GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGY

PSIR569

Course Code: PSIR569
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Hasan Ünal

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Develop a different perspective and question current events with a different view.
Learn to make long-term analysis.
Analyze current events with the newly leant theories.
Evaluate critically the fight for resources.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

No recommended optional programme components.

Course Description

This course, aims to deal with the impacts of geography on political relations globally and domestically. To do this, special focus will be on geographical factors, geographical dimensions of political disagreements and impacts of globalization on current global and regional politics. The course, which is based on political and geographical concepts, focuses on current topics in local, regional, national and global scope. The world economy that is under the dominance of the West geographically, geopolitical world, power, the inter-state competition models, states and the foundations of the sovereignty of nations are the content of this course.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	International Relations Theories: Realism, Liberalism
2^nd Week	Classical Geopolitical Thinking
3^rd Week	Geopolitics Methodology and Strategy
4^th Week	Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War I: The End of Old Enmities
5^th Week	Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War II: The United States of America and the Soviet Union - The Making of Super Powers
6^th Week	Geopolitical Transformation After the Second World War III: The Growth and Decline of Powers: The Soviet Union as an Example
7^th Week	Geopolitics and Strategy after the End of the Cold War: The Gliding of Power from West To East?
8^th Week	USA - Hegemon? Or Real Power Looser?
9^th Week	Russia - From Lost Power to New Wealth?
10^th Week	China - Growing Power?
11^th Week	Ressource Wars
12^th Week	Energy Security vs. Demografic Transition, Environmental Problems and Climate Change
13^th Week	Today's Geopolitcs and Strategyi: Common Security - UN and NATO's Role in Conflict Resolution
14^th Week	Multilateralism and Cooperation - For Human, National, Regional and Global Security

Recommended or Required Reading

Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Basic Books, 1998.
Michael T. Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, 2009.
Klaus Dodds: Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Saul Bernard Cohen: Geopolitics: the Geography of International Relations Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
Daniel Yergin: The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power, Free Press, 1993.
Felix Gilbert: Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War, 1986.
Paret, Peter (Ed.): Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age. Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J., 1986.
Colin Flint: Introduction to Geopolitics, Routledge NY, 2006.
William K. Tabb: Resource Wars, Monthly Review, January 2007, Vol. 58, No1.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Presentation
Other

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	40
Project	1	30
Total(%)		70
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		70
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		30
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	4	56
Preparation for Final exam	1	52	52
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	3	35	105
Project	1	50	50
Total Work Load			308
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4
K1	X		X
K2		X
K3		X
K4				X
K5
K6	X	X	X	X
K7			X	X
K8	X	X