PSIR554
TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
- Course Code
- PSIR554
- Semester
- Second Term (Spring)
- Theory+Practice
- 3 + 0
- ECTS
- 10
| Course Type | Compulsory Course | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course Level | Master's Degree Without Thesis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year of Study | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Semester | Second Term (Spring) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ECTS | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recommended Optional Programme Components | No recommended optional program components. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Description | This course aims to study the political, geographical and economic foundations on which the Turkish foreign policy is based on, the mechanisms of decision-making in foreign policy and the acts of foreign policy since the foundation of the Republic. Turkey's policies regarding international and regional developments and the impacts of the factors of continuity and change over these policies are among the topics that will be covered. The course also aims to point to the general tendencies of Turkey in foreign relations. At the end of this course, students are expected to know the general framework of Turkey's international relations history, to have the adequate knowledge about different comments on the various foreign policy issues that Turkey encounters and present their own interpretations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy (1774-2000) (London: Frank Cass, 2000). Lenore Martin and Dimitris Keridis (eds.), The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004). Malik Mufti, Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: The Republic at Sea (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Ali Çarkoğlu and Barry Rubin (eds.), Turkey and the European Union (London: Frank Cass, 2005). Joseph S. Joseph (ed.), Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Papers and Book Chapters J. David Singer, "The Level of Analysis Problem in International Relations," in G. John Ikenberry (ed.), American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (Glenview, IL, 2008), pp. 67-80. Charles F. Hermann, "Changing Course: When Governments Choose to Redirect Foreign Policy," International Studies Quarterly 34, no. 1 (March 1990): 3-21. Gencer Özcan, "Facing its Waterloo in Diplomacy: Turkey's Military in the Foreign Policy Making Process," New Perspectives on Turkey (Spring 2009): 83-102. M. Fatih Tayfur and Korel Göymen, "Decision-Making in Turkish Foreign Policy: The Caspian Oil Pipeline Issue," Middle Eastern Studies 38, no. 2 (April 2002): 101-122. Baris Kesgin and Juliet Kaarbo, "When and How Parliaments Influence Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey's Iraq Decision," International Studies Perspectives 11, no. 1 (February 2010): 19-36. Roderick Davison, "Ottoman Diplomacy and Its Legacy," in Roderick Davison (ed.), Nineteenth Century Ottoman Diplomacy and Reforms (Istanbul: ISIS Press, 1999), pp. 329-332. Roderick Davison, "Turkish Diplomacy from Mudros to Lausanne," in The Struggle for New Position, pp. 172-209. Nevin Coşar and Sevtap Demirci, "The Mosul Question and the Turkish Republic: Before and After the Frontier Treaty, 1926," The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations No. XXXV (2004): 181-189. Yücel Güçlü, The Question of the Sanjak of Alexandretta: A Study of in Turkish-French-Syrian Relations (Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, 2001). Nur Bilge Criss, "Turkish Foreign Policy and the West (1946-1999),"in Erik Zurcher (ed.), Turkey in the Twentieth Century (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2008), pp. 568-585. Alan Makovsky, "The New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy," SAIS Review 19, no. 1 (Winter-Spring 1999): 92-113. Banu Eligür, "Turkish-American Relations Since the 2003 Iraqi War: A Troubled Partnership," Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Middle East Brief 6 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Crown Center for Middle East Studies, May 2006). Sabri Sayarı, "Turkish-American Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Issues of Convergence and Divergence," in Mustafa Aydın and Çağrı Erhan (eds.), Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present, and Future (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 91-106. Duygu Bazoğlu Sezer, "Turkey and the European Idea," NATO's Sixteen Nations 4 (1993): 83-87. Meltem Müftüler-Baç, "The Never-Ending Story: Turkey and the European Union," Middle Eastern Studies 34, no. 4 (October 1998): 240-258. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Work Placement(s) | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes
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| K1 | X | ||
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| K4 | X | X | |
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| K6 | X | X | X |
| K7 | X | ||
| K8 | X |