At the end of this course, the students; 1) Grasp the impacts of Characteristics of the major actors and developments in international relations. 2) Explain the main elements and development of International system. 3) Gain introductory knowledge about basic approaches in international relations. 4) Have conceptual knowledge on analyzing the foreign policy and decision making processes. 5) Summarize the development of basic international law and the post world war two system of United Nations. 6) Understand the changes in primary institutions of post world war two international political economy.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
No recommended optional program components.
COURSE DEFINITION
After the fundamental concepts and principles of political, economic and security relations among nations and areas are introduced, the political and economic relations in the international arena will be studied. The trends of the developing international system such as trade, regional integration, environment, the North-South gap, international development, globalization and inequality are among the topics that will be covered. In addition, the regional and global topics and events regarding the world order after the Cold War will be covered, new developments will be introduced and topics that may not be considered as directly related to International Relations at first sight but that are closely related will be included.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Perspectives in Approaches to International Relations and Levels of Analysis
2nd Week
Realist Perspective in International System and Its Elements
3rd Week
Liberal Perspective in International System and Its Elements
4th Week
Identity in International System
5th Week
Globalization and Different Perspectives
6th Week
Globalization from the Realist and Liberal Perspectives
7th Week
Globalization from the Identity Perspective
8th Week
Globalization from the Critical Theory Perspective
9th Week
International Organizations and Integrations
10th Week
Environment in International Relations
11th Week
Let's Discuss the Problem: Globalization-State Authority; the USA and Russia Relations
12th Week
Policy Perspectives: Presidents of the USA, Russia, and China
13th Week
Let's Discuss the Problem: Disarmament, Europen Integration
14th Week
Policy Perspectives: Prime Minister of Great Britain, Presidents of France and Germany
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Required Reading Books
Michael G. Roskin ve Nicholas O. Berry, Uluslararası İlişkiler (Uİ?nin Yeni Dünyası), Adres Yayınları, Ankara, 2014.
Paul R. Viotti ve Mark V. Kauppi, Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Dünya Siyaseti, Nobel Yayınları, İstanbul 2014.
Cengiz Dinç ve Bülent Akkuş (Ed.), Küresel ve Büyük Güçlerin Stratejileri, Orion Yayınları, Ankara, 2017.
Daron Acemoğlu ve James A. Robinson, Ulusların Düşüşü, Doğan Kitap, İstanbul, 2013.
Cengiz Dinç (Ed.), Avrupa ve Avrupa Birliği, Savaş Yayınevi, Ankara, 2015.
Mustafa Aydın, Hans Günter Brauch, Mitat Çelikpala, Ursula Oswald Spring ve Necati Polat, Uluslararası İlişkilerde Çatışmadan Güvenliğe, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012.
Articles
Disarmament:
Bonnie Docherty (2018) A `light for all humanity?: the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the progress of humanitarian disarmament, Global Change, Peace & Security, 30:2, 163-186.
Dan Plesch (2016) The South and disarmament at the UN, Third World Quarterly, 37:7, 1203-1218.
Jeffrey W. Knopf (2018) After diffusion: Challenges to enforcing nonproliferation and disarmament norms, Contemporary Security Policy, 39:3, 367-398.
Jacques Fontanel & Fanny Coulomb (2000) Disarmament in the next millennium, Defence and Peace Economics, 11:1, 105-125.
Nick Ritchie & Kjolv Egeland (2018) The diplomacy of resistance: power, hegemony and nuclear disarmament, Global Change, Peace & Security, 30:2, 121-141.
Globalization:
Clyde W. Barrow (2005) The Return of the State: Globalization, State Theory, and the New Imperialism, New Political Science, 27:2, 123-145.
John M. Hobson & M. Ramesh (2002) Globalisation Makes of States What States Make of It: Between Agency and Structure in the State/Globalisation Debate, New Political Economy, 7:1, 5-22.
Maria Gritsch (2005) The nation-state and economic globalization: soft geopolitics and increased state autonomy?, Review of International Political Economy, 12:1, 1-25.
Martin Shaw (1997) The state of globalization: towards a theory of state transformation, Review of International Political Economy, 4:3, 497-513.
Terry Flew (2018) Post-Globalisation, Javnost - The Public, 25:1-2, 102-109.
Zaki Laidi (2002) Does Globalisation Threaten the State? Thesis on the Fractal State, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 15:3, 393-405.
USA-Russia Relations:
Gale A. Mattox (2011) Resetting the US?Russian relationship: is `cooperative engagement? possible?, European Security, 20:1, 103-116.
Ondrej Ditrych (2014) Bracing for Cold Peace. US-Russia Relations after Ukraine, The International Spectator, 49:4, 76-96.
Stephen Blank (2010) Beyond the Reset Policy: Current Dilemmas of U.S.?Russia Relations, Comparative Strategy, 29:4, 333-367.
Dmitry Suslov (2016) US?Russia Confrontation and a New Global Balance, Strategic Analysis, 40:6, 547-560.
