TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Menderes Çınar
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Develop an understanding about the role and place of religion in late modern or postmodern so-cieties, 2) Gain knowledge about the old and new impacts of ?the religion factor? on the international relations and how it has been neglected by the Westphalian-system-based international relations theory, 3) Develop analytical skills to assess the impact of cultural essentialism on international relations and international relations theory, 4) Develop skills to discuss the capacity of the civilizational foreign policy discourse to contribute to the making of the universal civilization.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course comprises of three parts. In the first part, recent academic literature that investigates the secular prejudice of the international relations theory and carries the 'religion' element of international relations into this theory will be introduced to the students and the "Eurocentrism" of international relations theory will be discussed. In the second part, Orientalist essentialism as a prelude of the exclusionary and Islamophobic approaches that complicate the civilization imagination based on mutual citizenship will be examined. Debates on Turkey?s membership in the European Union and the cases of Muslim diasporas in the West will be examined and the instances of essentialist approaches will be presented. Lastly, recent Turkish Foreign Policy will be reviewed and its capacity and potentiality to overcome the obstacles to a common civilization based on citizenship will be evaluated. Finally, the course will investigate whether values such as human rights and democracy are universal at the level of international relations theory.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Secularism, post-secularism and religion I 3rd Week Secularism, post-secularism and religion II 4th Week Religion and secularism in the İnternational Relations Theory 5th Week The role of religion in foreign affairs I 6th Week The role of religion in foreign affairs II 7th Week Cultural essentialism in the IR theory 8th Week Mid-term 9th Week Islamophobia and Europhobia 10th Week The search for a non-Eurocentric IR theory 11th Week Islamist aspects of the civilizational foreign policy 12th Week Impediments to a common civic civilization 13th Week Student Papers 14th Week Conclusions and general evaluation 15th Week
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	A. Davutoğlu, ?Principles of TFP,? SETA DC, 8 December 2009. Alexander Murinson, ?The Strategic Depth Doctrine of Turkish Foreign Policy,? Middle Eastern Studies, 42, 6 (2006), pp. 945-964. Charles Taylor, ?Western Secularity,? in Rethinking Secularism, eds. Craig Calhoun et al. (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 31-53. Clifford Geertz, ?Kültürel Bir Sistem Olarak Din,? in Din Sosyolojisi, ed. Yasin Aktay ve M.E. Köktaş (Vadi: Ankara, 1998) D. Jung and W. Piccoli, Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East, (Zed Books, London, 2001), pp.132-152. D. Philpott and T. S. Shah, ?Faith, Freedom, and Federation: The Role of Religious Ideas and Institutions in European Political Convergence,? in Religion in an Expanding Europe, ed. T. A. Byrnes and P. J. Katzenstein (Cambrigde University Press, Cambridge, 2006), pp. 34-64. Diwar Hussain, ?The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe: Representation and their Relationship with the State,? Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East, eds., J. L. Esposito and F. Burgat, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003), pp.215-250. Edward W. Said, Şarkiyatçılık: Batı?nın Şark Anlayışları (Metis: İstanbul, 1995), ?Giriş? pp. 11-41. Elizabeth S. Hurd, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations, (Princeton Univeristy Press, Prince-ton, 2008), pp. 1-45. Elizabeth S. Hurd, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations, (Princeton University Press, Prince-ton, 2008 Fred Halliday, ?West Encountering Islam: Islamophobia Reconsidered,? in Islam Encountering Globalization, (Routledge: London, 2002), pp. 14-35. Haldun Gülalp, ?Enlightenment by Fiat: Secularization and Democracy in Turkey,? Middle Eastern Studies, 41, 3 (2005), pp. 351-372. Heiner Bielefeldt, ?`Western? versus `Islamic? Human Rights Conceptions? A Critique of Cultural Essentialism in the Discussion of Human Rights,? Political Theory, 28, 1 (2000), pp. 90-121. ICG, Turkey and the Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints, International Crisis Group Report No. 203, 7 April 2010. James P. Piscatori, Islam in a World of Nation-States, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988), pp. 42-45. Jashua Walker, ?Turkey?s Imperial Legacy: Understanding Contemporary Turkey through its Ottoman Past,? Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 8 (2009), pp. 494-508. Jonatan Fox, ?Religion as an Overlooked Element of International Relations,? International Studies Review, 3, 3 (2001), pp. 53-73. Jose Casanova, ?Religion, European Secular Identities, and European Integration,? in Religion in an Expanding Europe, ed. T. A. Byrnes and P. J. Katzenstein (Cambrigde University Press, Cambridge, 2006), pp. 65-91.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Total(%) 0 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 0 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 100 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 6 84 Preparation for Final exam 1 150 150 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 24 24 Homework Total Workload 300 Total Workload / 30 10 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No