Advanced Diploma in Geopolitics
3th Cohort | Virtual Modality
ACADEMIC COORDINATION
Monica Bruckmann (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Juan Agulló (Federal University for Latin American Integration, Brazil)
PROFESSORS
Jaime Preciado (University of Guadalajara, Mexico), Pablo Uc (University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas, Mexico), Mariana Vazquez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Guillaume Long (Center for Economic and Policy Research, United States), Milton Reyes (Institute of Higher National Studies, Ecuador), Gijón Sea (University of the Basque Country), Lina Luna (Externado University, Colombia), Elisa Pinheiro de Freitas (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil), María José Rodríguez Rejas (Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico), Tamara Latjman (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Fernando Estenssoro (University of Santiago, Chile), Monica Bruckmann (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Juan Agulló (Federal University for Latin American Integration, Brazil)
Virtual modality | August to November 2024
Home: 26 / 08 / 2024 | Registration: 28/05/2024 al 25/08/2024
The Advanced Diploma in Geopolitics is designed to provide:
a) A broad perspective on the history of geopolitical thought;
b) methodological tools so that critical production in this area begins to be carried out with academic rigor and cross-cutting themes and
c) A strategic perspective on the contemporary world system, with a special focus on Latin America. To this end, a large group of renowned professors (from up to 12 different countries) will contribute, along with the regular instructors, to introducing schools of thought and authors, providing academic resources, and analyzing specific cases.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- To provide a broad overview of the evolution of geopolitical thought.
- To provide methodological tools aimed at promoting rigorous critical production in this area.
- To provide a broad and structural view of the current state of the World-System.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Understanding geopolitics as a field of problematization.
- To perceive the differences and similarities that exist between classical and contemporary geopolitical thought.
- To gain an understanding of the characteristics and peculiarities of Latin American geopolitical thought.
- Identify some of the basic geopolitical problems of the contemporary World-System.
- Identify some of the basic geopolitical problems of contemporary Latin America.
- Identify the academic infrastructure for the production and exchange of critical geopolitical knowledge (reference bibliography and newspapers; observatories, associations; etc).
- Incorporate the basic methodological principles of Critical Geopolitics.
The Higher Diploma in Geopolitics is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade unions, social movements and political parties; public officials; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the subject.
The program is organized into modules with weekly classes, each taught consecutively and linked to the others.
Total workload of 128 hours.
The modules that comprise the Higher Diploma are:
1) An initial meeting so that the participants can introduce themselves and meet the coordinating team, who will take the opportunity to present the contents of the 2024 edition.
2) The official opening in which a renowned Latin American academic will give a master class.
3) A recorded session that will be distributed later in which Geopolitics will be introduced through a delimitation of its contents and orientations based on three basic questions: What is Geopolitics? Why and for what purpose do Geopolitics? How and where do Geopolitics?
Class 2: Classical geopolitical thought
Responsible and adaptableJuan Agulló
Class 3: Critical geopolitical thinking
Responsible and adaptableJuan Agulló
4 Class: Renewed themes and approaches for a Geopolitics from Latin America
Responsible and adaptable: Pablo Uc
6 ClassThe geopolitical reconfiguration of the world-system
Responsible: Mónica Bruckmann
7 ClassThe US, the great unknown
Responsible and adaptable: Guillaume Long
8 ClassChina/Russia, the great alliance
Responsible and adaptableMilton Reyes
Class 10: Latin America in the new global context
Responsible and adaptableMonica Bruckmann
Class 11: Extra-regional geopolitical actors in Latin America
Responsible and adaptableLina Luna
Class 12: Geopolitics of the environmental crisis and natural resources in Latin America
Responsible and adaptableMaría José Rodríguez Rejas and Tamara Latjman
14 ClassLatin American integration in the new global context
| In one payment by 19/08 | In one payment after 19/08 | Payment in 3 installments | |
| CM Pleno | $185 | $240 | USD 315 (3 x USD 105) |
| CM Associate | $185 | $240 | USD 315 (3 x USD 105) |
| No link | $310 | $370 | USD 540 (3 x USD 180) |
To participate, it is essential that you register using the online form.
Upon completion of the registration process, you will receive a confirmation in your email.
Classes will begin in August and will conclude in November 2024.
All registered participants will receive the necessary instructions to access the classes, bibliography and discussion forums through the CLACSO Virtual Training Space.
Accessing and navigating the Virtual Learning Environment is very simple and user-friendly. In any case, a technical and academic support team will always be available to you.
Exceptional criteria: In exceptional cases, and within the first month of the start of the Advanced Diploma program, students may request to withdraw from the cohort and rejoin the following year. In all cases, the reasons for the request must be submitted in writing. After that period of time has elapsed since the start of the course, no requests will be accepted.
Money paid will only be refunded in cases where the organizing institutions decide to cancel the activity.
Payment can be made in one installment by credit card, bank deposit, or bank transfer. We also offer the option of paying in 3 installments.
Yes. There will be discounts for students belonging to CLACSO Member Centers and CLACSO Associated Centers, for CLACSO Associate Researchers, and for all those who pay within the discount period.
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