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This course provides the introductory conceptual framework for the study of politics and the changing social world. Definition of the basic concepts of authority, power, ideology, socialization, stratification, culture and gender will be combined with the examination of the basic approaches in the socilogical theory and political science.

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This course examines the rise and fall of great powers as political, military and economic entities. Since 1500, history has shown many comparable examples regarding the relation of economic and military overstretch of many great states like Ming China, Ottoman Empire, France, Great Britain, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Prussia and the two great powers at the beginning of this century: the United States and Russia. All this will be considered in the framework of the -European Balance of Power- and the traditional -isolationist foreign policy- of the U.S. in the last century. The beginning of World War I and its implications on the world balance of power will be considered. The developments in Europe and U.S. since 1919 until today will be examined. World War I and the new political structure after 1918 will be considered from the point of global developments. World War II and the involvement of the U.S. in European affairs, the Cold War Sovietization of Eastern Europe and the emancipation of the Third World ocountries are also to be discussed. The relations among the industrial and non-industrial countries in political, economic and military fields will be explained with some comments on future prospects for global developments.

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This course is a survey of prehistoric and primitive societies, and civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The focus is on the Greek society and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Turkish Empires and their social, economic and political institutions.

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The aim of this course is to introduce the students to main issues in international relations discipline and provide a general framework for understanding the processes of globalisation and the changing meanings of governance and order. The impact of globalisation on different structures and processes of world politics, including security, political economy, international organisations, nationalism, environment, gender and culture will be the main focus of this course.

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This course is an introduction to the international history of the -short- twentieth century. Its primary concerns are the rise and formation of the modern international order with analysis directed at the causes and consequences of the two world wars, the processes of decolonization, the development of the Cold War and the development of international organizations and world order over the twentieth century.

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This course provides the introductory conceptual framework for the study of politics.Definitions of the basic concepts of authority, power, sovereignity, legitimacy, and ideology will be followed by the examination of major political ideologies. The course also studies political regimes and systems, pressure groups, political parties, elections and voting behavior.

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This course surveys a conceptual and historical introduction to constitutional government and law. Within that framework, it also examines the constitutional movements of the Ottoman Empire and the early Republican period. In the final part of the course, the 1961 and 1982 Turkish Constitutions are analyzed with a comparative outlook.

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This course will introduce students to some of the fundamental concerns of political thought. What does it mean to do justice to the community? How should our society be organised and administered? Can humans live together, and if so how? Is politics moral activity? What is the nature of humans? These are just some of the fundamental questions the classical political thinkers attempt to address. Their answers vary enormously. However it is not just a case of establishing claims to truth to do with the political world, we need to be aware that the great political thinkers were equally concerned to justify their claims. How do they claim to know (or think they know) they are right? Students will be thus introduced to more involved and very important philosophical questions concerning the nature of enquiry itself. What is the nature of political reality (ontology), and how do we know (epistemology)? Our classical political thinkers to be studied on this course supply us with highly detailed and often brilliant accounts of both. And, importantly, their ideas remain valid in terms of the ways we go about attempting to understand our own political world today.

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The course 2 History of Political Thought I . It focuses on the major work of the political thinkers of Renaissance and modern eras.It analyses Renaissance Humanism,strategic approach to political action, scientific and intellectual revolution of the 17th Centruy, the bitrh of liberalism,the rise of democratic theory,modernity and politics,the conception of historicity and the philosophy of life.

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This course provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of contending theories of international relations with a special reference to important theoretical debates between idealist vs realist, traditionalist vs behavioralist and realist vs neo-realist approaches. The course will also address the central assumptions and key concepts of these theoretical perspectives.

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This course provides a conceptual introduction to the field of Comparative Government. After briefly analyzing the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government, it studies the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Federation.

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This course is designed to introduce students to the range and scope of comparative analysis and the various ways and means in which comparative research is conducted. We shall investigate, for example, the nature of the state; how if at all its powers are separated; the nature of social and economic power and its impact on state decision-making; the relationship between capitalism and the state; non-capitalist economic alternatives, the effects of tradition and political culture, and so on. Students are expected to gain crucial investigative skills and insights to undertake meaningful case study analysis in the follow-up course PSIR 211 Comparative Government.

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This course introduces the students a range of commonly used methods of social research at an introductory level. Particular emphasis will be on the needs of the research in political science and international relations disciplines. As the course is about how to conduct research, it will focus on how to formulate research questions and subsequent hypotheses, how to design a research plan, determining what methodologies are appropriate, and performing the specified analysis. The course is not restricted to purely quantitative or qualitative approaches, rather it will emphasize determining appropriate methodologies given specific research areas of interest.

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This course examines the historically changing expressions and meanings of war and peace. Is -war- a distinctive form of social and political violence ? Is peace simply the absence of war ? Is peace or war the international norm ? How have the causes of war (and peace) changed over history ? How have wars been concluded and has this entailed the outbreak of peace ? These and other questions are addressed in the context of the development of international relations, the international system and imperialism. The basic ideas of war studies on the one hand and peace studies on the other hand are introduced and reviewed before considering a range of theoretical approaches to the field and examining distinct historical examples of the outbreak of wars and the conclusion of -peace-.

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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 is an introductory course in which basic concepts and general principles of law, as well as issues concerning the Turkish legal system, are studied in order to provide an introduction to legal concepts and institutions that will serve as a foundation for other courses dealing with legal studies. The scope of the course includes, but is not limited to, the characteristics of law as compared to other rules of social conduct; functions of law; basic legal concepts and legal institutions; sources of law; the court systems; and other related issues.

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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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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 is intended to provide an introduction to the different methodological approaches in the field of international political economy and to the basic concepts and issues in international politics and economics. It will also 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 east Asia, Africa and the newly emerging market economies of the former centrally-planned economies.

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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 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 is a level 4 course which will look at a wide variety of methods for researching politics in the contemporary world. Although the first sessions will 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. They will deal with the use of different research methodologies, their appropriateness for investigating particular issues, and the analysis and assessment of different types of data. The final sessions will look at ideas on how to design and write up a piece of research and present these ideas to an audience.

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This course aims to critically review competing theoretical approaches to nations and nationalism. It will also seek to deepen understanding of these theories through an analysis of a number of comparative case studies drawn from Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. This analysis will draw on historical experiences of nationalism as well as contemporary examples of nationalist political movements. The course will also include an examination of the emergence of sub-nationalist and secessionist movements and the impact that globalisation is having on nationalism today

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This course is designed to introduce you to the political economy of the Turkey. The course topics are grouped according the various political and economic issues that Turkey has faced. The course will start by the economic and political foundations of the early Turkish Republic and continue with the state-led development, agricultural policies, and import substitution industrialization experience. Later, it will focus on the political and economic crisis in the 1970s and the military coups. Next, we will focus on the economic and political liberalization efforts in 1980s and the main problems faced in the 1990s. Lastly, some current issues in Turkish political economy will be discussed. Underdevelopment, the tension between democracy and economic growth, industrialization, agricultural policies, class conflicts, economic liberalization, regionalization, chronic inflation, and financial crises will be among the course topics.

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This course aims to introduce students to the debates on the origins, nature and development of capitalism. The course is divided into four parts : the first part introduces students to the literature on the historical origins of capitalism. The second part then looks at the nature of capitalism from a political economy perspective. The third part highlights the relationship between capitalism and the state whilst the final part focuses on theories of contemporary capitalism.

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This course introduces students to history of imperial organisation, state formation and imperial interventions in the making of the modern Middle East. In particular focus will be concentrated on four periods : first, the formal ‘great power’ post-Ottoman divisions of the region, the peace treaties and settlement treaties, out of which the new state order was built. The geo-politics prior to and in preparation of the Paris peace treaties, Sevres and later Lausanne will be scrutinised. Second, the geo-politics of resource access (oil) and demographic movements during and throughout the League of Nations period, up to and including the second world war will be examined. Third, the contemporaneous rise of Arab and Jewish nationalism and their imbrication in imperial and Cold War order will be studied. And finally the tensions of confessional politics in the post-Cold War order, focusing on Israel-Palestine, Iraq and Iran will be used to assess more recent expressions of imperial interventions. Whilst principally a course in international history, regular reference will be made to theories of imperialism, critical political economy and historical sociology.

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This course introduces students to key issues concerning international human rights. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of international human rights and consider the role of human rights in the international realm. There will be an examination of treaty texts, state reports, recent research, and actual cases before international bodies, along with media presentations. The course will be conducted through readings, lectures, and student presentations.

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This course aims to examine the major issues of political science from the vantage point of sociological theories and concepts. In this vein, the course will discuss the social origins of state, civil society, citizenship, parties and law, as the fundamental objects of inquiry in political science. The relationships between power struggles, social movements and the transformation of political structure/regime will be another central issue to be dealt with. The examination of the issues such as citizenship, democracy and civil society will be linked to some pertinent political issues such as the enlargement of the European Union and new social movements.

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This course introduces students to questions in the history of the Cyprus conflict, representing both a history of the conflict itself and an examination of the role of history in the conflict. The course will require students to examine both primary and secondary materials and to conduct research on contested issues in the island’s recent history, including the role of British colonialism in the conflict, the rise of nationalist mobilization, and the increasing division of society leading to partition. Students will learn what materials are available to research Cyprus’ recent history, and they will also examine the construction of history within the context of conflict.

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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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This 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. Thn the course proceeds to discuss major issue areas that have been taking shape in the post-Soviet Central Asia and dominating the scholarly debate in the field of Central Asia Studies. The course will consist of lectures, reading assignments, class discussions and film representations. No special knowledge of the region on the par of students is presumed.

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Political systems, institutions, and actors of contemporary Latin America (including the Caribbean). An analysis of the nature of the independence process and early state and nation building efforts on the part of Creole elites and the alternating development policies followed by Latin American governments from te early twentieth century. The rise of the revolutionary Left during the 1960s, the consolidation of military dictatorships and national security states in the 1970s, and the return of democracy in the 1990s. Regional and international relations, focusing on regional trade agreements, international organizations, and relations with the US and the rest of the world. The impact of new political movements and actors, with a specific focus on indigenous political movements and the establishment of indigenous autonomy projects. Discussions of leading theories of Latin American politics, international relations, and political economy, videos and the examination of different case studies. Student presentations of case studies of their choice.

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The course is an effort to understand the content of contemporary sociological theory that emphasizes the manner in which sociological theory provides insights in to the character and dynamics of social reality. The focus is on making the theory accessible and relevant to an intellectual community that includes not only social science students that must acquire familiarity with sociological theory, but also to a broader intellectual community of persons and groups interested in unraveling, and piecing together, characteristics of social world. The course will focus on variety of forms of what is termed sociological theory, while at the same time examining contemporary expressions of it.

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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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This course is designed to build a core understanding of the basic theories, concepts, and policies of international development in political, economic and social senses. Major contemporary issues facing Third World countries (e.g. industrialization, urbanization, agricultural development, poverty, gender and development, environmental degradation) is also examined.The course is multi-disciplinary as it draws on history, economics, politics, and sociology to discuss the problems and prospects of development. It will be integrating theory with practice in development. All issues will be examined from diverse perspectives, and students will learn to integrate and reconcile these diverse views.

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The course aims to identify and analyze various factors contributing to Turkey`s 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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This course aims to provide an introduction to the study of development and the developing world. It introduces students to the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks through a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary issues in Third World development. By using an interdisciplinary approach the course hopes to explore the nature of structural changes taking place in the developing world. It will cover a variety of development problems and issues and explore different interpretations of such issues. The first part of the course focuses on definitions and theories of development, providing an historical account of the evolution of development theory and practice in recent decades. The second part of the course consentrates on key development strategies by paying specific attention to the role of state and international agencies.

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In the first section of the course the Iranian politics in the eve of the rise of the modern state in the aftermath of the Constitutional revolution of 1906. Then, the rise of the modern state and transition to modernity through socio-political and economic reforms during Reza Shah (1921-1941). Following the failure of the transition to democracy during 1941-1953 the rise of authoritarian-Bureaucratic state during the reign of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1953-1978) will be analyzed. Finally, the Revolution and the politics of a radical fundamentalist state in Iran will be the main focus. In the ``foreign policy`` section, both Iranian foreign policy and the ``orientations`` and ``goals`` will be analyzed. Next, the context of Great Games and its aftermath in early twentieth century will be analyzed. Following the era of a search for the Third Force, Iranian foreign policy during the modernization period of Reza Shah (1921-1941) will be the main issue of the course. This will be followed by the Iranian Foreign Policy in the early years of Cold War. Then, the return to classic foreign policy orientation of ``Alliance and Coalition`` (1953-1979) will be discussed. Finally, the rise of Idealism in the Islamic foreign policy and regional and international challenges faced by Iran will be discussed.

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Students will form preferably interdisciplinary groups and will prepare a paper on a research or policy issue. Each group will be supervised by one or two instructors. In addition to the final report at the end of the semester, the group will be required to submit a minimum of 1 progress report halfway through the semester.

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This course will seek to familiarise students with some of the key political thinkers and schools of thought of the 20th century. The 20th century was arguably the most tumultuous in history, punctuated by two great human cataclysms and almost continual warfare and ongoing struggles and pressures, largely inherited from the previous century. All of these pressures have their origin one way or another in the process referred to (often ambiguously) as ‘modernity’. Modernity can be marked off for our purposes as involving two essential revolutionary currents and upheavals. Firstly, in terms of the means of production - we have witnessed the spread and rapid proliferation of the economic practice of capitalism and industrialisation. This has led to the growth of class politics, well underway during the 19th century, and the politics of resistance, criticism, reform and revolution. Second, much political theorising has surrounded the means of administration which has drawn in particular debates on the nation-state and its mechanisms and the nature and would-be expectations of liberal democracy. We shall also consider the development of totalitarian alternatives to liberal democracy and the dangers associated with them.

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This course aims to introduce students to the core theoretical debates and empirical issue-areas of contemporary Global Political Economy (GPE), and to develop their research and critical analysis skills in the study of GPE. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part, it introduces students to the historical and theoretical foundations of GPE. The second part then looks at core GPE issues such as economic globalization, neoliberalism and state restructuring. The last part focuses on broader GPE issues such as global inequality, labor and social justice movements in the North and South.

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This course is a capstone course for the war, peace and security studies courses in the PSIR programme, bringing together the theories, concepts, methods, historiographical debates and techniques developed in earlier courses and now brought to bear in the analysis of current expressions of war and peace. Current and recent examples of war and of peace negotiations and settlements, including post-war reconstruction, will be examined. The course will select, on a case study basis, current or recent examples for examination

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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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This course provides a comparative introduction to political cultures in the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus. The course will explore the ways in which citizens in a nation-state, or those who aspire to build a nation-state, legitimize politics, define inclusion in the nation, and formulate the rights and responsibilities of citizens. We will draw upon the anthropological and sociological literature on the region to examine the norms, symbols, and practices of politics, including the formation and often contradictory practices of nationalist ideologies.

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This course which will introduce you to the principal political economic debates, controversies and policies that have developed regarding key aspects of global environmental change. In addition to a brief examination of the international history of environmental change, the course seeks to focus on a select number of environmental problems and discusses some of the proposed remedies for environmental harms or policies for ‘sustainability’.

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This course introduces students to questions regarding the contemporary nature of terrorism, and in particular will examine the global, political, economic and cultural roots of terrorism and terrorist groups. There will be an examination of theoretical debates on terrorism as well as detailed analysis of case studies, past and present. The course will also examine the relationship between the United States and terrorist groups during the Cold War period and contrast this with its present day ‘War on Terror’. This course will be conducted through discussions of leading theories of nations and nationalism as well as examination of different case studies.

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This course introduces students to key issues concerning international humanitarian law. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of international humanitarian law and consider the role of humanitarian law in the international realm

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This course introduces five political and sociological themes in the study of Turkish society, which are discussed and analyzed from different perspectives. These themes and issues have both historical roots and incessant actuality. In view of this, these themes could function as vantage points for developing a coherent perspective to the historical transformation as well as to the current structure of Turkish society. These issues include a)  State apparatus in Turkey, which will deal with the topics such as democratisation in Turkey, center-periphery paradigm, the role of military in Turkish political history. b) Nationalism in Turkey, which will cover the themes such as Kemalism, citizenship practices, ethnicity and race, ultra-nationalism in Turkish politics. c)  Religion and Politics in Turkey, which will elaborate on secularization, laicism, the rise of Islamic conservatism in Turkish society.d) Gender and Society in Turkey, which willl focus on nationalism and women, Muslimhood and women, Kemalism and women and feminist movement in Turkey. e)  Urban Life in Turkey, which will examine trajectory of urbanization, migration and urban poor.

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How do states or societies that have suffered massive human rights abuses deal with the complex legacies of their past as they transition to peace and democracy? What can policymakers or activists do to defuse the bitterness of past conflict or repression and meet rhetorical and political demands for justice? This course examines the ethical, political, legal, and practical challenges that states face when trying to overcome the legacy of a violent past. It begins by looking at the development of transitional justice as field of political and social activism, including its relationship to political science and international law. It sets out the developing legal framework that supports such activism, as well as the practical constraints and ethical dilemmas that both characterize such contexts and make transitional justice such a complicated field.

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This course provides a critical analysis of different historical sociological approaches to international relations. It aims to provide a comprehensive account of international political and economic change. Can international relations be explained only as an interaction between states? What is the effect of war on social change? What is the relation between capitalism and the international state system? Does domestic class structure of societies and their economic transformation effect international change? This course will adress these questions in the context of different historical sociological approaches thus analysing the overlapping concerns of international relations, history and sociology.

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Diplomacy is broadly defined as the peaceful dialogue and interaction between political units and asid to be one oldest profession in the world. It is as old as civilization itself. It has considerably evolved and taken different forms at different times. Modern diplomacy has evolved fast after the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648. However in this fast changing age of communication is diplomacy losing its raison d`etre? This course examines the nature of diplomacy; development of modern diplomacy from its origins in the 15th Century Europe until the 20th Century, focusing on the implementation of modern diplomacy, with specific references to the Turkish diplomacy as appropriate.

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This course provides a framework for discussing the ethical dimensions of international relations. It aims to provide students with different approaches to international ethics. Is ethics only what the powerful say? Is it possible to have a moral foreign policy? Under what circumstances is it legitimate to intervene into the affairs of another state? How can we define the national interest? Can ethics and international business coincide? What are the ethical issues involved in global climate change? Do the rich nations owe to help the poor ones? This course will adress these questions in the context of different ethical traditions in international relations

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The course is designed as a general introduction to the primary and secondary sources of European law covering European institutions involved in the European law making process. The materials follow three basic themes: 1) The constitutional and institutional architecture of the Union and its evolution, 2) Select issues of EU-Turkey relations, and 3) Incorporation of European law into national legislation.Attention focuses on equipping the students with the basic information necessary to understand the basic principles of European legal integration

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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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In this course the concept of democracy is studied from its genesis to our day. The analysis includes different theories and aims to provide the student the ability of critically compr-ehending and evaluating the practice(s) of democracy in the contemporary world.

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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 is composed of two main sections. In the first section, the role of political parties is discussed in relation to the political system and social structure. In this section main issues of interest are social class, interest articulation, election systems, parliamentary democracy, one party states, and the relations of social groups with the state. In the second section, political party as an institution is studied. The subject matters of this section are party organization, leadership, membership, fractions, inter party democracy, and the relationships of party structure and ideology are.

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The objective of this course is to provide for students of political science a theoretically informed analysis of democratization in Turkey, with specific reference to the impact of the relations with the EU and Europeanization process. It is the intention of this course to emphasize the interplay between domestic and international forces (here mainly the EU) in the democratization process in Turkey, in addition to the general objective of providing a theoretical framework and a comparative perspective to the challenges of democratization in Turkey. This course will analyze the political reform process in Turkey as well as the challenges in institution-building and in democratizing the political culture at mass and elite levels.

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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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This course aims to introduce and discuss the theoretical and practical interrelation of politics, art and visual culture from the 20th century to this day. The course is divided into five parts. We will first tackle some key theoretical texts that discuss the relationship between politics, visual culture and art. Then we will move on to the visual politics of the nation-states and visual representations of Cold War ideologies. in Part III, we will accentuate the political perspective of avant-garde practices and the gendered nature of visual politics. Later on, we will scrutinize the usage of visual practices in political protests. And in the final part, we will focus on the neoliberal political relations behind the contemporary art scene and the politics of museum display.

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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 will make an in-depth study of some of the key developments and personalities in social and political theory of the modern era. We cover thinkers who offer accounts of how society can be best organised and administered. This is often an urgent question since societies do exist and do have to be ordered and administered. And yet we encounter inevitably deeper-lying questions also as to how society might be organised and administered, not only effectively and efficiently, but so arranged as to do justice to human beings - provide security and freedom, and so on. This causes us to enquire in turn as to the nature of humans and their societies, which raises further questions, such as how it is humans are capable of living in society at all. Are we selfish or altruistic? Are our natures fixed or malleable? Do humans make society or does society somehow make humans? These are some of the fascinating themes to be covered. We range from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the early contract theorists through to the rise of German reason in the 19th century, post-Enlightenment criticism, to more recent 20th century postmodernist arguments. We shall identify some key topics and principles which seem to encapsulate the concerns of political and social speculation, together with the practical political and social problems of the age in question.

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This course surveys the problematiques of `development` and `modernization` in comparative politics; explore the emergence of the institutions and structures of capitalist modernity in a global comparative context, as well as the subsequent efforts to achieve/impose late-development; inter-disciplinary framework in order to avoid Eurocentrist biases of conventional comparative political analysis, such as a pre-determined division between East and West, North and South or `First World` and `Third World`.

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This course provides a foundation in the theoretical and historical analysis of core ideas in International Relations. It introduces and critically surveys the normative and analytic development of modern International Relations in its enquiry into the making of modern world orders.

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This course considers a number of approaches to the study of the global political economy (including Realism, liberalism, Marxism, constructivism, environmentalism, and feminism), before examining the evolution of the global political economy and its existing structures. The course analyses the global forces that have shaped the world economic system and looks at the interaction between international economic developments and domestic politics as well as the ways in which international institutions govern the global economy. In addition a number of issue areas such as globalization of trade, finance, and investment, the North-South dilemma, global development and inequality and sustainable development are examined.

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This course introduces Masters students to the philosophy of social sciences as well as providing some foundations in research methods in social and political sciences. Following a survey of philosophies of social sciences and social enquiry, an introduction to quantitative research techniques and sources is explained before introducing a range of qualitative research techniques and materials. In so doing, all students will then be able to undertake an initial preparation of their thesis topic.

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Students will form preferably interdisciplinary groups and will prepare a paper on a research or policy issue. Each group will be supervised by one or two instructors. In addition to the final report at the end of the semester, the group will be required to submit a minimum of 1 progress report halfway through the semester.

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Students will form preferably interdisciplinary groups and will prepare a paper on a research or policy issue. Each group will be supervised by one or two instructors. In addition to the final report at the end of the semester, the group will be required to submit a minimum of 1 progress report halfway through the semester.

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A brief history of international environmental regulation; varieties of international environmental agreements (IEAs); the concept of the -international- in IEAs; international environmental regulatory institutions; why is there no World Environmental Organisations; the concept of the global in global environmental change; the concept of crisis in -global environmental crisis-; varieties of global environmentalism; discourses of the earth; global environmental movements; linking the local and the global; sustainability and development on a global scale.

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The course will analyze the contemporary Middle Eastern affairs through the study of processes of state and nation formation, social and economic changes in region, the impact of religion and the role of the military, and political and economic crises, regional and international conflicts and their domestic effects in the Middle East in the 20th century.

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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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This course focuses on the analysis of various historical forms of the state based on the views of different schools of thought. Also, a considerable part of the course dwells upon the modern debates on the controversial aspects and functions of the same phenomenon.

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