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Week 1
T: 4/3. Syllabus and assignments. Lecture: What is political geography?
R: 4/5. Lecture: What is political geography? continued. Reading: Ó Tuathail, General introduction (Ó Tuathail), 1-15, and Massey, Part one: setting the scene, 1-8. Begin Satrapi.

Week 2
T: 4/10. The forms of geopolitics. Reading: Ó Tuathail, Introduction to part one (Ó Tuathail), 17-32, Introduction to part two (Ó Tuathail), 59-74, Introduction to part three (Ó Tuathail), 119-135, Introduction to part four (Dalby), 177-187, and Introduction to part five (Routledge), 233-249.
R: 4/12. Lecture/discussion: End of geography? End of politics?. Massey's opening arguments. Reading: Massey, chapter 1, and part two: unpromising associations, 9-19.

Week 3
T: 4/17. Readings in Imperialist Geopolitics. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 1 (Mackinder), chapter 2 (Roosevelt), chapter 3 (Haushofer), chapter 4 (Hitler), chapter 5 (Bowman), and chapter 6 (Haushofer), 34-55.
R: 4/19. Time and space, part 1. Reading: Massey, chapter 2 and (a reliance on science 1), 20-35. Checking in with Satrapi

Week 4
T: 4/24. Readings in Cold War Geopolitics, part 1. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 7 (Truman), chapter 8 (Kennan), chapter 9 (Zhdanov), chapter 11 (Brezhnev), chapter 13 (CPD) and chapter 14 (END Committee), 75-84, 91-93, and 103-106.
R: 4/26. Time and space, part 2. Reading: Massey, chapter 3, 36-48. Checking in with Satrapi.

Week 5
T: 5/1. Readings in Cold War Geopolitics, part 2. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 10 (Ó Tuathail), chapter 12 (Ó Tuathail and Agnew), and chapter 15 (Fukuyama), 85-90, 94-102, and 107-115.
R: 5/3. Time and space, part 3. Reading: Massey, chapter 4, chapter 5, and part three: living in spatial times, 49-61. Details about first analytical essay posted to class weblog.

Week 6
T: 5/8. Readings in Twenty-First Century Geopolitics, part 1. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 16 (Huntington), chapter 18 (Said), and chapter 19 (Barnett), 136-144, 146-154.
R: 5/10. Globalization and space, part 1. Discussion of first essay. Reading: Massey, chapter 6, (a reliance on science? 2), (representation again, and geographies of knowledge production 1), 62-75. First essay due. Begin reading Sacco.

Week 7
T: 5/15. Readings in Twenty-First Century Geopolitics, part 2. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 17 (PNAC), chapter 20 (Ignatieff), and chapter 21 (Lieven), 145, and 155-173.
R: 5/17. Globalization and space, part 2. Reading: Massey, chapter 7, chapter 8, chapter 9, and chapter 10, 76-104.

Week 8
T: 5/22. Reading in the Geopolitics of Global Dangers. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 22 (Kaplan), chapter 23 (Dalby), chapter 24 (Le Billon), chapter 26 (Renner), chapter 28 (Prins), 188-208, 213-216, and 224-230.
R: 5/24. Reorientations. Reading: Massey, part four: reorientations, chapter 11, (a reliance on science? 3), chapter 12, and (geographies of knowledge production 2: places of knowledge production), 105-146. Checking in with Sacco.

Week 9
T: 5/29. Readings in Anti-Geopolitics, part 1. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 30 (Fanon), chapter 32 (Marcos), chapter 33 (Bin Laden), and chapter 34 (Achar), 256-258, and 262-275.
R: 5/31. A politics of space, part 1. Reading: Massey, part five: the relational politics of the spatial, chapter 13, and chapter 14, 147-176.

Week 10
T: 6/5. Readings in Anti-Geopolitics, part 2. Reading: Ó Tuathail, chapter 31 (Konrad), chapter 35 (Hyndman), and chapter 36 (Roy), 259-261 and 276-284. Details about second analytical essay posted to class weblog.
R: 6/7. A politics of space, part 2. Discussion of outlines, ideas, and directions for second essay. Reading: Massey, chapter 15, 177-195. Rewrites of essay 1 due.

Finals week: T 6/12 Second essay due at 5:00. Details to be posted on the class weblog.