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The course examines the rise and fall of great powers as political, military and economic entities, with reference to economic and political relations of large states like the Ottoman Empire, France, Great Britain, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Prussia as well as the two great powers, the United States and Russia, within the framework of European Balance of Power and the traditional isolationist foreign policy of the U.S. in the last century. The course includes an analysis of the World War I.

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This course intends to examine the developments in Europe and U.S. since 1919 until today, dealing with World War I and the new political structure after 1918, World War II and the involvement of the U.S. in European affairs, Cold War, Sovietization of Eastern Europe and the emancipation of the Third World countries, and relations between industrial and non-industrial countries in political, economic and military fields with respect to global developments.

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The basic purpose of this course is to introduce the students to the history of civilizations through a comparative perspective. The course starts with a conceptual analysis of the term civilization and deals with the basic questions in definition and civilizing process. Its departing point is that there is a common human civilizing process and also a plurality of human civilizations.

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The aim of this course is to acquaint students with classical political thought extending from Plato to Nietzsche through an analysis of the political thought of selected scholars along with their contributions to international relations. To contribute to a deeper understanding of political thought and its significance for International Relations, the course undertakes both textual and contextual analysis, addressing not only the texts but the social context in which they have been situated.

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United Nations is the leading institiution that has been shaping and framing international
environmental politics through various tools and means. Currently the primary basis of
international environmental cooperation relies on environmental treaties that reached
to a significant number and variety in scope. Due to limitations of state centered
governance models, public-private partnerships were developed as new mode of
environmental governance to address environmental challenges timely and efficiently.
This course is intended to explore and identify the role of the United Nations bodies, the
function of environmental treaty regimes and potential of environmental partnerships
within the context of various environmental challenges.

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This course is offered to students from other departments as a non-technical elective. The main purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts and a general understanding of the international relations discipline.

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The course intends to outline administrative structure of the Ottoman Empire and concentrates on the Tanzimat Reforms, the intellectual discussions of the time; the Ottomanism, Islamism and Turkism. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the nation states in the place of the Ottoman Empire are discussed. The double revolution; the National Liberation Movement of 1919-1923 and the establishment of republican regime, the Izmir economic Congress and the following economic policies of the republican regime are looked through. Intellectuals of the time, such as Ziya Gökalp, Yusuf Akçura, Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Ahmet Hamdi Başar and the Kadro Movement, and their arguments regarding economic development policies as well as nationalism, are included among the topics. As to the foreign policy of the republican regime, the territorial settlements of the period from 1919 to 1923, the Mosul Question, the straits Question, the foreign policy approach of the republican regime, with particular references to the Balkan Pact of 1934 and the Sadabad Pact of 1937, are examined.

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This course will introduce students to the major concepts, approaches, actors and issues in peace and conflict studies.

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The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of research methods in the social sciences, with special emphasis on research methods in International Relations. The course has the twofold aim of acquainting students with epistemological issues in the conduct of research in the social sciences, while also providing students with practical research skills ,including research design, data collection and analysis, and use of library resources.

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Global order has changed with the end of the Cold War. The old defining struggle between a capitalist West and a communist East has passed. Since then, some key policy discussions led by the North have linked national and international security to questions about potential future dangers of social and political disruptions resulting from environment degradation and economic underdevelopment in the South. Once again the world is divided into the North and the South, with the North making decisions to maintain global political and economic status quo –inadequate distribution of natural resources and wealth- and safeguarding security, and the South being managed without its consent. This course aims to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of the North-South relations from the perspective of environment, development and security.

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The course is intended to provide a historical and policy-based perspective on the relationship between the US and Europe. It adopts a historical perspective, beginning from the 19th century onwards, so as to introduce students to the complexity of the US – Europe relationship and highlight the continuity and changes manifested in this relationship through successive stages in the field of international politics. To do so, the course will touch upon vital aspects of the US – Europe relationship be looking at the political, economic and cultural dimensions of the transatlantic partnership. There is a strong comparative element running through all week´s topics.

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This course analyses the behavior of states within the framework of the international system. The main purpose of the course is to equip students with the analytical tools which contribute to their understanding of the changing context of international politics. In addition, the course is basic for the more specialized courses offered in the third and fourth years.

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Continuation of IR 231.

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This course is intended to provide an introductory examination of the subject of foreign policy analysis. In this general context, the nature, scope and definition of foreign policy; the impact of main theories and methods of international relations on foreign policy studies; and various approaches and methods to the study of foreign policy will be covered in the lectures.

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This course is intended to provide an introductory examination of the subject of International Political Economy (IPE). In this context, first, the basic concepts and issues of international economics; and second, the development of thought about the relationship between international politics and international economics is covered in the lectures and discussion. Syllabus: Issues of Political Economy; Mercantalism; Liberalism; Marxism; the dynamics of IPE; World Economy vs. International Economy; Power in the World Economy; Structures of Power in the World Economy: the security structure, the production structure, financial structure, knowledge structure.

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This course is about the origins of human rights. It traces the roots of universal human rights as formulated by the
covenants and conventions of the 20th century in different ideas, cultures, and civilizations. While underlining the
plurality of human experience, and particularities of different ideas, cultures, and civilizations this course explains how
these all eventually culminated in internationally recognized UN documents on human rights. In so doing, this course
explores the idea of rights, individual protection, liberty, and social welfare in the ancient world, major religious
traditions, and the enlightenment and industrial revolution. The emergence of civil and political rights, economic and
social rights, and the right to self-determination are explored in a historical context. The origins of humanitarian
intervention in the just war theory and the emergence of humanitarian law with regard to slavery and warfare are also
covered. This course is concluded with a general evaluation of how different historical experiences, traditions, and
ideas have contributed to the contemporary approaches, institutions, and practice of human rights.

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The aim of this course if to give students a solid understanding of the European idea, and of the key concepts which form the basis of European integration. The course combines linear, institutional and policy-based approaches.

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The aim of this course is to examine the international and inter-regional relations of the Middle East through the prism of social history and, focusing on global themes such as urbanization, poverty and consumption, to consider the internal dynamics of Middle Eastern societies and the impact on them of extra-regional factors. The course will cover the period from the late eighteenth century to the early 1980s. The themes will be examined using specific case studies from selected countries and comparisons will be made between the experiences of different countries in the region. The students will be provided with primary material in translation and films made by Middle Eastern film makers will be shown.

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The aim of this course is to examine and understand the Ottoman Empire through its relations with different regions, such as Europe and the Indian Ocean, different states such as that of the Mamluks and Russia, and different ethnic and religious groups within its own territories such as the Greeks and the Shiites. Primary historical sources on the Ottoman Empire, such as Ottoman, Greek, Italian, French and English chronicles, travel accounts and published archival documents, will be given in translation. The students will thus able tu acquaint themselves with different historical sources and further develop their understanding of the Ottoman Empire.

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This course aims to develop a critical understanding on the changes in global political economy since the late 1970s. After a brief introductory discussion on state-market relationship and pre-1970 developments, the course will examine the reasons of the rise of neoliberalism, its dominance in economic policy-making since the 1980s, its implementation through different processes as well as its limits and contradictions with particular emphasis on the question of the changing role of state in the neoliberal era.

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An introductory course, dealing with sources of international law, states, individuals, recognition, international agreements, international responsibilities of states, peaceful settlement of international disputes, theory and reality in modern law of war, coercive measures, laws of land and serial warfare, laws of maritime warfare, enemy persons and property within belligerent states, neutral states, termination of war.

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Continuation of IR 305.

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The topics covered in the course are: History of the Balkans, the territorial settlement of 1919-1923, revisionism in the Balkans, characteristics features of the regimes during the period between the two World Wars, the establishment of communist regimes in the 1940s and their subsequent collapse in 1989-1990 period. International and domestic problems faced by the Balkan states during the transitional period are examined, with emphasis on current `hot` issues in the Balkans.

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After a brief introduction to the different methodological approaches in the field of international political economy so as to highlight the alternative conceptualizations of the state-market relationships, the course will undertake a comparative analysis of alternative strategies of capitalist development and/or modes of integration into the world economy with special reference to Latin America, South and Asia, Africa, and the newly emerging market economies of the former centrally-planned economies.

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This course examines the theoretical frameworks, problems associated with researching conflict and violence. Also, different issue areas that cause or exacerbate conflict, including state interests, territory, sovereignty, development, resources, identity, culture, ethnicity and representation will be discussed. Other foci of the course include the different actors involved, the different strategies used to continue the conflict, the resources required for conflicts, the success or failure of the various approaches that have emerged for addressing the conflict. During the course, students will engage in a detailed case study of their own, such Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, the Congo, Cambodia and Rwanda.

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This course examines the evolution of international organizations in relation to the developments in the international system, undertaking a comparative study between the various pacts and systems prior to the foundation of the League of Nations, the League of Nations and the United Nations system. The course addresses the relevant international organizations of the post-World War II period and the post-Cold War international system.

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This course examines the range of security threats that the international community faces at the beginning of the new millennium and discusses, both at the level of discourse and the level of practice, how the international community is responding to the persistence of such threats as nuclear proliferation and terrorism and the emergence of new ones such as chemical and biological warfare, pandemics and mass migration. Special emphasis will be placed on comparing and contrasting traditional security paradigm with newly emerging ones, as well as their complex interaction.

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Foreign policy has conventionally been understood as detached from the domestic policy environment. This is derived from the realist assumption that there exists a clear demarcation line between the domestic and the international. Yet this assumption has been questioned by theoretical analysis as well as practical developments in recent years. This course aims at elaborating domestic sources of foreign policy making in the context of Turkish politics. It is based on the hypothesis that an `interactional` approach better serves to the understanding of both Turkish domestic politics and Turkish foreign policy. Thus the course will explain domestic sources of foreign policy issues, like democratization, human rights, the Kurdish question, the role of the military in Turkish politics etc.

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The purpose of this course is to provide students with a general understanding of the role of the EU in wider European and international arenas. The course is divided into three sections. First, various attempts to develop a European foreign policy are traced, beginning with the creation of EPC in 1970, culminating in the EU`s CFSP as laid down in the Treaty on the EU. Secondly, alternative approaches for understanding the EU`s foreign policy behavior are presented. Against this theoretical background, the Union`s relations with the rest of Europe, with the developing countries and with the US are examined.

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The course is designed as an undergraduate level interdisciplinary introduction to the states and societies of the contemporary Central Asia. Fundamentally, the course aims to shed light on the post-Soviet developments in the region by a critical reading of the politics, economy, society and culture of Central Asia since Russian colonization. The organization of the course includes two parts. The first part aims to familiarize the student with socio-political and cultural transformations experienced by the people of Central Asia under the colonial rule of tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Then the course proceeds to discuss major issue areas that have been taking shape in the post –Soviet Central Asia and dominating the scholarly debates in the field of Central Asian Studies. The course will consist of lectures, reading assignments, class discussions and film representations. No special knowledge of the region on the part of students is presumed.

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The course aims to introduce the students to empirical political research methods and to basic statistical techniques, resources and concepts. It aims to develop skills in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of research findings, including standards for written research reports. The course will encourage the students to gain an awareness of the real nature of research and the means of collecting information, and to report findings.
The course will cover a wide range of subjects and authors, but particular attention will be devoted to the nature of research methodology in social sciences, and mainly in the study of international relations. The course will mainly stress quantitative research design. The course aims at providing the students with necessary knowledge and skills for planning, designing, carrying out, interpreting and presenting their own research at any level – a term paper, a dissertation or more advanced levels such as articles or theses.

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This undergraduate course seeks to examine the key aspects of modern diplomacy by exploring its key concepts, institutions and forms in global politics. The course starts with an examination of diplomacy as a concept and its historical evolution. Next,it introduces the organization of diplomatic service in modern states as well as the functions of diplomats in contemporary world politics. Afterwards, it explores the types of diplomatic correspondence as well as diplomatic methods in bilateral and multilateral platforms. The course concludes by examining specialized forms of diplomacy in security, finance, trade, energy, environment, cyber and science.

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The objective of this course is to provide students with an analytical understanding of the various issues of politics of international migration. The first part examines the theories and approaches on international migration. The second part examines post war developments in respect of international migrations including economic migrants and political refugees and specifically focuses on European immigration policies.

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This course intends to provide the student with an understanding of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean (including theoretical and conceptual approaches). Case studies: Greece and Spain. Economic Environment: economic development patterns; characteristics of the economic elites; state as an actor in the economy; the role of foreign economic aid and foreign investment. Political Environment: the nature of the political establishment; authoritarianism; democratization; the role of individual leaders. External Environment: supportive and reactionary responses in the international system (intervention, solidarity, etc); foreign policy behavior; the role of the USA, EEC/EC/EU and USSR/Russia.

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The course aims to identify and analyze various factors contributing to Turkish Foreign Policy orientation. While the main focus of this course is the political dynamics and issues of Turkish foreign policy after World War II\the problems and determinants of Turkish foreign policy between 1919-1945, with reference to past experiences and geopolitical imperatives placing certain constraints on the state`s decision makers, will also be briefly discussed.

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Continuation of IR 401.

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The purpose of the course is to inform students about the Turkish system of Private International Law. The course addresses the Law of Nationality and the Status of Aliens. The former deals with the legal rules governing the acquisition, loss and proof of nationality and the resolution of conflicts of nationality. The latter comprises the legal principles and rules that determine the rights and duties of foreigners who reside on the territory of a state.

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The concept `Diaspora` has come a long way from its classical use and gained broader implications as an increasingly important non-state actor within the post-cold war context. This course aims to provide students with an analytical understanding of the role of diasporas, homelands, and host states with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of domestic and international politics. The course will also focus on the ethnic return migrations as the resulting phenomenon of the diaspora politics. The course will be held in the form of lectures and class discussions.

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This course aims at studying contemporary scholarship concerning security with a focus on the transformation that took place particularly after the end of the Cold War. Critical approaches to international security and new conceptual tools will be explored. In addition, the wider security agenda which draws attention to new sources of insecurity and new referent objects of security will be critically interrogated.

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This undergraduate course seeks to explore the process of negotiation as a social practice and the characteristics of international negotiations as well as the major issues involved in the conduct of international negotiation in security, economic, energy and environmental issue-areas. The first part of the course deals with the key aspects of international negotiation including framing and planning of negotiations, strategies of distributive and integrative negotiations, contextual and skills-related aspects of negotiations and the ethical issues in negotiation. The second part examines the following specific issues in international negotiation: international variations in negotiation styles and inter-cultural communication as well as the roles of third party involvement and mediation in overcoming the barriers to internationally negotiated settlements. The final part is designed to enable each student to take active part in simulations on international negotiations in specific security, economic, energy and environmental issue-areas.

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This is an introductory course to the EU. This course aims to give an overall understanding on the fundamentals and the dynamics of institutions, policies and law of the European Union. The target audience for this course are the students who do not have prior knowledge on the functioning of the EU and who are not familiar with any of the social science disciplines. By the end of this course, the student is expected to gain an understanding of the functioning, policies and institutions of the EU. Overall, the course aims to give a general introduction to the institutions and policies of the European Union.

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This course is designed as a general introduction to the process of European integration and the politics of the European Union (EU). The course consists of three parts: Part One traces the history of European integration from the end of the WWII through 2002. To facilitate different interpretations of the EU in the making, part one also reviews the main academic debates about European integration and about the Union. Part Two looks at the institutional politics of the EU including a detailed analysis of the formal and informal aspects of EU governance. Part Three discusses the main policy areas ranging from agriculture to EMU. On the basis of the findings drawn from the theory and practice of European integration, the course address the relationship of the post-1995 enlargement with the challenge of deepening of the EU and seeks an answer to the question of what the future European integration may hold.

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This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of revolutions in modern world history in order to evaluate their importance in the making of states, societies and modern political forms and norms in different parts of the world. The first part of the course aims to make a historical overview of some selected revolutions in world history from the 17th century to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 by problematizing their historically specific domestic as well as global reasons and implications. The second part of the course problematize the revolutionary popular uprisings in different countries/regions since 1989.

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The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the basic characteristics of modern French history, politics and society. The course covers the evolution of modern France from the French revolution to the present day. Issues such as political institutions, economy, nationalism, state-religion relationship, immigration and foreign policy are addressed from a comparative perspective.

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This course aims to introduce exchange students at METU to the main characteristics of contemporary Turkish politics, policies and society by offering the chance to explore actors and institutions involved. In this light, the objective is to help students contextualize and deepen their knowledge on Turkey. By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to demonstrate knowledge of Turkish politics, policies and society and to identify international and domestic factors behind change and continuity in Turkey.

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This course aims at familiarising the students with the key debates that have shaped the EU
and the recent crises that are reshaping the EU policy process, polity and politics, both
empirically and theoretically. By the end of this course, students should be able to analyse
critically the transformation of the practice and theory of European integration process since
the 1990s, the key features of the Euro-polity and an understanding of how have the multiple
crises influenced the European integration process and the future of Europe

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The course aims to introduce students to the domestic political and socioeconomic processes of the Middle East countries, including the Arab States, Iran and Israel. Emphasis is placed on decolonization, state formation, evolution of the political systems, socioeconomic developments, impact of the military, crisis of legitimacy, social movements, ideology and recent attempts at economic and political reform.

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The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic theme, principles, and the implementation of the American postwar security policies. An assessment of the containment policies of the US policy-makers towards the Soviet Union will be given a special emphasis. The course is designed to enable students to understand properly the post cold-war period in US foreign policy and its implications for the world peace and order.

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The course content includes: The foreign policy of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler; the emergence of the FRG and GDR; the rearmament of FRG and NATO membership; new orientation in foreign policy of the Adenauer Government (1949-1963); `Ostpolitik` of the FRG during the Grand Coalition (1968-1974); foreign policy under Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982); relations between FRG and GDR; changes in foreign policy under Helmut Kohl and German Unification.

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This course is offered to those students having a higher academic average with the aim of helping them to further specialize in the certain issues and topics of international relations and to conduct research under the guidance of an instructor. (Offered as IR 434 in the Spring term).

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This course offers a systematic and comprehensive survey of contending classical and contemporary, traditional and behavioral theories of international relations.

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The module is designed to provide an insight to European welfare and social policy, and identity the main patterns that led to its creation and evolution after the Second World War. The first part (6 weeks) focuses on the interplay between national social policy and welfare politics. After defining social policy and the notion of welfare, it goes on to analyze the link between social welfare and the ‘models of capitalism’ literature. It thus examines the principles underpinning the Continental, Anglo-Saxon, Southern Nordic and East European social policy regimes.
The second part (3 weeks) is devoted to an examination of European Social Policy. It delineates its growth by examining the EU Cohesion Policy and the SEA, before discussing the European Social Dialogue and the role of the social partners.The final part (3 weeks) combines the national and pan-European elements of social welfare, discussing the challenges they face in an era of globalization.

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As the repercussions of human rights violations become increasingly difficult to contain within national boundaries, human rights has emerged as a subject of interest for students of international politics. The course analyzes the state of and the impact of human rights on international relations, and addresses the following: Globalization, the international order and human rights, international organizations and human rights, security implications, ethnic conflicts and refugee flows.

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The international interventions in the 19th and 20th centuries are examined to show the formation and redefinition of hegemonic projects as well as emergence of counter-hegemonic projects. This is to provide a better ground to discern continuity and change of the discourses and rhetoric of international interventions from 19th century to today. The international interventions since the end of the Cold War are to be examined taking the following cases samples: Iraq (1990), Bosnia-Herzegovina(OHR), Somalia (UNOSOM), Kosovo (UNMIK), Afghanistan (ISAF), Liberia, Congo, Ethiopia/Eritrea, East Timor, Iraq (2003) and the likelihood. The unilateral and multilateral interventions as well as ´assertive multilateral´ interventions are to be specifically discussed with particular reference to different schools of thoughts.

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This course provides an insight to British Foreign Policy. Spanning the period from the spread of the British Empire to the present day, this module seeks to offer an overview of British foreign policy by concentrating on: a) the major actors involved b) the institutional and historical context of decision-making and c) the relationship between domestic political factors and foreign policy initiatives/decisions. Particular emphasis will be placed on the period after 1945. The module covers six thematic issues: 1) The Rise and Decline of the British Empire 2) Decolonization and Its Aftermath 3) Anglo-American Relations 4) Britain in Europe 5) Defense and Security Policy 6) Foreign Policy and Domestic Factors. Two weeks´ lectures will be devoted to each thematic issue. Efforts will be made to allocate time for debate at the end of each lecture-student participation is strongly encouraged.

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This course aims at elaborating domestic sources of foreign policy making in the context of Turkish politics. It is based on the hypothesis that an interactional approach better serves to the understanding of both Turkish domestic politics and Turkish foreign policy.

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This course provides an examination of the discipline of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and to make
students “how to think” about foreign policy pheomena and “how to analyse” foreign polices of
individual states, and actors in the field. Accordingly this course intends to provide a background about
the field and then develop the necessary skills to understand and critically analyse the complex interaction
between foreign policy and international relations, domestic/external environments, leaders, statesmen,
bureaucracy, history, decision and policy making, foreign policy implementation, culture, media, public
opinion, etc., and to assess the current issues and developments in foreign policy environment.

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This course is designed for students interested in the contemporary problems of Central Asia and Azerbaijan. Although there are no prerequisite, it is expected that the students have had some exposive to the 20th century developments in the region.

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This course concentrates on the distinctive characteristics and functioning of the European Community`s legal order. It aims to provide an introduction to this sui generis system of law regarding the establishment, sources and organizational characteristics of the European Integration. In this context, special emphasis is given to the role of law as a tool for integration within the European Integration Movement. The development of the European Integration as regards deepening and widening are discussed while focusing on the present stage of enlargement. To provide a general approach towards the principles, policies, actions and strategies of the European Community including the four principles of free movement is also amongst the principle aims of this course.

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The basic purpose of this course is to give the students a general understanding of Ottoman diplomacy through the relations between Ottoman Empire and the European states. It takes the concepts of `diplomacy` and `states-systems` as basic tools and first dwells on the beginnings of Ottoman diplomacy and the European states-systems. Secondly, it deals with the ad loc diplomacy period and the establishment of permanent diplomacy. Thirdly, the practice of Ottoman diplomacy in foreign capitals is studies. The course will conclude with a discussion of the legacy of Ottoman diplomacy.

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This course aims to introduce students to theoretical approaches and concepts used to analyse European foreign policy. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with different theoretical approaches and concepts on international relations of Europe. They will have the knowledge and skills to use theories and critically analyse not only European foreign policy but also other actors’ foreign policies.

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The course offers instructions on the uses of theory in manufacturing knowledge, with emphasis on the study of international politics. What is a theory? What does it do? Do we have to use a theory in making sense of inter-state politics? Following three introductory sessions on theory generally, from an interdisciplinary angle (from natural sciences to literary criticism), the course focuses on the mainstream of IR theory, depicting the function of theory in research: political realisms, liberal idealisms, constructivisms.

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The main purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the environmental issues and the legal dynamics of the response given by the humanity to this problem either at regional or global levels. Concerning the question of efficiency and adequacy of the international regulatory processes in prevention and restitution of environmental problems, the underlying concepts, principles and techniques, the role of international, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the methods of enforcement, the application of the reformulated doctrine of state responsibility and liability will be discussed within the context of existing international structures.

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One of the most pressing issues of the new millenium will be the management of limited freshwater resources in the world as they are becoming more and more scare. Since an important number of these resources in the Middle East are transboundary rivers, the complexity of the problem increased as it became an issue at the international level. As a result, water has become a strategic asset since the early 1990s. Against this background, the course is considered in mainly four parts with a view to elaborate on the causes of conflict as well as on the prospects for cooperation over transboundary water resources in the Middle East, where special attention will be paid to the situation in the Euphrates-Tigris river basin.

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This undergraduate course intends to explore the dynamics of Russian foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Emphasizing the ambivalent position of Russia between the Eastern and the Western Worlds, the course evaluates the impact of post-Soviet transition process on the foreign policy orientation of Russia. The first part of the course deals mainly with the Soviet foreign policy, forming the historical background of the contemporary Russian foreign policy. This is followed by a discussion of the basic principles of the contemporary Russian foreign policy with reference to the major issue-areas.

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The course will consist of lectures concerning the sociological aspects of international relations. It will attempt to provide a sociological perspective and interpretation to the main controversies prevalent in international relations (theory). The main theme of the course is the necessity to develop a sociological perspective to international relations. This implies the analysis of the relation between social relations and other social forms such as the state, the state system, power and law. Therefore, an analysis of the relation between social relations, social forms and its implications for the theory of international relations will be discussed. It will also be demonstrated through out the course that a sociological perspective to the prevalent disputes of realism/neorealism, idealism and some interpretations of theories of globalization.

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This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of state-finance relations since the 19th century with a particular focus on the post-1980 developments. After a methodological and theoretical discussion underlining the constitution of money by social relations, the course will problematize the monetary and financial developments in capitalism in relation to changing class dynamics, global hegemonic powers, international monetary orders, the international organization of credit and global financial crises.

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This course is designed to enable students to understand properly the political, economic, foreign policy and security issues that influence the relations between Turkey and the EC/EU. The course content includes an analysis of the normative structure of the EU-Turkey relations; major breakthroughs in Turkey-EC/EU relations; the impact of EC/EU`s developments on its relations with Turkey; the role of EC/EU bodies such as the Commission; the Council of Ministers and the European Court of Justice on Turkey`s relations with the EC/EU; the influence of the Mediterranean policy of the EC/EU on Turkey. Furthermore, the recent developments will be examined to project the future of relations between Turkey and the EU.

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This course is designed to introduce students to regionalism in the Global South. It focuses on various factors, mainly historical, geopolitical, economic, and cultural that have influenced the development of regionalism in different parts of the world. In the light of theoretical discussions of regionalism, the course will compare and contrast the dynamic processes of regionalism in the world and how various regional groupings address different issues.

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The purpose of this course is to provide students with a general understanding of the role of the EU in wider European and international arenas. The course is divided into three sections.
First, various attempts to develop a European foreign policy are traced, beginning with the creation of EPC in 1970, culminating in the EU s CFSP as laid down in the Treaty on the EU. Secondly, alternative approaches for understanding the EU s foreign policy behavior are presented. Against this theoretical background, the Union s relations with the rest of Europe, with the developing countries and with the US are examined.

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This course aims to give an overall understanding on the Fundamentals and the Dynamics of institutions and law of the European Union. By the end of this course the student is expected to gain an understanding of EU institutions, their functioning and inter-institutional dynamics. The course also aims to give an overall understading on the principles and functioning of the EC law. Overall, the course aims to give a general introduction to the institutions and the law of the European Union.

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The purpose of this course is to introduce and analyze a wide range of issues that are central to the politics of international aid. Drawing on the historical record and more recent case studies, students will develop an in-depth understanding of the main actors, mechanisms, and dilemmas in the contemporary aid system; how foreign aid and development policy theories are constructed and used. We will examine the role of international and local politics on the provision of international aid not only from the perspective of donor countries, but also from the standpoint of recipient countries.
This course is intended to facilitate students to acquire knowledge and think critically about origins, evolution and forms of foreign assistance; the types of donors involved and their various motivations; the determinants, allocation, impact, and effectiveness of aid; aid delivery in humanitarian crises, conflict and post-conflict situations; the debates and criticisms surrounding specific policy initiatives; and the changing role of aid in international relations since 9/11.

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International relations is often understood as the study of politics premised on inter-governmental relations. Therefore, mainstream theoretical accounts tend to privilege interaction among states as the paramount, if not only or exclusive, site of thematization. As a result, the global context is reduced in mainstream treatments to security, diplomacy and aspects of inter-governmental association. This course, seeking to remedy this gap, probes into the trans-national, trans-local, inter-ethnic traces and bonds in the wider global context through an exploration of various themes in the disciplines other than IR.

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This course is designed for the undergraduate students who are interested in learning Turkey’s role in international politics of energy. The course deals with the approaches to and characteristics of international politics of energy as well as Turkey’s energy strategy in a wider international context. The course also covers Turkey’s production and consumption of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and renewable forms of energy. Besides, the course explores Turkey’s energy cooperation with the United States, the European Union and Russia as well as international politics of energy in the following neighbouring regions of Turkey: The Caspian, the Black Sea, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

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The course will have an historical approach, dealing with the history of the Europeanisation of football through commpetitions and football s collective memory, with a focus on football as producer of national and transnational media events and its symbolic dimension and impact; a socio-anthropological approoach, dealing with issues of identity dynamics and perception patterns as experienced and expressed through football, with a special focus on Nationalism; and with a cocio-political dimension. exploring the emergence of a European public space applying the concept of European public space/public shere to the football community into mainstream discourse; as well as the concept of stakeholder empowerment. with a special focus on the perception of football governence and the European model of sport.

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This undergraduate course seeks to examine the key aspects of countering radicalization, terrorism and hybrid warfare in global politics. In the theoretical part of the couse, the concepts of radicalization, terrorism and hybrid warfare are explained from three major theoretical perspectives: political realist, liberal and critical theories of international relations. Next, the course introduces the existing strategies of countering radicalization, terrorism and hybrid warfare at the policy-making level. In the final empirical part, the course deals with the case-studies of countering radicalization, terrorism and hybrid warfare in the Middle East, Eurasia, Asia, Africa as well as Western countries.

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This course provides an analysis of the three important theoretical debates of international relations: Idealism vs Realism, Traditionalism vs Behaviouralism, and Realism vs Neo-realism. The course also addresses the level of analysis problem, as well as the central assumptions and key concepts of various theories of international relations, with special emphasis on the basic concepts, propositions, and current critique of realism and neo-realism.

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The course addresses concepts of power, influence and coercion, the nature of diplomatic and strategic behavior, and is organized around the following areas: The state system after World War II; problems of contemporary strategy: The impact of nuclear weapons; the theory of nuclear deterrence; Crisis Management; Limited War; arms control and the stability of Mutual Deterrence; arms limitations and control; Detente: SALT, Mutual Forces Reduction Talks, the CSCE and the INF Treaty.

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The aim of this graduate seminar is to give the student an awareness of the various foreign policy issues that confront Turkey. An attempt will be made to discuss the causes and consequences of the various crises and regional problems between Turkey and its neighbors. The Turco-Greek problems, the Cyprus dispute, Turkey’s relations with the Middle Eastern states and with the Turkish republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as the Turco-American and Turco-European ties will be examined.

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This course essentially aims to analyze the foreign policies of the big powers in Asia, including the People's Republic of China, Russia, Japan and the USA. Fundamental changes resulting from shifts in the international system from bipolarity to multipolarity and from multipolarity to detente and the end of the cold war will be the focus of the course.

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The course outlines the history of political thought as relevant to international relations, specifically, political thought on war and peace. Within this context, the course compares the way in which political philosophers, including Hobbes, Locke, Grotius, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and more recent thinkers have conceived of the state of nature between individuals and between states, as well as the views of each thinker on how to achieve peace.

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This course offers a theoretical and empirical study of the tension inherent between international human rights and foreign policy. The theoretical component addresses globalization, sovereignty, intervention-non-intervention, boundaries of morality and the relativity and universality of human rights. The course also addresses the possibility of merging human rights concerns and foreign-policy making and human rights as a factor in the foreign policies of European states, the US and Turkey.

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This course intends to examine the discussions on the New World Order and its implications on the European Security. The future of NATO, WEU and CSCE process constitute the main issues of the course. In addition, the development of Turkish security policy perceptions under these new political, economical and military circumstances in the world are evaluated.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the use and effects of propaganda, mass persuasion and psychological warfare in modern world politics. This course will cover the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. It will focus on the historical development of propaganda and the use of different propaganda means such as the printed press, film, history and maps which will be examined using specific case studies.

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International political sociology (IPS) has recently emerged as a sub-field of international studies.
The main tenets of this new literature are the emphasis on social practices, a sociological approach to the international and international political problems as the main analytical focus. This course surveys the contributions of scholars inspired by Michel Foucault’s thought to the study of International Relations. It introduces students to Foucault’s later work known as governmentality
and the genealogical method. The course then focuses upon current transformations in world
politics from a governmentality perspective. In particular, it highlights the international political
sociology literature on questions such as international order, war, political power, governance, reason of state, risk, territoriality and borders. The objectives of this course are assessing the contributions of governmentality perspective to the IR discipline and developing the skills to use
theoretical concepts to analyze empirical political phenomena.

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This course aims to give an overall understanding on the fundamentals and the dynamics of the politics of transnational migration and population movements. In this course, the theories, historical developments and the complexities regarding the politics of human displacements are covered. After giving a general understanding on terminology, concepts, actors and issues on transnational migration, the course focuses on the dynamics of global population movements.

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This seminar consist of two parts: The first part examines the regional and international aspects of oil, focusing on the primacy of oil in the Middle East, oil discovery and concessions, the emergence of OPEC and the structural changes in the oil market. The second part addresses the socioeconomic and political effects of oil on oil-exporting states and discusses the rentier state/rentier economy model, employing extensive case studies.

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The goal of this course is; to provide the students with a general understanding of social science research methods; to equip then with basic research design skills. The course has three aims; an introduction to empirical political research methods; an introduction to research and publication ethics; to develop skills in the analysis; interpretation an presentation of research findings, including standards fro written research reports. The course will encourage the students to develop awareness on: the real nature of research; the means of collecting information; to report findings.

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The aim of the course is to analyze the roots and forms of radicalism in Middle Eastern Politics. Beginning with discussions of Arab nationalism and Arab Baath Socialism the course focuses on the historical roots and the ideological outlook of radical Islam, with particular emphasis on the following issues: Radical Islam and the West, Iran as a revolutionary state, Islamic movements in Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf, radical Islam and North Africa.

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The objective of this course,first, is to provide the students with an analytical understanding of the politics of international interventions from 19th century to today, second, to upgrade students to a level of critical reading of the documents and contextualization of the international interventions, and lastly to encourage each student to work out her his own reading of the recent and current international interventions from 19th century to today.

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The aim of this graduate course is to give the student an awareness of the various domestic and international factors that influence government, politics and foreign policymaking in the five Central Asian states and in Azerbaijan. In addition to the history of the region, we will examine the contemporary developments and we will try to project the future shape of the region's socio-political and geopolitical landscape.

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Europeanization. Theoretical Approaches to Enlargement. Realism and European Foreign Policy. Indentity and European Foreign Policy. Domestic Politics and European Foreign Policy. Foucauldian Approaches to European Foreign Policy. Practice Approach to European Foreign Policy. Role Theory and Europe. Discourse Theory and European Foreign Policy. Securitization and the EU. The EU as an Empire. The EU as a Transformative Actor.

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This course attempts to analyze major issues of European Integration within a theoretical framework. The course begins with an analysis of the major theories of European Integration; such as functionalism, neo-functionalism and federalism. On the basis of this theoretical framework, the course focuses on the two main issues of European Integration, "supranationalism versus intergovernmentalism" and "widening versus depending".

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This graduate seminar entails a general survey and a critical appraisal of the British School of International Relations. First, it places the British School in the "British tradition" and attempts to uncover its historical origins. Secondly, it distinguishes the British School from other schools of International Relations such as the Realist School, Behavioralist School and World System School. Then, it proceeds to critically examine the work of the representative scholars identified with the School.

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The objective of this course is to provide students with an analytical understanding of current political and security developments in East-Central Europe. The focus will be on the issues of post-Cold War political integration tendencies and security problems in East-Central Europe. Evolution of the attitudes and roles of major political and security organizations concerning East-Central Europe are to be examined.

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This course will introduce the students the major concepts, approaches, actors and issues in peace and conflict studies. The aim of the course is to develop the necessary analytical and critical skills and tools in analysing conflicts, their root causes and how to transform and manage them in a peaceful way.

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This seminar provides an overview of international relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its objective is to link the issues in international relations of the MENA region with theories and concepts of the discipline. In the discussion of these issues, it aims to identify the linkages between domestic politics on the one hand and regional and global politics on the other.

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The purpose of this course is to examine the evolution of the international economic relations since the emergence of the modern state system in the mercantilist period. The course is intended to give students background on the interaction between economics, economic history, politics, international history, and international relations. In this context, the theories and history of international economic relations will be discussed with an emphasis on the significant issues in the twentieth century. During the lectures and seminars, the emergence and evolution of the international economy since the mercantilist era will be analyzed in the context of inter-state relations. The emphasis will be on the impact of inter-state system and military and security issues on the international and national and the interaction between them. Accordingly, the political impact on the operation of the international and national markets and the opportunities provided and limitations imposed on the political, military security, and autonomy issues by the market will be analyzed. In this context, the analysis will also focus on the interaction and the relationship between state and market, power and production, growth, development, distribution of wealth, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and the multinational corporations (MNCs)

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This course aims to introduce and evaluate the recent Turkish experience as a participant of the Council of Europe human rights regime, with emphasis on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the sole control organ of the system presently. The course discusses, to begin with, human rights under international law and, in particular, the issue of the international protection of human rights, in turn moving on to the European human rights regime through establishment and the subsequent development. The main thrust of the course then becomes the case law of the ECHR, offering open-ended discussion of several cases, which involve, or of relevance to, Turkey.

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During the lectures and seminars, the political, economic and foreign policy establishments in Greece in different international environments will be discussed. The institutional structures and the power positions and orientations of main individual actors and groups and their respective roles in the economic and political developments are analyzed with a special emphasis on the democratization and Europeanization processes. The relations with major European powers, Turkey, the US, and the EU are analyzed with reference to the domestic political and economic structures and actors.

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The objective of this course is to provide students with an analytical understanding of current security developments in Europe. The modern history of Europe from the World War I to to-day is to be taught to prepare a better ground to focus on the issues of the post-Cold War security considerations in Europe. Tutelage of European security under the US and the USSR, the European responses and continuity and departure in the making of European security are to be discussed. The Evolution attitudes and roles of major powers and restructuring of security organizations (NATO, WEU, OSCE and ESDI and EDSP) concerning European security are to be examined. The unilateral and multilateral military interventions in the post-Cold War era in Europe are to be specifically discussed with particular references to different schools of thoughts. Students are expected to look into first hand documents and are encouraged to follow up the latest developments in Europe.

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This course is intended primarily for MSc International Relations and MSc in European Studies. It may also be taken by certain students provided that they already have a sufficient knowledge of the process of European integration and of the EU, its political system and its policy-making as a whole. The aim of the course is to develop a detailed critical/analytical approach to the study of the one of the most important political and economic issues facing EC/EU since its foundation, namely the enlargement of the Union to include new members. The course hence aims to complement more general courses on European integration and EU. By drawing on the experience and lessons of previous enlargements, the course will provide a detailed knowledge on the current enlargement process to include the 10 Central and Eastern European countries as well as 3 Mediterranean states; Cyprus, Malta and Turkey. The course also aims to develop a comprehensive and comparative approach to the analysis of EU-Turkey relations by placing it in the broader context of an enlarging and deepening Europe. Indeed, the overall impact of enlargement-both in terms of challenges and possibilities- for the EU can be studied not only by focusing on the internal (policy) implications and external implications of enlargement but also by placing emphasis on the uneasy relationship between enlargement and deepening of the EU. What emerges are the current recurrent contending visions of European unity (federalist versus confederalist; Atlanticist versus Europeanist) ant the pros and cons of a more differentiated Europe that appears to be breaking forth in the Union.

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This post-graduate course seeks to explore and analyze the evolution of Russia s place in the European state-system, especially in the post-Cold war era. The first part of this course discusses various conceptual frameworks that are used to analyze the dilemmas in Russia s process of Westernization and the existing conceptions of Europe among the Russian intelligentsia. The next part deals mainly with the historical evolution of Russia s orientation towards the European state-system during both the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Afterwards, the course will discuss Russia s place in the emerging institutional architecture of Europe in the post-Cold war era. In this part, the emphasis will be on Russia s relations with CSCE/ OSCE, NATO and the European Union. In the penultimate section, the course will examine Russia s relations with the Western countries, the Central and East European countries, the Balkans and the Baltics. The concluding part will discuss the change and continuity in Russia s place in the European state-system.

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This graduate course aims to provide students with a critical historical understanding of state-money/finance relations since the 16th century with a particular focus on the post 1980 developments. After a methodological and theoretical analysis on money and finance and the constitutive role played by social relations and states on monetary and financial developments, the course will problematise the issue in relation to changing global hegemonic powers, international monetary orders, international organization of credit, and global financial crises.

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This course introduces the student to (a) the `theory` in the event and (b) the `event` in the theory, in the reference frame of world politics, with a view to enhancing the uses of theory in postgraduate work. The theory in the event designates the thematic patterns that emerge out of cases, situations and acts in international affairs, enabling abstract thinking on the event, roughly in response to the question: What is the pattern? And the event in the theory is about the functioning of theories as simplifying devices, rehearsing answers to the question: How do theories make sense of events that are inherently chaotic? The course, which does not assume a prior knowledge of theories of IR, aims to provide instruction on these themes through attention grabbing examples provided by the world of movies.

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The oceans rich in living and non-living resources (such as fish, oil, gas, and minerals) constitute primary media for international commerce and communication. After World War II, upon arrival of new actors to international system and introduction of new technologies, the traditional uses of the oceans such as fishing and shipping were transformed and a number of new uses such as seabed mining, ocean energy extraction, construction of artificial islands were introduced. This intensified and diversified interest towards the oceans brought new challenges as well as major legal achievements. The purpose of this course is to introduce the graduate students the basic concepts of ocean politics and to provide them the ability of making in depth analysis on various aspects of marine issues.

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Our planet is threatened by a wide variety of environmental problems ranging from climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, marine pollution, desertification to extinction of species, which require international cooperation. Though the commitment of the states to protect the quality of the environment is impressive, the implementation of these policies is problematic. In this course, the nature and extent of the global environmental issues and the response given by humanity to these problems, at national, regional and international level will be analysed.

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This course is about space and politics in international affairs, often associated with geopolitics, a quasi-systemic approach to space and military strategy in global society constituted by states, or blocks of states, engaged in interest pursuit and power maximization. The bulk of the course is premised on geopolitical thinking in the West in the last century, including the post-Cold War extensions or transformations of traditional geopolitics. It also seeks an exploration of critical probings into geopolitics by geographers as well as assessments of space and superpower politics outside the mainstream. The course at once ventures into the politics of space beyond strategic thinking, and aims, informed by recent insights from social and political theory, to trace the uses of space and spatiality in the discourse of transnational, trans-local encounter.

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The course provides students with a broad introduction to China`s political, economic, and strategic development during the modern era. The discussion begins with a general introduction of Chinese pre-modern and modern history as the roots of contemporary developments and ends with China`s contemporary rise and implications for the world. The course also touches upon the ways in which China is rising such as economy and societal change. The course is divided into four parts. Part I introduces the imperial and republican history of China. This part provides historical background for analyses of domestic and foreign policies in the People`s Republic of China. Part II examines China`s traditional economy and economic reform and openness since 1978. Part III discusses major issues in contemporary Chinese society. Part IV examines China`s foreign relations. Finally, the course discusses China`s peaceful rise and the U. S response to it.

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This course will look at a wide variety of methods for researching politics in the contemporary world. To do this, we will first look at some general and theoretical issues of research methodology. Subsequent sessions will tend to be more practical and concentrate on issues directly related to carrying out research projects using the different methodologies. The final sessions will look at ideas on how to write up a piece of research and present it to an audience.

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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.

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This is a graduate course in the field of European Studies. Students will be given course objectives, stimulating material and an extensive course reading list. This course introduces the main concepts and theories of international migration in order to analyse different types of migration. The course both analyses and assesses the role of individual European states and the EU the formation of European immigration policies since the Second World War. Particular emphasis will be given to recent developments in the formation of common European asylum and refugee policies which have taken on new impetues since the birth of the single market in 1992.

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The aim of this course is to analyse the interaction of the Middle East with the processes of globalization. The course will cover how the region is affected by the economic, political and cultural aspects of globalization as well as its own role to play in this process. By placing the region`s experience of globalization into a wider perspective and looking at globalization as a dialectical process in which the Middle East plays an active role as well as being affected by it, the course will complement the theoretical debates with case studies.

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This is a legal course in international human rights law that centres on a close scrutiny of actual cases in mapping and discussing issues of human rights in western Europe. As a theme ``human rights`` is usually associated with somewhat peripheral political cultures in which the civil society is typically weak and grievances abound due to partisan, patriarchal or discriminating uses of public authority. The present course focuses instead on democracies in western Europe that seem rarely suspect in this regard, stretching from the UK, France and Germany to Iceland and Norway, from Spain and Italy, to Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland.

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This postgraduate course seeks to examine the key aspects of energy, water and environmental policies in and around the European Union. The first part of the course develops the conceptual framework for analyzing the relationships among energy, water and environment by exploring the political realist, liberal and critical approaches. In the following part, the course will deal with the development and characteristics of energy, water and environment policies in the European Union. The concluding final part of the course discusses in interactions between the energy, water and environment policies inside the European Union and its neighborhood, covering the Americas, Africa, Asia, Eurasia and Turkey.

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The aim of this course is to analyse the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is considered by many people to be at the heart of the crisis of the modern Middle East. The course will analyse the evolution of the conflict from the late-Ottoman period onwards by bringing in analysis from different perspectives. The course aims to provide the stuents with an understanding of the historical development of the conflict, the major debates and discourses that have emerged regarding the histography, the sociology, the politics and the international relations of the conflict as well as an understanding of the essential political ideas and ideologies that have motivated and guided the principle actors in the conflict.

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Overcoming the security dilemma. Copenhagen School. Feminist approaches to security. Critical security studies. Human security. Post-structural approaches to security. International political sociology. Postcolonial approaches to security.

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The aim of this course is to study the influence of religion and nationalism in world politics. Examining closely the historical origins of moders international relations, the course revolves around the role of religion and nationalism as important determinants of politics at the international level. The course will study theories of secularism and nationalism and will concentrate also on the relationship between nationalism and religion.

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Despite the issues associated with it democratically, the Russian Federation is a participant in the human rights protection system in Europe. The challenges formed by this fact alone appear to test, not only Russia, a federal, multi-ethic and territorially colossal edifice in painful transition, but also the very European system under a regional inter-governmental organisation, the Council of Europe. How is Russia coping? How does the European system manage to keep Russia within its orbit? This is a legal course in international human rights law that centres on actual cases in the system involving Russia. What are the typical grievances in practice? How are those grievances possibly remedied? The course seeks to rehearse answers to those and other questions through a close scrutiny of the actual case files evaluated and ruled by the European Court of Human rights, the central monitoring organ of the European human rights system.

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This course attempts to critically discuss the ideas and contributions of contemporary social and political theorists with reference to international relations theory.

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Since the 1990s, there has been a steady expansion of the practical and scholarly interest in the international role of the EC/EU both as a partner to other major actors in world affairs and as an actor in its own right. The objective of this course is to give a broad introduction to ideas and issues related to the EU´s international role and identity in a globalizing world. The course commenses with a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the international presence and actorness of the EU. Next, it overviews the legal bases and the institutional framework of EC/EU´s external relations and outlines various attempts to further develop EU´s foreign and security policy, beginning with European Political Cooperation, culminating in the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the recent transition into Common European Security and Defense Policy. Against this theoretical and historical background, the course asseses the Union´s relations with its peripheries to the east, south, and with the rest of the world. Finally, by way of conclusion, the challanges facing the EU foreign and security policy and the future of these policies are examined in an enlarging and unifying Europe.

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Since its inception the European Union (EU) has been a fiercely contested and politically divisive project. In recent years, controversial issues such as the EU enlargement, the constitutional crisis, declining public support for European integration and the latest Eurozone crisis have tested the EU to its limits and increasingly divided both political elites and mass publics. Starting with a solid overview of the European integration process in successive stages, this course will analyse the key issues and debates related to the political system of the EU and to the politics of European integration.
While most mainstream courses on the EU describe the history, the institutions, policy areas and theorizing about European integration, this course aims at familiarising the students with many of the most important issues in EU politics and enable them to reflect on the current and future state of the EU.

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This course explains why the EU has developed a human rights policy with implications on its internal evolution and external relations. To understand this, the course explores policies and mechanisms adopted by the EU including the founding treaties, the council s declarations, the parliament s resolutions and the ECJ s rulings. The course also analyses the role the Union has played in the promotion and protection of human rights in the process of enlargement. Furthermore the human rights conditionality attached to trade and development aid with the third countries is examined in the context of the EU s global reach in influencing human rights policies.

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This course aims to enrich the graduate program of the department of International Relations by proposing an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of International migration and the processes of immigrant incorporation in the host countries.Since a similar course is not currently offered, it hopes to contribute to the diversification of the departmental curriculum.

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This course aims to provide a profound examination of foreign policy phenomenon. The nature scope, actors and determinants of foreign policy; main theories and methods of Foreign Policy Analysis and their relationship with international relations and `change` in foreign policy are the main topics to be analyzed. In this framework, the actors and the structures of foreign policy; domestic and external sources of foreign policy; foreign policy decision and policy making, decisional bodies and processes (individuals/leadership, groups, organizational and bureaucratic politics) and the issue of rationality in foreign policy are discussed through case stories in the seminars. Furthermore the complex interactions between ideas, culture, media, public opinion, interest groups, etc, and foreign policy are analyzed. Special emphasis is given on ``change and foreign policy`` and the ``state transnational actors,`` ``theory and practice in foreign policy,`` and ``foreign policy implementation``.

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This course focuses on two important issues of methodology and theory of international relations: the 'level of analysis' problem and the question of 'order and change'. These two issues are analyzed within major theories of international relations. The aim of this analysis is not only to examine the main propositions of major theories of international relations with regard to these issues, but also to understand the limitations of the theories of international relations on these issues.

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The basic purpose of this graduate seminar is to give students a general understanding of philosophy of history and to explore its possible implications for political theory and the study of international relations. The idea of history and its relations with human knowledge i.e. the problem of theory and history, is the first issue to be dealt with. Then, the relations between history, political theory and the study of international relations are to be analyzed and the basic problems and issues are to be considered.

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This is an advanced seminar designed to encourage a synthesis of national and international issues facing the countries of the region ranging from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. Within this context issues of state formation, democratization, economic development, regional conflicts will be discussed.

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The aim of this course is to examine the emergence and the evolution of the idea of Europe in world politics. After examining the historical origins of this idea, the course focuses on the developments in this century, primarily on the post-second world war period. The process of European integration and its impact on the European nation-state system will be one of the central concerns of the course.

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This course is designed for Ph.D. students who are interested in the contemporary issues in Eurasia and their relevance to world politics. The course will cover the developments in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The course will explore the process of post-Soviet transition in the Eurasian countries from a critical perspective. Regional developments in Eurasia will be evaluated in comparison to the trends in other post-Communist countries in order to identify which aspects of the post-Communist transition are specific to the Eurasian region. This course will first examine the historical legacy in Eurasia, focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Subsequently, it will examine the key political, economic, social, and cultural issues in Eurasia from 1991 to the present.

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The goal of this course is; to provide the students an understanding of social science research methods; to equip them with advanced research design skills. The course has three aims; an introduction to empirical political research methods; en introduction to research and publication ethics; to develop skills in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of research findings, including standards for written research reports. The course will encourage the students to develop hands on approach on: the real nature of research; the means of collecting information; to report findings.

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The goal of this course is; to provide the students with a general understanding of social science at an advanced level; to inform them about the state of art at International Relations as a scientific discipline. The course has three aims; to introduce high level research conducted in IR at METU to PhD level students; to discuss research related issues; to provide a space for debate on analysis; interpretation and presentation of students research findings. The course will encourage the students to develop awareness on: the real nature of research; the means of collecting information; to report findings.

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This course allows the students to conduct detailed studies on post-positivist theories of International Relations discipline. The theories covered include constructivism, feminism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism. The students engage in a process of in-depth learning by extensively reading and writing research papers. The course aims at providing the students with an opportunity to build on the courses on IR theories offered by the department.

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This independent study course deals with the study of global security problems and the relevance of national security cultures in understanding these problems.

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This course will attempt to develop an interdisciplinary framework to understand the causes and consequences of globalisation. It will provide a framework to understand the process whereby the Global, Glocal and the Local interact. The course will first examine the competing theoretical perspectives to globalisation. It will then deal with the main institutions and processes of globalisation and try to show how different institutions that were once thought to be national have become globalised and changed their function and nature. In this context a particular emphasis will be paid to the concept of global civil society. Different approaches to global civil society will be analysed.

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This course aims to develop a critical understanding on the changes in global political economy since the 1970s. After a brief introductory discussion on state-market relationship and pre-1970 developments, the course will examine the reasons of the rise of neoliberalism, its dominance in economic policy-making, law making, and security institutions since the 1980s, and its limits and contradictions.

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Water is a vital resource to many levels of human survival for which there is no substitute; it ignores political boundaries, fluctuates in both space and time, and has multiple and conflicting demands on its use. In the past hundred years, the world population tripled while the demand for water has increased seven-fold. The problems facing arid and semi-arid regions of the world with respect to the availability of the sufficient good quality freshwater have been highlighted during the 20th century.The debate has been inconclusive. Hence this independent study aims to introduce the students with the evolving water management paradigms and eloborate on how these dialogues culminated in defining the integrated water resources management as the key approach for sustainable development and poverty reduction.

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The independent study Phd course aims to cover contemporary topics and issues of the Middle East. It will cover the current debates of the region through theoretical lenses and will seek to examine the key developments in the literature on the study of the Middle East. It will start by looking at the debate on studying the Middle East and the attempts to bridge the gap between IR and Middle East Studies. The course will focus both on the state-level discussions as well as the social dynamics and the social movements of the region. It will look at the critical issues that are at the heart of the region like war and peace, transnational identities, ideologies, and social movements.

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This course will enable students to understand the problems of transition in the context of state and nation building in the former Soviet space.

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This Ph.D. course seeks to explore the complex issues in Eurasian security and politics. The course will assist the PhD students, who are interested in doing an independent study on the issues in Eurasian security and politics, both in formulating their research problems and in analyzing their data. To this purpose, the course will explore alternative theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing and analysing the complexity of the issues in Eurasian security and politics.

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This independent study aims to provide an analytical insight to the ongoing process of European integration examined through the development of political and economic structures. It starts by examining the rise of social protection systems in Europe and then goes on to link them to the emergence of the EC and its role in fostering welfare capitalist structures. The course then examines a series of important policy initiatives shaping the map of European political economy such as market integration, the Social Dialogue and the European Employment Strategy. It complements the empirical analysis with a theoretical approach to recent developments on European integration through the prism of Europeanization in general and the models of capitalism literature more particularly.

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The aim of this course is to study in depth the interaction between politics, religion and nationalism. The course has therefore a theoretical, historical and comparative perspective. Beginning with some introduction to the sociology of religion, the course will introduce students to theories of secularization as well as nationalism. It will then proceed with theories of desecularization. Some case-studies on nationalism and religion will also be introduced in order to gain a comparative perspective on the role of religion and the nature of nationalism in selected countries. The last section of the course will deal with the role of religion in foreign policy.

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United States of America, foreign policy, foreign policy decision-making process.

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The role of religion in contemporary societies and global politics. Religion in the pre-modern societies; emergence of modernity; religion and modern society; secularization debate; religion and transnationalism, and the contemporary debates on religion such as post-islamism and post-secularism.

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Offering advanced teaching on issues in and around the international law of the sea, the course requires a firm theoretical grounding in international legal theory and aims to give an opportunity for post-graduate students interested in the theme to do readings in the evolving state of the art of the area. Issues covered include internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, the high seas, the deep sea bed, maritime security, and weapons testing in international waters.

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This is an independent study course that focuses on different perspectives in the study of global governance. After introducing basic notions about international institutions and global governance, it looks at theories of global governance such as realism, liberalism, Marxism, consructivism, post-structuralism. The course then focuses on specific themes in global governance.

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This is a graduate course in the field of European Studies. Students will be given course objectives, stimulating material and an extensive course reading list. This course introduces the main concepts and theories of international migration in order to analyse different types of migration. The course both analyses and assesses the role of individual European states and the EU the formation of European immigration policies since the Second World War. Particular emphasis will be given to recent developments in the formation of common European asylum and refugee policies which have taken on new impetus since the birth of the single market in 1992.

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The aim of this course is to study the influence of religion and nationalism in world politics. Examining closely the historical origins of moders international relations, the course revolves around the role of religion and nationalism as important determinants of politics at the international level. The course will study theories of secularism and nationalism and will concentrate also on the relationship between nationalism and religion.

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This post-graduate course seeks to explore and analyse the evolution of Russia´s place in the European state-system, especially in the post-Cold war era. The first part of the course discusses various conceptual frameworks that are used to analyse the dilemmas in Russia´s process of Westernization and the existing conceptions of Europe among the Russian intelligentsia. The next part deals mainly with the historical evolution of Russia´s orientation towards the European state-system during both the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Afterwards, the course will discuss Russia´s place in the emerging institutional architecture of Europe in the post-Cold War era. In this part, the emphasis will be on Russia´s relations with CSCE/OSCE, NATO and the European Union. In the penultimate section, the course will examine Russia´s relations with the Western European countries, the Central and East European countries, the Balkans and the Baltics. The concluding part will discuss the change and continuity in Russia´s place in the European state-system.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the use and the effects of propaganda, mass persuasion and psychological warfare in modern world politics. This course will cover the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. It will focus on the historical development of propaganda and the use of different propaganda means such as the printed press, film, history and maps which will be examined using specific case studies.

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This graduate course intends to explore the process of Europeanization in the Black Sea region. The course discusses the impact of the process of Europeanization on the capacity of regional states to cooperation with the key actors in wider Europe. The course is organized into two parts. The first part will discuss the nature of Europeanization and the European Neighbourhood Policy. The second part will examine the process of Europeanization in each of the following Black Sea countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey.

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The international interventions in the 19th and 20th centuries are examined to show the formation and redefinition of hegemonic projects as well as emergence of counter-hegemonic projects. This is to provide a better ground to discern continuity and change of the discourses and rhetoric of international from 19th century today. The international interventions since the end of the Cold War are to be examined taking the following cases samples: Iraq (1990), Bosnia-Herzegovina (OHR), Somalia (UNOSOM), Kosovo (UNMIK), Afghanistan (ISAF), Liberia, Congo, Ethiopia/Eritrea, East Timor, Iraq (2003)and the likelihood. The unilateral and multilateral intervention as well as ´assertive multilateral´ interventions are to be specifically discussed with particular reference to different schools of thoughts.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is considered by many people to be at the heart of the crisis of the modern Middle East. The course will analyze the evolution of the conflict from the late-Ottoman period onwards by bringing in analysis from different perspectives. The course aims to provide the students with an understanding of the historical development of the conflict, the major debates and discourses that have emerged regarding the historiography, the sociology, the politics and the international relations of the conflict as well as an understanding of the essential political ideas and ideologies that have motivated and guided the principal actors in the conflict.

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The course concentrates on the subject of foreign policy analysis and aims to provide an advanced academic approach to the making and implementation of foreign policy in theory and practice, with particular emphasis on the changing global structure in the Post Cold War era. The course objective is to provide different perspectives to the students for an advanced understanding of how foreign policy is made and implemented by state actors and the role played by non state actors. In this context, the nature, scope and definition of foreign policy; the impact of main theories and methods of international relations on foreign policy studies; internal and external sources of foreign policy behavior; decision making bodies and process and also various approaches and methods to the study of foreign policy will be covered in the lectures. The course will also cover the relations between the foreign policy and non-state actors such as NGO`s and public opinion.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the intersection of the Middle East with the processes of the globalization. The course will cover how the region is affected by the economic, political and cultural aspects of globalization as well as its own role to play in this process. By placing the region’s experience of globalization into a wider perspective and looking at globalization as a dialectical process in which the Middle East plays an active role as well as being affected by it, the course will complement the theoretical debates with case studies.

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This course will examine in depth the background and the consequences of Turkey`s involvement in regional politics. The regions to be covered include the Transcaucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), Russia, the Persian Gulf (inc. Iran and Saudi Arabia), eastern Mediterranean (Syria, Iraq, Israel and Palestine), Cyprus, the Balkans (inc. Greece, Bulgaria and others). Two additional areas the course will focus include the Turkey-EU accession process, and Turkey`s relations with the EU.

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The course examines different traditions of international ethics. Study of ethics helps us to understand the right thing to do in a certain situation. It is an indispensable part of international politics which deal with issues like war and peace, intervention, human rights global justice and development all of which have far reaching moral implications. The course starts with the realist tradition and then goes on to analyze the liberal, rationalist and the utilitarian ethical traditions. The second part of the course consists of the application of different understandings of ethics to specific issues such as war and the use of force, forced and humanitarian intervention, global justice, global governance and human rights.

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This course will enable students to understand the process of state and nation-building in the post-Soviet geography. The course aims to introduce students to the major debates in the literature concerning the state-building and nation-building.

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International Political Economy (IPE) is a complex and an evolving discipline. In examining the relationship between politics and economy, IPE focuses on the political impact on the operation of the global, regional and national markets and the opportunities provided and limitations imposed on the political, security and sovereignty issues by the market. Accordingly, this course aims to provide a background to the students about the multiple approaches to the IPE phenomena and to develop their analytical and critical skills.

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This course aims to introduce exchange students at METU to the main characteristics of contemporary Turkish politics, policies and society by offering the chance to explore actors and institutions involved. In this light, the objective is to help students contextualize and deepen their knowledge on Turkey. By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to demonstrate knowledge of Turkish politics, policies, and society and to identify international and domestic factors behind change and continuity in Turkey.

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This course will explore the role of cinema as an important critical medium of international relations.It is part of a larger project of integrating cultural and media studies to international relations theory.The course analyzes how the cinema reproduces/criticizes dominant images and meanings of IR; adresses the main issues and theories of international relations from the perspective of different films in an attempt to integrate critical approaches in international relations theory with media and cultural studies.The subjects to be covered range from the classical issues of the use of force and coerced intervention to global justice,human rights and ecology,

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This postgraduate course seeks to examine the key aspects of energy, water and environmental policies in and around the European Union. The first part of the course develops the conceptual framework for analysing the relationships among energy, water and environment by exploring the political realist, liberal and critical approaches. In the following part, the course will deal with the development and characteristics of energy, water and environment policies in the European Union. The concluding final part of the course discusses in interactions between the energy, water and environment policies inside the European Union and its neighbourhood, covering the Americas, Africa, Asia, Eurasia and Turkey.

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This is a non-credit course for M.S. students who are to take a non-thesis degree. The objective is to have them carry out research of a more limited nature than a M.S. thesis. This course seeks to provide the Non-Thesis Master`s students with supervision throughout the period when they write their term projects. Students in this course are expected to prepare a project in the field of International Relations. Students may be able to do research of their own research interest under the supervision of a faculty member.

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The IR 2590 is a course designed for graduate students of secondary/non-thesis masters program. The basic purpose of this course is to introduce to the students the history of international political theory.The course aims to explain the thoughts of major philosophers in the history of political thought.

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The course provides students with a comprehensive overview of current regional developments in world politics. After the examination of the history of regionalism and regionalization since the end of the Cold War, different dynamics in world regions will be analysed. The course will cover topics such as Arab-Israeli Conflict, Regional Integration in Europe, Developments in Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region.

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The course provides students with a comprehensive overview of current issues in world politics. After the examination of the main features of the international system, the course will focus on current issues in international politics within an analytical framework. The course will cover topics such as international security, ,international political economy, ,international migration, religion in world affairs, human rights and humanitarian intervention.

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The course assesses the changing role of Europe in the new world order. While the EU has long enjoyed a prominent position in global governance, the realignment of power relations poses a challenge to this regional organization. The course first examines the foreign policy of the EU, then proceeds to analyze the foreign policy of the EU and individual European states wherever necessary towards East Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Europe’s relations with major powers such China and Russia will also be discussed within the scope of the course.

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