Kodu | Dersin Adı | Yarıyıl | Süresi(T+U) | Kredisi | AKTS Kredisi |
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POL450 | CURRENT ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS | 8 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
DERS BİLGİLERİ |
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Dersin Öğretim Dili : | İngilizce |
Dersin Düzeyi | LİSANS, TYY: + 6.Düzey, EQF-LLL: 6.Düzey, QF-EHEA: 1.Düzey |
Dersin Türü | Zorunlu |
Dersin Veriliş Şekli | - |
Dersin Koordinatörü | Prof.Dr. NEZİHA MUSAOĞLU |
Dersi Veren Öğretim Üyesi/Öğretim Görevlisi | |
Ders Ön Koşulu | Yok |
AMAÇ VE İÇERİK |
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Amaç: | This course provides an opportunity to gain an analytically deeper understanding and reflect critically upon some of the most topical issues that currently confront international relations and which shape the development of the contemporary international order. These include but are not limited to violent conflict in the Middle East; international terrorism; the rise of China; tensions between Russia and the West; North Korea and the challenge of nuclear proliferation; US foreign policy under President Donald Trump; challenges to multilateral cooperation and liberal internationalism; human rights; humanitarian intervention; financial crises; poverty and global inequality; climate change and environmental security; migration and refugees. The course encourages students to engage in debating the nature of, and possible responses to, contemporary challenges and crises in international politics. The course applied policy focus while emphasizing the need for critical analytical depth when reflecting on the origins, nature and implications of current affairs. Students will develop an awareness of the relationship between the discipline of International Relations as a field of knowledge and the practices of world politics. |
İçerik: | This course will provide an overview of the major conflict and security related issues in world affairs since the end of the Cold War. The events and issues we are going to discuss will be analized through the lenses of the major International Relations (IR) theories (realism, liberalism, and constructivism), thus it is essential that students who take this course have a firm grasp of these theories. Our main focus will be how the concepts and theories we learn in the course apply to current international events. In the final weeks of the course, we will be debating Turkey’s “grand strategy” by taking reference five very recent articles written by leading Turkish IR scholars. |
DERSİN ÖĞRENME ÇIKTILARI (Öğrenciler, bu dersi başarı ile tamamladıklarında aşağıda belirtilen bilgi, beceri ve/veya yetkinlikleri gösterirler.) |
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Learn and critically think about the major sources of contention in world politics; |
Identify the major bodies of research in the field of international conflict and security; |
Acquire analytical thinking skills with respect to the grand subjects of International Relations; i.e. conflict and cooperation; |
Debate Turkey’s current role in world affairs |
HAFTALIK DERS KONULARI VE ÖNGÖRÜLEN HAZIRLIK ÇALIŞMALARI |
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Hafta | Ön Hazırlık | Konular | Yöntem |
1 | - | Introduction and general information on course requirements | - |
2 | - | IR theories and the relationship between theory and policy in IR | Lecture and discussions |
3 | - | Revolution and War | Lecture and discussions |
4 | - | Liberalism and Intervention | Lecture and discussions |
5 | - | Authoritarianism, natural resources, and international conflict | Lecture and discussions |
6 | - | Iran’s Nuclear Program | Lecture and discussions |
7 | - | Post-Soviet Russian-Turkish Relations | Lecture and discussions |
8 | - | ARA SINAV | - |
9 | - | NO classes – Official Holiday (National Sovereignty and Children’s Day) | Lecture and discussions |
10 | - | The end/decline of U.S. primacy and the fall of the liberal order | Lecture and discussions |
11 | - | The resurgence of Russia under Vladimir Putin | Lecture and discussions |
12 | - | NO classes – Official Holiday (Ramazan Bayramı) | Lecture and discussions |
13 | - | Who is to blame for the 2014 Ukrainian Crisis/War? (Discussion) | Lecture and discussions |
14 | - | Debating Turkey’s Grand Strategy (I) | Lecture and discussions |
15 | - | Debating Turkey’s Grand Strategy (II) | Lecture and discussions |
16 | - | FİNAL | - |
17 | - | FİNAL | - |
KAYNAKLAR |
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Stephen Walt (1998), “International Relations: One World, Many Theories”, Foreign Policy, No. 110, pp. 29-46. |
Stephen Walt (2005), “The Relationship Between Theory and Policy in International Relations”, Annual Review of Political Science, No. 8, pp. 23–48. |
Stephen Walt (1992), “Revolution and War”, World Politics, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 321-368 |
Stephen G. Brooks, John Ikenberry & William C. Wohlforth (2012), “Don’t Come Home America: The Case against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 7-51 |
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt (2016) “The Case for Offshore Balancing: A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 70-83 |
David Shambaugh (2018), “U.S.-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia: Power Shift or Competitive Coexistence?” International Security, Vol. 42, No.4, pp. 85-127 |
Mustafa Kibaroğlu (2007), “Iran’s nuclear ambitions from a historical perspective and the attitude of the West”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No.2, pp. 223-245 |
Şener Aktürk (2017), “Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict,” Turkish Policy Quarterly 15, no. 4, pp. 87-96. |
John J. Mearsheimer (2019) “Bound to fail: The rise and fall of the liberal international order”, International Security, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 7-50 |
Michael McFaul and Stephen Sestanovich (2014), “Faulty Powers: Who started the Ukraine crisis?”, Foreign Affairs, 93(6), pp. 167-171 |
Şener Aktürk (2021), “Turkey’s Grand Strategy as the Third Power: A Realist Proposal”, Perceptions, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 152-177 |
ÖLÇME VE DEĞERLENDİRME |
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Yarıyıl İçi Yapılan Çalışmaların Ölçme ve Değerlendirmesi | Etkinlik Sayısı | Katkı Yüzdesi | Açıklama |
(0) Etkisiz | (1) En Düşük | (2) Düşük | (3) Orta | (4) İyi | (5) Çok İyi |
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
KNOWLEDGE | |||||||
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Theoretical | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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Define the basic theoretical, political, economic and administrative theories used in the field of Political Science and International Relations.
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3 | |||||
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Explain the political history, political ideas, intellectual accumulation of understanding international relations and the way that the history of diplomacy has passed from past to present.
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List the norms of universal law and human rights, the principles of the modern legal system, the names of modern bureaucratic and administrative structures.
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KNOWLEDGE | |||||||
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Factual | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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Explain the Turkish state tradition, the influence of Islam, the accumulation of political thought and its historical background, and compare this accumulation with the current approaches.
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Evaluate the chronological development of relations between political and diplomatic developments and political / diplomatic facts / events / ideas / actors from past to present.
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Analyze the structure and functioning of actors, organizations and organizations that determine international relations.
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SKILLS | |||||||
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Cognitive | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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In the light of current theoretical debates, apply relevant concepts to current political and international developments.
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5 | |||||
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Evaluate the Turkish political tradition, developments with the Turkic community.
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5 | |||||
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Use information on the field when comparing the administrative structures of different countries and their diplomatic traditions.
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SKILLS | |||||||
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Practical | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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Formulate the current political developments, developments and arrangements in international relations in the historical and theoretical accumulation.
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5 | |||||
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Analyze the functioning of modern political regimes in the light of political and public bureaucratic structures, regulations and developments.
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Examine and analyze current political developments in the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and the Caucasus in terms of both Turkish political history and international relations discipline.
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5 |
OCCUPATIONAL | |||||||
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Autonomy & Responsibility | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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To conduct a field-specific study individually and to complete it with discipline and responsibility.
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5 | |||||
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To assume duties and responsibilities in a team work as leader or team member and to fulfil them flawlessly.
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OCCUPATIONAL | |||||||
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Learning to Learn | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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Follow the political and administrative developments in the international political system and the bureaucratic organizations operating in this system.
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Examine the international problems and conflicts, and the problems in the field of administration and politics in detail.
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OCCUPATIONAL | |||||||
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Communication & Social | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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Follow the current developments in the field of Political Science and International Relations and collaborate with leading names in the field.
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Examine and analyze academic resources and the written and oral studies on the political developments in the region and the world, especially in the Middle East.
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Debate in the field of political science and public administration with different target groups in multicultural environments.
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OCCUPATIONAL | |||||||
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Occupational and/or Vocational | |||||||
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları | Katkı Düzeyi | ||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
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With the current historical and theoretical knowledge of the field, suggest sustainable, organizational and administrative arrangements aimed at meeting specific goals and solving certain problems.
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2 | |||||
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To follow latest developments in the field and direct personal studies accordingly within the framework of the lifelong learning principle.Using the theoretical, economic, political and managerial knowledge, and produce reports on current developments, conflicts and agreements in geography related to world politics and especially in the Middle East.
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Construct arguments on the current developments in Turkish politics in the light of the laws, regulations, and the important changes in the constitution and administrative law that determine Turkish political life and foreign relations.
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4 |
DERSİN İŞ YÜKÜ VE AKTS KREDİSİ |
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Öğrenme-Öğretme Etkinlikleri İş Yükü | |||
Öğrenme-Öğretme Etkinlikleri | Etkinlik(hafta sayısı) | Süresi(saat sayısı) | Toplam İş Yükü |
Ders | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Derse Ön Hazırlık ve Ders Sonrası Pekiştirme | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arazi Çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grup Çalışması / Ödevi | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Laboratuvar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Okuma | 14 | 5 | 70 |
Ödev | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Proje Hazırlama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Seminer | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Staj | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teknik Gezi | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Web Tab. Öğrenme | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yerinde Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mesleki Faaliyet | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sosyal Faaliyet | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tez Hazırlama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alan Çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rapor Yazma | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Final Sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Final Sınavı Hazırlığı | 1 | 24 | 24 |
Ara Sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Ara Sınav Hazırlığı | 1 | 24 | 24 |
Kısa Sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kısa Sınav Hazırlığı | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOPLAM | 34 | 0 | 202 |
Genel Toplam | 202 | ||
Toplam İş Yükü / 25.5 | 7,9 | ||
Dersin AKTS(ECTS) Kredisi | 8,0 |