International Relationships

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The concept of international relations, politics and their actors in international arena, strategies, diplomacy, the balance of power, security issues, idealism and realism, pluralism, globalism, terrorism, normative and ampric theories, the factors that determine the foreign and international policy, power, political system, the decision making process, states' foreign policy strategies, isolationism, impartiality, nonaligment, policies on the balance of power and status quo, policy on imperialism and prestige are among the topics of this course.

Weekly Schedule

1) Meeting and Introduction
2) Conceptual and theoretical boundaries of international relations, politics and power.
3) State and sovereignty concepts, what is sovereignty, land, people and government? Nation and nationalism.
4) Differences between international relations, international politics and foreign policy, actors in international relations: nation-states, persons, non-governmental national actors, multinational corporations, international organizations, transnational groups and organizations.
5) Different international relations theories and methodologies: Idealism and realism.
6) Different international relations theories and methodologies: Large and medium-sized theories, behavioural and traditional theories, pluralism and globalism, normative and empirical theories.
7) Determinants effecting international relations and foreign policy: power, national power and capacity.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Decision-making process, factors effecting the process of decision-making, game theory
10) States' foreign policy strategies: isolation policy, neutrality, nonaligment policy, the balance of power and status quo policies, the policies of imperialism and the prestige,alliance policy
11) Diplomacy, diplomatic representative offices, diplomatic immunities and exemptions, diplomatic negotiations, diplomatic sanctions, propaganda
12) International economic relations, economic and political sanctions, the foreign policy tools and methods, conflict and war, war types
13) Security issues in international relations, terrorism and WMD arms, arms race, the issue of nuclear weapons, disarmament problems.
14) Turkish foreign policy: diplomacy of independence struggle, The Armenian issue, Turkish foreign policy until World War II. Turkish foreign policy since World War II. Cold War, NATO, the hashash issue, The missiles crisis, the Cyprus crisis and the Johnson Letter, 1974 Operation in Cyprus, Turkey - EU relations, Turkey - U.S. Relations
15) International political systems: one-pole system, the balance of power system, two-pole system, two-pole system, the structure of the New World Order
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Heywood, Andrew; Küresel Siyaset, BB101 Yayınevi, 2018.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Simulation
5) Case Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	20%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	80%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required