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Program of Political Science and International Relations (English 30%)

PSIR419

TURKEY IN GLOBALIZATION PROCESS

Course Code
PSIR419
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Develop a perspective of the globalization process.
  2. Examine the impact of globalization over the nation-state, economy, and society.
  3. Develop a perspective of Turkey's experiences in the globalization process.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionThis course argues that, contrary to popular belief, the phenomenon of globalization did not emerge at the end of the 20th century but rather at the beginning of the 19th century and was an integral part of the formation of modernity. In this regard, the phenomenon of globalization emerged long before, for example, the compression of time and space resulting from advances in transportation and communication, or the erosion of nation-state sovereignty by the transnationalization of capital. but rather with the emergence of Western/European modernity (civilization, nation, religion, etc.) concepts and institutions (such as the nation-state) as (hegemonic) criteria used to understand and organize the rest of the world and the rest of the world itself. Therefore, the course will discuss Turkey's position in the process of globalization, which it assumes to be inherent in Western modernity, in light of globalization, the establishment and transformations of the modern international order, the exhaustion of alternative paths/forms of modernity (fascism, communism, liberal democracy), and the questioning of modernity itself (post-modernism). This will inevitably mean evaluating the establishment of the Republic as a nation-state, its transition to democracy, its maintenance and eventual exhaustion of a flawed democracy, and its subsequent return to an authoritarian regime within a global context, starting with the Ottoman modernization of the 19th century. This assessment will be discussed based on approaches such as global history and global intellectual history, examining how mutually exclusive cultural dichotomies such as East-West and West-Islam were established as instruments of hegemony, why they are invalid, and why they must be invalidated.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Theoretical Background
2nd Week Conceptual Globalization
3rd Week Conceptual Globalization
4th Week Conceptual Globalization
5th Week The International Order as the Institutionalization of the Nation-State Model and Hierarchical Dualities
6th Week The International Order as the Institutionalization of the Nation-State Model and Hierarchical Dualities
7th Week Midterm Exam
8th Week After Fascism
9th Week After Fascism
10th Week After Communism
11th Week After Communism
12th Week Becoming Authoritarian While Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonial Critiques Between Localism and Progressivism.
13th Week Authoritarianism in the Reconsideration of Modernity: Postcolonial Critiques Between Localism and Progressivism.
14th Week Authoritarianism in the Reconsideration of Modernity: Postcolonial Critiques Between Localism and Progressivism.
Recommended or Required ReadingChristopher Alan Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, Blackwell, 2004.
Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, çeviren Patrick Camiller, Princeton University Press, 2009, chps. 8&9.
Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori, Global Intellectual History, Columbia University Press, 2013.
Sebastian Conrad, What Is Global History?, Princeton University Pres, 2013.
Einar Wigen, State of Translatıon: Turkey in Interlingual Relations, University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Katerina Dalacoura, Islamic Civilization as an Aspect of Secularization in Turkish Islamic Thought, Historical Social Research, 44, 3 (2019): 127-149.
Cemil Aydın, The Idea of the Muslim World A Global Intellectual History, Harvard University Press, 2017.
Thomas Bauer, Müphemlik Kültürü ve İslam: Farklı Bir İslam Tarihi Okuması, çev. Tanıl Bora, İletişim, 2011.
Aslı Çırakman, From Tyranny to Despotism: The Enlightenments Unenlightened Image of Turks, IJMES, 33 (2001): 49-68.
Gökhan Çetinsaya, Kalemiye?den Mülkiye?ye Tanzimat Zihniyeti
Huricihan İslamoğlu, Dünya Tarihi ve Siyaset, İletişim, 2021.
Ayşe Zarakol, What made the modern world hang together: socialisation or stigmatisation? International Theory, 6, 2 (2014): 311-332.
Gerrit W. Gong, The Standard of Civilization in International Society, Clarendon Press, 1984.
Ntina Tzouvala, Capıtalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Ayşe Zarakol, After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Ayşe Zarakol, Erken Cumhuriyet dönemi Türkiye?sinin uluslararası ilişkiler tarihi açısından önemi, Toplum ve Bilim, 164, (2023): 32-46.
Ozan Özavcı, Doğu Sorunu, Lozan anı ve Cumhuriyet'in güvensizlik hafızası, Toplum ve Bilim, 164, (2023): 6-32,
Çağlar Keyder, Türkiye?de Devlet ve Sınıflar, İletişim, 2003, 5. Baskı.
Ateş Uslu, Hür Dünya?nın Saflarında, Osmanlı?dan Gününüze Türkiye?de Siyasal Hayat içinde, der. G. Atılgan, C. Saraçoğlu, A. Uslu, Yordam, 2015.
Menderes Çinar & Çagkan Sayin Reproducing the Paradigm of Democracy in Turkey: Parochial Democratization in the Decade of Justice and Development Party, Turkish Studies, 15,3 (2014): 365-385,
Nilgün Önder, Integrating with the Global Market: The State and the Crisis of Political Representation, International Journal of Political Economy, 28, 2 (1998): 44-84.
Eylem Yilmaz and Pinar Bilgin, Constructing Turkey's Western Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft, International Journal, 61, 1 (2005/6): 39-59.
Jacinta O?Hagan, Conceptualizing the West in International Relations, Palgrave, 2002, chps. 6&7
Shireen Hunter, Bridge or frontier? Turkey?s Post?Cold War Geopolitical Posture, The International Spectator, 34,1 (1999): 63-78.
Ümit Cizre, Rethinking the connections between Turkey?s Western identity versus Islam, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East, 7, 12 (1998): 3-18,
Çağ?lar Keyder, The Dilemma of Cultural Identity on the Margin of Europe, Review, 16, 1 (1993): 19-33.
Lerna Yanık, The Metamorphosis of Metaphors of Vision: Bridging Turkey?s Location, Role and Identity after the End of Cold War, Geopolitics, 14, 3 (2009): 531-549.
Ayla Göl, The Identity of Turkey: Muslim and Secular, Third World Quarterly, 30, 4 (2009): 795-811.
Paul Kubicek, The European Union and Grassroots Democratization in Turkey, Turkish Studies, 6, 3 (2005): 361-377.
Necati Polat, Identity Politics and the Domestic Context of Turkey?s European Union Accession, Government and Opposition, 41, 4 (2009): 512?533.
David Harvey, Postmodernliğin Durumu, Metis, 1997.
Gurminder K. Bhambra, Moderniteyi Yeniden Düşünmek: Postkolonyalizm ve Sosyolojik Tahayyül, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2015.
Robert J. Young, Postkolonyalizm: Tarihsel bir Giriş, Matbu, 2016.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Attendance 1 10
Other 1 10
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1.25 1.25
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 3 42
Preparation for Final exam 1 20 20
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 18 18
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1.25 1.25
Homework
Project 1 30 30
Total Work Load154.5
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.15
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No
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