POS-266 Contemporary Global Geopolitics

Evolution of international systems; emergence of nation-states and the nation imagination; great power and colonization; Cold War and balance of power; the end of Cold War and post-Cold war geopolitical world order; emerging of the East and new great powers, including China, India, Russia, and Brazil; issues and influences of old and new geopolitics, such as territorial disputes, global climate change, nuclear proliferation, etc.