This course aims to introduce the students the main theoretical and historical approaches/debates in international politics by analyzing the major issues and related topics.
Learning Outcomes of the Course
1.To be able to think critically about international politics.
2.To recognize central concepts in world politics.
3.To examine the political, economic, and ideological factors that shape international politics.
4.To use conceptual tools to study patterns and issues in world politics.
5.To analyze substantive issues of relations among states in the contemporary world.
6.To evaluate international events by employing theoretical tools.
7.To interpret and comment on major world affairs.
8.To recognize the main reasons and implications of major issues in international politics.
Robert O. Keohane, “International Institutions, ” in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 119-126.
Michael W. Doyle, "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs," in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp.83-95.
Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy Is What States Make of It," in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 61-68.
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" in Art and Jervis, International Politics, pp. 395-410.
Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Assessment methodology is explained in the “assessment” section of this syllabus.
CONTENT AND STYLE GUIDELINES FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
All enrolled students of the course will choose a subject/topic for analysis.
Check the content of this course (from the syllabus) and state your opinion on “which issues of this course (such as power, security, environment, human rights…) best matches with your assigned issue/topic”? Why?
Explain your assignment issue/topic briefly.
Analyze and explain the importance and impact of this issue in terms of the international politics?
Analyze the actors that have been involved in and explain their impact or how they were influenced.
Find an opinion-column from a newspaper about your assignment issue and explain/summarize it briefly (maximum one page of the total assignment). Please print and attach also the column to the end of your assignment paper.
Assignment format:
Min. 10 pages (including the cover page and the bibliography)
Use references and attach a bibliography
Page Setup: A4
Line Spacing: 1,5
Paper Margins: 2,5 (on each side)
Fonts: Time New Roman (12)
Assignments should be submitted latest by the mid-term exam date. Any late submission will not be tolerated.
Bring your assignment to the mid-term exam and also send to gokay.ozerim@yasar.edu.tr . Please be careful about the deadlines and the assignment format. Any late submission will not be tolerated and the assignment will not be evaluated in case of a late submission.
Present your report in the classroom.
Assessment Grid for the Assignments.
Quality of the paper (including related literature, updated information, content design)
Final Grades will be determined according to the Yaşar University Associate Degree, Bachelor Degree and Graduate Degree Education and Examination Regulation.
