IR576 STATE IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM
| Course Code: | 3140576 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. PINAR BEDİRHANOĞLU TOKER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This seminar aims to provide the graduate students with a critical historical understanding on neoliberal state transformation within capitalist development. After a methodological and historical analysis on the formation of the capitalist state in its bourgeois democratic and national form until the 1980s, the seminar will scrutinise the social, economic and ideological bases of the ongoing transformations in the political field since then. In this regard, authoritarian implications of various global processes on the state will be discussed by focusing on the restructurings that have been taking place in the economic management, legal framework and coercive functions of states.
Course Content
This course aims to provide the graduate students with a critical historical understanding on the changes in the form of political authority in relation to the so-called globalisation process. After a methodological and historical analysis on the development of the modern state in its bourgeois democratic as well as national forms until the 1980s, the course will scrutinize the social, economic and ideological bases of the ongoing transformations in the political field since then from a political economy perspective. In this regard, possible implications of global processes on the state will be discussed by focusing on the restructurings that have been taking place in state-society relationship, economic management and legal framework with a particular emphasis on their impact on democracy and nationhood.
Course Learning Outcomes
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To enhance and deepen the scholarly knowledge in the discipline of International Relations | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To establish connections between different disciplines of social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To view social and international developments from a holistic perspective | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To establish advanced-level oral and written communication skills in both academic and practical spheres of life | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original ideas by developing habits of inquiry | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To obtain high-level research skills and ethics | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To have social sensitivity and moral responsibility | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To be able to express ideas and prepare effective presentations in academic and professional platforms | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To contribute to the scientific literature | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution