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Ph.D. on International Relations

PSIR623

POLITICAL HISTORY

Course Code
PSIR623
Semester
Second Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelDoctorate Of Science
Year of Study1
SemesterSecond Term (Spring)
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Understand, interpret and compare current events based on the examples in political history.
  2. Analyze the transformations of political history from World War I to recent developments after the end of the Cold War.
  3. Understand the main developments, events and thoughts that affect the course of political history.
  4. Learn the historical roots of current international developments and make deep analyzes.
  5. establish a cause-effect relationship between events, think multi-dimensionally, and analyze political history from a theoretical perspective.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNo
Course DescriptionThis course covers global and regional events from the European Medieval Period to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the first stage, focusing on the developments in Europe, the way leading to the Enlightenment process, its effects on the French Revolution, the results of the Revolution and the new ideologies that emerged, the developments in the world and in Europe during the way leading to the World War I will be explained chronologically. Problems posed by Nazi Germany; World War II, formation of a bipolar world order; the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Berlin and Cuban crises, the detente period, and the end of the bipolar world order with the collapse of the USSR are among the topics to be covered in the course. In the course, in which a multidisciplinary approach will be followed by taking into account the political, economic and social factors of the developments in the world, both the developments in the internal affairs of the important states in the relevant period, the relations between the states and the general structure of international politics will be discussed without neglecting the theoretical framework.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Reform, the process leading to the Treaty of Westphalia. The birth of Western dominance, capitalism, and the rise of nation-states.
2nd Week Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Results of the Revolution.
3rd Week Developments in France after the revolution, international reactions against the revolution.
4th Week The Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe
5th Week Industrial Revolution and ideologies that emerged in Europe
6th Week Unification of Italy, and Germany and the road to the World War I
7th Week The October Revolution and its effects on World War I
8th Week Mid-term Exam
9th Week 1919-1929 /1933-1939 End of peace, Results of WW II and World War II
10th Week Developments during the Cold War period
11th Week Cuban Missile Crisis and the Detente period
12th Week Developments in the Middle East (1950-1980)
13th Week The Afghan War
14th Week Collapse of the Soviet Union
Recommended or Required ReadingARMAOGLU, Fahir, 20. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi (1914-1995), cilt I-II, İstanbul, Alkım Yayınevi,
ARMAOGLU, Fahir, Filistin Meselesi ve Arap-İsrail Savaşları (1948-1988),
İstanbul, İş Bankası Yayınları, 1994
ARMAOGLU, Fahir, Siyasi Tarih 1789-1960, 3. bs., Ankara, Siyasal Bilgiler
Fakültesi Yayını, 1975
DERİNGİL, Selim, Denge Oyunu: İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nda Türkiye'nin Dış
Politikası, 2. bs., İstanbul, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2000
HOBSBAWM, Eric J., Devrim çağı 1789-1848, çev. Bahadır Sina Şener, Ankara, Dost Kitabevi, 1998
HOBSBA WM, Eric J., Sermaye çağı 1848-1875, çev. Bahadır Sina Şener, Ankara, Dost Kitabevi, 1998
HOBSBAWM, Eric J., İmparatorluk çağı 1875-1914, çev. Vedat Aslan, Ankara, Dost Kitabevi, 1999 (SBF)
HOBSBAWM, Eric J., Kısa 20. Yüzyıl 1914-1991: AşırılıkIar çağı, çev. Yavuz
Alogan, İstanbul, Sarmal Yayınevi, 1996
SANDER, Oral, Siyasi Tarih: 1918-1994, ciltlı, ll. bs., Ankara,'İmge Kitabevi, 2003
GORST, Anthony.The Suez Crisis, London ve New York, Routledge, 1997
GOTLIEB, Wolfram W., Studies in Secret Diplomacy During the First World War, London,1957.
GRAEBNER, Norman A. (der.), The Cold War: Ideological Conflict or Power
Struggle, Boston, Heath & Co., 1963 (SBF)
GRAEBNER, Norman A., Cold War Diplomacy, 1945-1960, Princeton, Van Nostrand & Co., 1962.
GRANT, A. J. ve Harold TEMPERLEY, Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1789-1939), London, Longmans Green and Co., 1939
R. R. Palmer, Joel Colton, and Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, 10th Edition, Boston, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Taylor, A. J. P., The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Hirschmann, E.Robert W.Strayer, R. B.Marks, The Making of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present, New York: St.Martin Press, 1989.
Stone, Norman. Europe Transformed: 1878-1919, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Chambers, Mortimer. The Western Experience, Boston, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
  • Presentation
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 7 30
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 2 2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 55 55
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 45 45
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework 7 14 98
Total Work Load300
Total Work Load / 30 (h)10
ECTS Credit of the Course10
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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