At the end of this course, the students; 1) Knowledge of the major security events that shape the world. 2) Knowledge of major substantive themes in International Relations. 3) Basic understanding of the states, major international and regional institutions in world politics as well as significant developments in world politics. 4) Ability to analyze world politics from a variety of international organizations? perspectives. 5)
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
COURSE DEFINITION
The objective of this course is to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of the role and activities of international organizations (IO) in the early 21st century. The focus, therefore, is on the philosophy and principles of IO as well as issues that they try to deal. This course is consisted of two different parts. The first part tries to examine the rationale of IO by dealing with the origins, the nature, theory and methods of them. The second part is about global organizations and especially the United Nations (UN) system. In this part, after discussing the first global IO, the League of Nations, the United Nations, as one of the core issues of the course, will be investigated in detail. In this part, some functional and specialized institutions of the UN such as WHO, ILO, FAO in addition to NATO will also be explained.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction to international organizations
2nd Week
International Organizations in a period of globalization: New problems of legitimacy (Book: The Legitimacy of International Organizations, pp. 189-220)
3rd Week
International Organizations in World Politics (Book: The Oxford Handbook of International Or-ganizations, pp. 3-32)
4th Week
International Organizations and International Law (Book: The Oxford Handbook of Interna-tional Organizations, pp. 33-59)
5th Week
International Organizations, 1945-present (Book: The Oxford Handbook of International Organ-izations, pp. 113-130)
6th Week
Formal Intergovernmental Organizations, Supranational Organizations. (Book: The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, pp. 133-170)
7th Week
Peace Operations (Book: The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, pp. 191-210)Turkiye and UN Peacekeeping Missions (Book: Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics, pp. 459-469) Introduction (Book: The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Opera-tions, pp. 1-7) Reflection Paper#1
8th Week
Mid Term Exams
9th Week
Official Holiday
10th Week
Guest Speaker on International Organizations
11th Week
International Organizations and Health (Book: The Oxford Handbook of International Organi-zations, pp. 447-470)
12th Week
United Nations (UN webpage: https://www.un.org/en/) Reflection Paper#2 Presentations
13th Week
NATO (NATO webpage: https://www.nato.int/) Presentations
14th Week
US Hegemony and International Organizations (Book: US Hegemony and International Organiza-tions, pp. 1-19) Presentations
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Katz, Jacob. Hurd, Cogan Ian and Johnstone, Ian (2016). The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press: London.
Koops, Joachim A. Macqueen, Norrie. Tardy, Thierry and Williams, Paul D. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Oxford University Press: London.
Özerdem, Alpaslan and Whiting, Matthew (2019). Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics. Rotledge: NY.
Coicaud, Jean-Marc and Heiskanen, Veijo (2001). The Legitimacy of International Organizations, United Nations University Press: NY.
Foot, Rosemary. MacFarlane, S.Neil and Mastanduno (2003). Michael US Hegemony and Interna-tional Organizations. Oxford University Press: London.
United Nations webpage: https://www.un.org/en/
NATO webpage: https://www.nato.int/
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
20
Assignment
1
10
Quiz
1
10
Attendance
1
10
Total(%)
50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
50
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
1
1
1
Preparation for Quiz
1
20
20
Individual or group work
14
2
28
Preparation for Final exam
1
30
30
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
15
15
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
1,5
1,5
Homework
1
15
15
Total Workload
152,5
Total Workload / 30
5,08
ECTS Credits of the Course
5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
