Advanced Diploma in Geopolitics
4th 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
Santiago Álvarez Herrero (UNAM, Mexico); Renata Libonati (UFRJ, Brazil); Rodolfo Sabonge (MEF, Panama); Oscar Ugarteche (UNAM, Mexico); Irene Vélez (UdV, Colombia); Breno Bringel (UERJ, Brazil); Olaf Siville Marta Fernandez (PUC, Brazil); Tamara Latjman (UBA, Argentina); Enrique Leff (UNAM, Mexico); Fernando Estenssoro (USaCh, Chile); Monica Bruckmann (UFRJ, Brazil) and Juan Agulló (UNILA, Brazil)
Virtual modality | August to December 2025
Home: 20 / 08 / 2025 | Registration: 09/05/2025 al 19/08/2025
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:
Conceptual summary of the class
Class 2: History of geopolitical thought in Latin America
3 Class: A question of method: How to do geopolitics?
Class 2: Strategic Infrastructure and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade
3 Class: The BRICS in the new global context
ProfessorMarta Fernández
Class 2: Geopolitics of socio-environmental impacts. Environmental Justice
This module analyzes three key regional cases to understand the contemporary geopolitical dynamics facing Latin America and the Caribbean. First, it will examine the Panama Canal as a critical logistics hub that has traditionally channeled rivalries and certainly contributes to projecting the Caribbean's influence. Second, it will explore the equatorial Pacific (Panama-Chancay-Galapagos) as a contested space currently under construction. Finally, it will examine the South Atlantic, where resources, maritime routes, and access to Antarctica are contributing to the resurgence and redefinition of old rivalries.
Class 1: The Panama Canal: so strategic?
ProfessorRodolfo Sabonge
2 Class: Geopolitics of the equatorial Pacific: an area under reevaluation
ProfessorsÓscar Ugarteche and Tamara Latjman
| Early registration (until 04/08) | General registration (August 5th to 14th) | Registration without discount (August 15-19) | Payment in 3 installments | |
| Full or Associate Member Center | $125 | $185 | $240 | USD 315 (3 x USD 105) |
| No Link | $250 | $310 | $370 | USD 540 (3 x USD 180) |
* Residents of Argentina will pay the equivalent in Argentine pesos according to the official exchange rate of the Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA) on the day of payment.
You must be registered in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC) and enter your username and password. If you are not registered, click here. hereTo access the registration form, you must click the "Register" button on the webpage of the Diploma you are interested in.
Upon completion of the registration process, you will receive a confirmation in your email.
Classes will begin in August and will conclude in December 2025.
All registered participants will receive, on the first day of activities, 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. For inquiries, you can write to [email protected]
You must write an email with the request to [email protected] We will send you the requested certificate as soon as possible.
Exceptional criteria: In exceptional cases and within the first 20 days of starting the Higher Diploma, the student may write to [email protected] Requesting withdrawal and stating the reasons. After the case is evaluated, a response will be sent to the request. If approved, the student may resume the Higher Diploma program if a new cohort is offered the following year. 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.
Yes, the advanced diploma is certified by CLACSO. The diploma will be sent digitally and is completely free of charge.
Payment can be made in one installment, by credit card 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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The Advanced Diploma program integrates a dynamic of asynchronous and synchronous classes. Classes are primarily asynchronous. The schedule for synchronous sessions will be communicated by the Diploma coordinator at the beginning of the program, and participation in these sessions is not a prerequisite for passing the program.
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