe and in the World; transformation ot the Britishe Empire and emergence of the British Commonwealth of Nations; military "revolution" of
1935.
13. Test.
Annotation
Main ambition of this course is to demonstrate how political map of Europe and of the World was transformed during 20th century and what kind of motives were behind. Most prominent geopoliticians and their theories will be presented.