Power, geography, and the global order. The Westphalian state system, hard / soft / sharp power, Mackinder's Heartland Theory, Spykman's Rimland, Mahan & Sea Power, realism vs liberalism vs constructivism, polarity (uni / bi / multipolar), the Cold War & containment, the post-Cold War order, the United States & hegemony, China & the Belt and Road, Russia, the European Union, India, Japan & the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan & the South China Sea, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Arctic, energy geopolitics, water wars, food security & grain wars, maritime chokepoints (Hormuz, Malacca, Suez), cyber & information warfare, space geopolitics, climate geopolitics, migration as strategy, US–China great power competition, and the future order. 35 units, 525 lessons.