COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall/Spring

Prerequisites	None
Course Language
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	-
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	Öğr. Gör. Dr. SITKI EGELİ
Assistant(s)	Araş. Gör. Zehra Funda SAVAŞ

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Acquire a general knowledge and understanding of international security’s principle issues, problems, dilemmas and challenges Start analyzing those issues and challenges using objective and critical lenses Develop their own opinions, interpretations, perspectives regarding those issues Start contemplating their suggested solutions in response to the challenges Develop better understanding of the security perspectives, positions, attitudes and policies of leading international actors Begin making projections on new security threats and risks likely to be encountered by the international community in coming years
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: Course objectives, content, methodology	Presentation and overview of the course.
2	Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations-I: understanding International Security, importance of paradigms, Realism	Browning Ch1 (p.1-3), Ch2 (p.9-17); Browning Ch3 (p.18-25); Hough Ch2 (p.12-23); Stephen M. Walt, “What would a Realist world have looked like?”, Foreign Policy, 8 January 2016.
3	Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations-II: International Security as seen by Realism, Liberalism, Critical theories	Hough Ch.2 (p.12-23); Stephen M. Walt, “How to get a B.A. in International Relations in 5 Minutes?”, Foreign Policy, 19 May 2014.
4	Security regimes, international organizations, collective security, United Nations	Browning Ch3 (p.26-32), Ch4 (p.33-46); “Colombia says U.N. staff dancing with rebels distorts peace mission”, Reuters, 4 January 2017.
5	Human security: natural resources, environment, economic security, migration	Browning Ch6 (p.62-76), Ch7 (p.77-85), Ch8 (p.91-98); Matteo Fagotto, “West Africa is being swallowed by the sea”, Foreign Policy, 21 October 2016; Keith Johnson, “The Meltdown of the Global Order”, Foreign Policy, 23 July 2015; Kristin Lord, “Here Come the Young”, Foreign Policy, 12 August 2016.
6	Changing Face of Conflict (1): civil/ethnic conflicts, “New War”, failed states	Hough Ch8 (p.104-118); Browning Ch5 (p.47-54).
7	Changing Face of Conflict (2): technological warfare, private militaries, arms trade.	Browning Ch5 (p.58-61); Hough Ch10 (p.133-149); “The queen and her drones”, The Economist, 9 July 2016; “Emirates secretly sends Colombian mercenaries to Yemen fight”, The New York Times, 25 November 2015; “Making a killing”, balkaninsight.com, 21 July 2016.
8	Midterm exam
9	Military Security – I: European security before, during, after Cold War	Dmitri Trenin, “The revival of the Russian military”, Foreign Affairs, 18 April 2016; Julia Ioffe, “The end of the end of the Cold War”, Foreign Policy, 21 December 2016; “NATO flexes its muscle memory”, The Economist, 30 August 2014; “If a NATO member comes under attack – Article of Faith”, The Economist, 1 July 2015.
10	Military Security –II: Asia-Pacific	“Special report: China’s Place in the World”, The Economist, 2 December 2010; Pete Cobus, “Conflict and Diplomacy on the High Seas”, Voice of America; Peter Navarro, “Crouching Tiger”, World Affairs, Winter 2016, p85-92; “Russia and China – An Uneasy Friendship”, The Economist, 9 May 2015; “Small reefs, big problems”, The Economist, 25 July 2015.
11	Military Security –III: Weapons of Mass Destruction	Melissa Gillis, Disarmament – A Basic Guide, 3rd ed., p.17-27, 39-49; “Full Circle: Chlorine Now Chemical Weapon of Choice in Syria”, Associated Press, 20 April 2015; “Nuclear Weapons – The Unkicked Addiction”, The Economist, 7 March 2015; “The New Nuclear Age”, The Economist, 7 March 2015; Seth Baum, “What Trump means for global catastrophic risk”, thebulletin.org, 9 December 2016.
12	Terrorism, wars of faith	Browning Ch9 (s.104-117); “Spreading its tentacles”, The Economist, 4 July 2015; “Islamic State Extends Reach as It Suffers Defeats”, The Wall Street Journal, 5 July 2016; Raphael Minder, “Crackdowns on free speech rise across a Europe wary of terror”, The New York Times, 24 February 2016; Sylvie Kauffmann, “Europe’s New Normal”, The New York Times, 23-24 January 2016.
13	Cyber security	Alper Başaran, “Turkey under cyber fire”, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Spring 2017, pp.95-102; “U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of combat”, The New York Times, 24 April 2016; “UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval“, The Washington Post, 16 July 2017; “A worm in the centrifuge”, The Economist, 30 September 2010; “Something Wrong With Our Chips Today”, The Economist, 7 April 2011; “Complex Flame malware targets Middle East”, Jane’s Defence Weekly, 6 June 2012; “Cyber Warfare – Hype and Fear”, The Economist, 8 December 2012; Gordon Corera, “How France’s TV5 was almost destroyed by Russian hackers”, BBC News, 10 October 2016; David E. Sanger, “U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace”, The New York Times, 19 September 2015.
14	Shape of future: new concerns, new risks, new conflicts Deadline for submittal of written assignments (homework)	Stephen M. Walt, “What Will 2050 Look Like?”, Foreign Policy, 12 May 2015; Loren Thompson, “Gene Wars”, The Forbes, 29 January 2016; Seth Baum, “Stopping killer robots and other future threats”, thebulletin.org, 22 February 2015; Goug Beason, “Directed Energy: The Next Revolution”, thecipherbrief.com, 22 December 2016: Brian Cox explains why he thinks we’ll never find aliens”, Huffington Post, 10 October 2016.
15	Final exam (TBA)
16	Review of the Semester

Course Notes/Textbooks

This course does not have a specific book. Yet, certain parts and chapters from the following two books would be used frequently:

Christopher S. Browning, International Security – A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2013.

Peter Hough, Shahin Malik, Andrew Moran, Bruce Pilbeam, International Security Studies – Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2015.

In addition, there will be a large number of weekly reading assignments comprising articles, manuscripts, reports and news stories drawn from a large variety of journals, periodicals, magazines and newspapers. A tentative listing of reading assignments could be found under the Weekly Subjects entry above. The listed reading material could be modified and updates throughout the semester. Therefore, students will be expected to visit the course’s Blackboard page at least once a week, so as to check and download the assigned reading for the upcoming lecture.

Suggested Readings/Materials

Honesty and trust are the most fundamental pillars of learning and are necessary foundation for success and academic freedom in a university. Hence, any behavior that jeopardizes the learning environment by violating the rules of academic honesty will not be tolerated or condoned. Violations of academic honesty include but are not limited to cheating or facilitating cheating, looking or attempting to look at another student's answers or allowing others to copy one's answers, copying other student’s in-class or take-home exam answers or letting others use take-home exam answers, using "cheat sheet," having someone else prepare the written assignment or homework or letting others use one’s homework/term project/paper, assistance of another person in preparation of a tem paper/homework/project if not allowed by the instructor, ordering/purchasing term projects or homework or other assignments, signing in place of another student using their name/signature/student id number, plagiarism, showing the work of another as one's own, not properly citing an earlier own work, submitting the same homework/paper/term project in one more one course if not allowed by the instructor, inaccurately or inadequately citing sources including those from the Internet.

Violations of academic honesty could result in disciplinary action, as stated in the "Student Disciplinary Rules and Regulation" of the University. http://www.ieu.edu.tr/en/bylaws/type/read/id/13 and http://kariyer.ieu.edu.tr/en/bylaws/type/read/id/81 . By enrolling in the University, each student is assumed to have read the rules and regulations regarding academic dishonesty, and lack of knowledge of this policy is not an acceptable defense.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	20
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	10
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade	1	40
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	13	3
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	22
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms	1	22
Final Exams	1	24
		Total	155

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	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		X
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