Syllabus
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Course Code: M-GEO-304 (i) (elective) Course Name: Political Geography |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1. Nature and scope of political geography, its approaches and recent trends. 2. School of thoughts: political economy, world system, globalization. |
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| 2 | 3. Concept of nation, state and nation-state, nationalism and nation building, emergence and growth of territorial state, globalization and the crisis of the territorial state forms of governance: unitary and federal. 4. Distinction between frontiers and boundaries, demarcation of boundaries, classification and functions of boundaries. 5. Landlocked state: advantages and disadvantages. |
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| 3 | 6. Global strategic views: Mahan and Sea power; Mackinder and Heartland; Spykman and Rimland Servasky and Air power. 7. Geo-politics in the post-cold war world- S.B. Cohen’s model of geo-politics. |
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| 4 | 8. Emergence of India as regional power: geo-political significance of Indian and Pacific Ocean. 9. Geo-political issues in India with special reference to water disputes and riparian claims. 10. Gerrymandering and electoral abuse in India. 11. Kashmir problem and Indo-Pak relations. |
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