EUROCENTRISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

PSIR634

Course Code: PSIR634
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Erdem Damar

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Evaluate the transformative impact of non-state and informal social movements on the international system.
Comprehend that the global politics is not confined with the politics of states and state-oriented supranational institutions.
Analyze the relationship between social movements, state politics and international relations.
Analytically engage with the distinctive organizational and discursive formations of transnational social movements.
Critically evaluates the approaches that reduce international politics to institutional interactions.
Gain an ability and knowledge to characterize different themes (gender, religion, environment, energy, peace, human rights, etc.) and axes (local, national, regional, global, confrontational, assimilative, etc.) regarding the facilitation and operation of social movements in different parts of the world.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

The object of this course is to explain the transnational social movements as new actors that have emerged through the opportunities facilitated through globalization as well as their roles on influencing international politics. One of the main objectives of this course is to elaborate on various ways and strategies through which international relations, inter-state relations, and na-tional and regional politics have been partly shaped by means of organizations of non-state and non-state actors that transcend national borders. The first part of the course covers various social movement theories with a special emphasis on the political process model and new social movements theory. In that scope, the relations between globalization and the emergence of transnational social movements will be discussed. The differences between social movements and other non-governmental actors such as non-governmental organizations and pressure groups will also be explained. In the second part of the course, the organizational strategies and organizational dynamics of transnational social movements will be explained with an emphasis on their impacts on international relations and international politics. In the final part, the diversi-ties of the formations, organizations and political strategies of transnational social movements in the post1990 global context will be thematically covered. The impacts and results of transnation-al modes activisms on international politics will be covered by emphasizing on diaspora movements, environmental politics, religious and cultural activisms, human rights movements and anti-globalization movements.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction
2^nd Week	Social Movements (in a Global Age)
3^rd Week	International Order, International System, and International Politics
4^th Week	Social Movement Theories in the Global Age - I
5^th Week	Social Movement Theories in the Global Age - II
6^th Week	The Organizational Dynamics of Transnational Social Movements and their Impacts on International Politics
7^th Week	Transnational Social Movements and Framing Processes
8^th Week	Mid-term Exam
9^th Week	Transnational Social Movements, Activisms
10^th Week	Recent Issues in International Politics: Diaspora and Migration
11^th Week	Transnational Religious and Cultural Movements
12^th Week	Human Rights Movements
13^th Week	Environmental Movements
14^th Week	Anti-Globalization Movements

Recommended or Required Reading

Anthony M. Orum, and John G. Dale. Siyaset Sosyolojisi: Günümüz Dünyasında İktidar ve Katılım, Say Yayınları, İstanbul, 2019.
Asef Bayat, Activism and Social Development in the Middle East, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 34,1 (2002): 1-28.
Asef Bayat, Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islam-ic Activism in Iran and Egypt, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40,1 (1998): 136-169.
Claus Offe, New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics, Social Research, 52,4 (1985): 817-868.
Clifford Bob, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
David Naguib Pellow, Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007.
David S. Meyer, and Sidney Tarrow (eds.), The Social Movements Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Oxford, 1998.
David. A. Snow et. al. (eds.) Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements Blackwell Pub-lishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2019.
Donatella Della Porta, and Sydney Tarrow (eds.) Transnational Protest and Global Activism, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2005.
Donatella Della Porta, Andreta Massimillano, Lorenzo Mosca, and Herbert Reiter (eds.), Glob-alization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks, Pluto Press: Lon-don, 2006.
Donatella Della Porta, Haspeter Kriesi, and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Movements in a Global-ising World, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1999.
Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Uni-versity of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982.
Edward Newman, and Oliver Richmond (eds.), Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoil-ers During Conflict Resolution, United Nations Press, New York, 2006.
Eitan Y. Alimi, Constructing Political Opportunity: 1987 The Palestinian Year of Discon-tent, Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 11, 1 (2006): 67-80.
Eitan Y. Alimi, Mobilizing Under the Gun: Theorizing Political Opportunity Structure in a Highly Repressive Setting, Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 14,2 (2009): 219-237.
Eva Erman, and Anders Uhlin (eds.), Legitimacy Beyond the State Re-examining the Demo-cratic Credentials of Transnational Actors, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010.
Fiona B. Adamson, Crossing Borders: International Migration and National Security, Inter-national Security, 31,1 (2006): 165-199.
Fiona B. Adamson, Globalization, Transnational Political Mobilization, and Networks of Vio-lence, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 18,1 (2005): 35-53.
Fiona B. Adamson, and Madeleine Demetriou, `Remapping the Boundaries of State and `Na-tional Identity: Incorporating Diasporas into IR Theorizing, European Journal of Inter-national Relations, 13,4 (2007): 489-526.
Gabriel Sheffer (ed.), Modern Diasporas in International Politics, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986.
Gabriel Sheffer (ed.), Modern Diasporas in International Politics, Croom Helm, London, 1986.
Gerald F. David et. al. (eds.) Social Movements and Organization Theory, Cambridge Univer-sity Press, Cambridge, 2005.
Herbert P. Kitschelt, Political Opportunity Structure and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Move-ments in Four Democracies, British Journal of Political Science, 16,1 (1986): 57-85.
Hermann Maiba, Grassroots Transnational Social Movement Activism: The Case of Peoples Global Action, Sociological Focus, 38, 1 (2005): 41-63.
Hilary Cunningham, The Ethnography of Transnational Social Activism: Understanding the global as Local Practice, American Ethnologist, 26, 3 (2008): 583-604.
Jackie Smirth, Samantha Plummer, and Melanie M. Hughes, Transnational Social Movements and Changing Organizational Fields in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenthy-First Centu-ries, Global Networks, 17, 1 (2017): 3-22.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Assignment	5	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	6	84
Preparation for Final exam	1	50	50
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	45	45
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	5	15	75
Total Work Load			301
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.03
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

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