Course Name | Foreign Policy Analysis |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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PSIR 555 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | The main objective of this advanced course is to critically analyze various theoretical perspectives which focus on foreign policy formulation and implementation processes, actors that play a role in these processes and foreign policy instruments. The course focuses on political, economic, institutional, social and psychological/ psychoanalytical dimensions of foreign policy by considering domestic and international factors. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This advanced course examines the capacity of states to meet their economic and political foreign policy goals. Furthermore, it critically evaluates the relationship between human rights, foreign policy, and diplomacy. |
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Supportive Courses | X | |
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Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introducing foreign policy analysis: Differences between domestic and foreign policy, Why and how do we do foreign policy analysis? | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 1 |
2 | External and Internal Sources of Foreign Policy: Structure and Agency debate, Levels of Analysis problem | Walter Carlsnaes (1992) “The Agency-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy Analysis”, International Studies Quarterly 36(3): 245-270. |
3 | International System and National Power | Seckin Baris Gulmez (2016): Turkish foreign policy as an anomaly: revisionism and irredentism through diplomacy in the 1930s, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 44, no.1, p. 30-44 |
4 | Rational decision-making models | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 14 |
5 | Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral approaches | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 7 |
6 | Realism and foreign policy | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 2 |
7 | Liberalism and foreign policy | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 3 |
8 | Social theories I: Constructivism & Marxism | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 4; Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis, Duke Uni. Press. |
9 | Midterm Exam | |
10 | Social theories II: English School | Barry Buzan (2014) An introduction to the English school of international relations: the societal approach. Polity Press, Cambridge. |
11 | Ethical foreign policy | Smith, Hadfield & Dunne, Chapter 22 |
12 | Diplomacy | Berridge, Chapters 7, 9 & 10 by Kissinger, H. (1994) Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition by. New York: Simon & Schuster, Chapters 1,2,3 |
13 | Public Diplomacy | Ho, E.L.E.; McConnell, F.. Progress in Human Geography, 1 April 2019, 43(2):235-255 |
14 | Concluding Remarks | |
15 | Review | |
16 | Review |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, Timothy Dunne (eds.) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Morton H. Halperin, Priscilla A. Clapp and Arnold Kanter. Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy, 2nd edition. G. R. Berridge. Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
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Midterm | 1 | 40 |
Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 60 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 7 | 91 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | |||
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Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 36 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 50 | |
Total | 225 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and use them competently. | X | ||||
2 | To be able to evaluate critically the relationships between various factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture. | X | ||||
3 | To be able to determine and question the theoretical and empirical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature. | X | ||||
4 | To be able to identify the political and cultural conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnicity, gender and religion at national and international levels. | |||||
5 | To be able to gather and analyze data by using scientific research methods. | |||||
6 | To be able to analyze and evaluate the historical continuity and changes observed in the relations between the actors and institutions of national and international politics. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to present individual research and contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations in written, oral, and visual forms. | X | ||||
8 | To be able to take responsibility in generating solutions to the problems that arise in relation to the politics in daily life. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to determine the institutional and political instruments for conflict resolution in domestic and international politics. | X | ||||
10 | To be able to prepare a thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria. | |||||
11 | To be able to follow new research and developments in Political Science and International Relations and participate the debates in academic meetings through a foreign language. | X | ||||
12 | To be able to have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of gathering, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations. | X |
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