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Learning outcomes |
1 – Introduce students to the geopolitical characteristics of the American continent as a regional unit, to the processes and relational dynamics between the main actors and inter-American organizations;
2 – Deepen students' knowledge of the political, economic and social dimensions of the main states in the American space;
3 – Given the importance of the USA as a great power, deepen the understanding of the country's domestic and foreign policy;
4 – Develop skills for analyzing international relations on the American continent and for debating them, as well as the international insertion of the American space, especially the USA.
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Syllabus |
1. Geopolitical structures and characteristics
2. Regionalism, Pan-Americanism and the Inter-American System: Dynamics, Processes and
organizations
3. North and Central America: USA, Canada and Mexico
4. South America: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela
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Main Bibliography |
Cohen, Saul Bernard. Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations. 3.ª ed. Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Cox, Michael, e Doug Stokes. US Foreign Policy. 3.ª ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2018.
Domínguez, Jorge I., e Ana Covarrubias (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the
World. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History. 2 vols. 5.ª ed. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 2017.
Gardini, Gian Luca, e Peter Lambert (eds.). Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology
and Pragmatism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Lowi, Theore J., Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere. American
Government: Power and Purpose. 15.ª ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Patrício, Raquel. Estudos de Área: América Latina. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais
e Políticas, 2012.
Skidmore, Thomas E., James N. Green, e Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America. 8.ª ed. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2013.
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