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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Spring
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Required
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s)
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To explain the fundamental EU enlargement theories (rationalism and constructivism)
  • To explain the dynamics of the process of enlargement by identifying the main actors and institutions involved
  • To examine Turkey-EU relations in a historical perspective by identifying the key milestones
  • To apply the theories of EU enlargement to Turkey-EU relations and make comparisons with other enlargement rounds
  • To define and analyze the political, legal and official dimensions of Turkey’s EU accession process
Course Description

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction
2 Situating Turkey’s EU accession in EU studies/Reading and Presentation Skills Schimmelfennig, F. and Sedelmeier, U. (2002) ‘Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus, hypotheses, and the state of research’, Journal of European Public Policy 9(4): 500/528.
3 From the Association Agreement 1963 to the Custom Union 1995 Aydın, Mustafa (2003) ‘The Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy, and Turkey’s European Vocation’ The Review of International Affairs 3(2):306-331. - Kabaalioglu (1998) The Custom Union: A final step before Turkey’s Accession to the EU, 113-140 - Arıkan, H. (2003) Turkey and the EU (Ashgate): 59-69 - Hartler, Christina and Sam Laird (1999) The EU Model and Turkey. A Case for Thanksgiving, Journal of World Trade (33) 3, 147-165 - World Bank (2014) Evaluation of the EU-Turkey Customs Union, http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/eca/turkey/tr-eu-customs-union-eng.pdf
4 Eastern Enlargement, Luxemburg 1997 and Helsinki 1999 MüftülerBaç, M. and Mclaren, L. M. (2003) ‘Enlargement preferences and policymaking in the European Union: Impacts on Turkey’, European Integration 25: 17/30 Barnes, I. and Barnes, P. (2007) ‘Enlargement’, in Cini, M. (ed) European Union Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 421/440 Eralp, A. ‘Turkey in the enlargement process: From Luxembourg to Helsinki’
5 From Candidate Status 1999 to the Opening of Accession Talks in 2005 Akçapar, B. (2007) Turkey’s new European era (Rowman and Littlefield): 11/56. Schimmelfennig, Frank (2008), ‘Entrapped again: The way to EU membership negotiations with Turkey’, UCD Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 8, http://www.ucd.ie/dei/wp/WP088Schimmelfennig.pdf
6 The organization and progress of the accession talks - Blockmans (2014) EU-Turkey Relations: Turning vicious circles into virtuos ones, CEPS Policy Brief, 26 March 2014 - Today’s Zaman (2014) Transatlantic Trend: Turkey more willing to re-engage with EU-NATO, 10 September, http://www.todayszaman.com/national_transatlantic-trends-turkey-more-willing-to-re-engage-with-eu-nato_358300.html - International Crisis Group (2014) Coming to terms on an imperfect reality, Europe Report 229, 14 March 2014 - European Commission (2014) Turkey Progress Report 2014, http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2014/20141008-turkey-progress-report_en.pdf - Ministy of EU Affairs (2014a) Turkey’s New European Union Strategy, http://www.abgs.gov.tr/files/pub/turkeys_new_eu_strategy.pdf - Ministry of EU Affairs (2014b) European Union Communication Strategy, http://www.abgs.gov.tr/files/000etkinlikler/2014/10/iletisim_stratejisi_eng_kapak_eklenmis.pdf - European Commission: Understanding Enlargement, http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/publication/enl-understand_en.pdf - Bürgin, Alexander (2013) A missed opportunity in Cyprus to revive talks, Hürriyet Daikly News, 8 April http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/a-missed-opportunity-in-cyprus-to-revive-talks.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44444&NewsCatID=396 - Ugur, M. (2010) Open-Ended Membership Prospect and Commitment Credibility: Explaining the Deadlock in EU–Turkey Accession Negotiations, Journal of Common Market Studies, 4(4): 967-991. - Müftüler Bac (2013) The Future of Europe, Differentiated Integration and Turkey’s role, Istanbul Policy Center, October, http://www.iai.it/pdf/GTE/GTE_C_09.pdf - Ondarza, Nicolai (2013) Strengthening the Core or Splitting Europe. Prospects and Pitfalls of a Strategy of Differentiated Europe, SWP Research Paper, March, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2013_RP02_orz.pdf
7 Europeanisation of Turkey - Tocci, N. (2005) ‘Europeanization in Turkey: Trigger or Anchor for Reform?’, South European Society and Politics 10(1): 7383 - Alpan, Başak and Thomas Diez. (2014) ‘The Devil is in the ‘Domestic’? European Integration Studies and the Limits of Europeanization in Turkey’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 16 (1):1-10. - Börzel, T and D. Soyaltin (2012): ‘Europeanization in Turkey: Stretching a Concept to its Limits?’ KFG Working paper No. 36, Free University Berlin, http://userpage.fu berlin.de/kfgeu/kfgwp/wpseries/WorkingPaperKFG_36.pdf - Bürgin, A. (2014) Strategic Learning, Limited Europeanization: How the Turkish Police Used Twinning to Prepare itself for the Planned New Border Agency, Turkish Studies 15(3), 458-76 - Schimmelfennig, F. (2003) ‘Costs, Commitment and Compliance: The Impact of EU Democratic Conditionality on Latvia, Slovakia and Turkey’, Journal of Common Market Studies 41(3): 495518 - Bürgin, Alexander (2011): Why Turkey is ready for a readmission agreement, Journal of European Public Policy - Baudner, Joerg (2012): The Politics of ‘Norm Diffusion’ in Turkish European Union Accession Negotiations: Why It was Rational for an Islamist Party to be ‘Pro-European’ and a Secularist Party to be ‘Anti-European’, JCMS 2012 Volume 50. Number 6. pp. 922–938
8 Exam I
9 Economical and Political Implications of Turkey’s EU accession (1) - Hughes, Kirsty (2004) Turkey and the EU: Just another enlargement? Exploring the implication of Turkish Accession, Friends of Europe Working Paper, http://www.cdu.de/en/doc/Friends_of_Europe_Turkey.pdf (Section 2) - Ugur, Mehmet (2008) Economic implications of Turkish EU membership: the advantage of tying one’s hand, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18547/1/MPRA_paper_18547.pdf - MüftülerBaç, M. (2004) ‘Turkey’s accession to the European Union: Institutional and Security Challenges’, Perceptions, Autumn: 29-43 (page 33-34) - Mustafa Kutlay, “Is Turkey Drifting Away from the West? An Economic Interpretation,” Turkish Weekly (October 28, 2009)
10 Economical and Political Implications of Turkey’s EU accession (2) - Hughes, Kirsty (2004) Turkey and the EU: Just another enlargement? Exploring the implication of Turkish Accession, Friends of Europe Working Paper, http://www.cdu.de/en/doc/Friends_of_Europe_Turkey.pdf (Section 3) - Müftüler-Bac/Gürsoy, Y. (2010): Is there a Europeanization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Turkish Studies, vol.11, no. 3 - Barysch, K. (2011) Why the EU and Turkey Need to Coordinate Their Foreign Policies, Carnegie, 31 August, http://carnegieendowment.org/2011/08/31/why-eu-and-turkey-need-to-coordinate-their-foreign-policies - Öniş, Z (2014) Turkey and the Arab Revolutions: Boundaries of Regional Power Influence in a Turbulent Middle East, Mediterranean Politics 19(2), 203-219. - New York Times (2014) Turkey’s failed foreign policy, 22 August, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/turkeys-failed-foreign-policy.html?_r=0 - Ömer Taşpınar, “The Rise of Turkish Gaullism: Getting Turkish-American Relations Right,” Insight Turkey, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2011) - Stephen Larrabee, “Turkey’s New Geopolitics,” Survival, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2010), pp. 157 – 180 - Hanna Ojanen and Igor Torbakov, “Is Turkey Emerging as an Independent Regional Power?” Europe’s World (May 12, 2009) - Tarık Oğuzlu, “The Changing Dynamics of Turkey-Israel Relations: A Structural Realist Account,” Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2009), pp. 273 – 288
11 Presentations
12 Presentations
13 Implications of Turkey’s EU membership prospects on European and national identities - Delhey, Jan (2007) Do enlargements make the EU less cohesive? An analysis of trust between EU nationalities, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol 45,2, 253-79 - Baban, Feyzi and Fuat Keyman (2008) Turkey and Postnational Europe: Challenges for the Cosmopolitan Community, Eurpean Journal of Social Theory, 11(1), 107-124 - Parker, Owen (2009), ’Cosmopolitan Europe and the EU-Turkey question: the politics of a common destiny’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 1085-1101 - MacMillan, Cahterine (2010) Which identity for the European Union, http://www.e-ir.info/2010/03/21/which-identity-for-the-eu-implications-of-and-for-turkeys-accession/ - Müftüler-Bac, M. (2011) The EU and Turkey: Democracy, Multiculturalism and European Identity; RECON Online Papers, no. 20 http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_1120.pdf?fileitem=3555451
14 Concluding Remarks - Pierini, Marc and Ülgen, Sinan (2014) A moment of opportunity in the EU-Turkey relations, Carnegi Europe, 10 December, http://carnegieeurope.eu/2014/12/10/moment-of-opportunity-in-eu-turkey-relationship.
15 Exam II
16 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks Book chapters and journal articles (see above), power point presentations
Suggested Readings/Materials News articles published in the national and international press
Useful Websites
1. http://europa.eu (The European Union)
2. http://www.avrupa.info.tr/Delegasyonumuz.html (Delegation of the European Union to Turkey)
3. http://www.mfa.gov.tr (Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
4. http://www.abgs.gov.tr (Turkish General Secretariat for EU Affairs)
5. http://www.ikv.org.tr (Turkey Economic Development Foundation)
6. http://www.cer.org.uk/ (Centre for European ReformCER)
7. http://www.ceps.eu/ (Centre for European Policy Studies – CEPS)
8. http://www.euobserver.com
9. http://www.abhaber.net or http://www.abhaber.com
10. http://www.ecsanet.org (European Community Studies Association)
11. http://www.euractive.com and http://www.euractive.com.tr

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
10
Presentation / Jury
1
15
Project
1
15
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
25
Final Exam
1
25
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
5
75
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
25
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
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
14
3
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
8
Presentation / Jury
1
15
Project
1
15
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
1
15
Final Exams
1
17
    Total
160

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1 To be able to use the advanced theoretical and practical knowledge that the graduates have acquired in the areas of international relations X
2 To be able to examine, interpret data and assess concepts and ideas with the scientific methods in the area of international relations/political science X
3 To take the responsibility as a group team member and as an individual to solve unforeseen and multidimensional problems that are unforeseen in practice X
4 To be able to recognize regional and global issues/problems, and to be able to develop solutions based on research and scientific evidence X
5 To be able to assess the acquired knowledge and skills in the area of international relations/political science critically and to detect learning requirements and to guide learning. X
6 To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of international relations; to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems verbally and in writing to experts and nonexperts. X
7 To be able to interpret theoretical debates regarding relations among factors in global politics such as structures, institutions and culture, to be able to pinpoint the continuities and changes of main dynamics of international relations, X
8 To be able to distinguish the differences between the classical and contemporary theories and to assess their relationship, X
9 To be able to make use of other disciplines that international relations are based upon (political science, law, economics, sociology, psychology, etc.) and to have the basic knowledge of these disciplines. X
10 To be able to keep abreast of current news on international relations, learn a foreign language and to communicate with one’s peers (European language portfolio global scale, level B1) X
11 To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently
12 To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to international relations. X
13 To be able to improve the acquired knowledge, skills and qualifications for personal and social reasons X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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