Turkey in World Politics(RI436)
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theory | Practice | Lab | Credit | ECTS |
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RI436 | Turkey in World Politics | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Prerequisites | |
Admission Requirements |
Language of Instruction | French |
Course Type | Elective |
Course Level | Bachelor Degree |
Course Instructor(s) | |
Assistant | |
Objective | The aim of this course, designed for Erasmus students, is to explain Turkey's position in international politics, its foreign policy and relations with international system’s divergent players |
Content | See. Weekly Program |
Course Learning Outcomes |
After completing this course, students will be able to: - Learn Turkey’s position in international politics - Apprehend fundamental dynamics of Turkey’s Foreign Policy - Understand Turkey’s relations with other players of the international system - Discuss Turkey’s regional and global policies |
Teaching and Learning Methods | Lecture, debates, Q&A |
References |
BARTOL, Vasili V. Histoire des Turcs d’Asie centrale, Paris, Procupine, 1989. BENGIO, Ofra. Turkish-Israeli Relationship : Changing Ties of Middle-Eastern Outsiders, Palgrave Macmillan, Londres, 2010. BILLION, Didier. La politique extérieure de la Turquie: une longue quête d’identité, l’Harmattan, Paris, 1997. DAGENAIS, Lucie-France. Les Relations Turquie-Russie (1992-2016) : une géopolitique de l’espace Pontique à nouveau sous la loupe, Observatoire de l’Eurasie, UQAM, Décembre 2016. DEMİR, İdris. Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards the Middle-East Under the Shadow of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. ERŞEN, Emre. Turkey’s Pivot to Eurasia, Routledge, 2019. FULLER, Graham. The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World, US Institute of Peace, 2007. INBAR, Efraim. The Turkish Israeli Entente, King’s College London Mediterranean Studies, Londres, 2001. JABBOUR, Janna. La Turquie : l'invention d'une diplomatie émergente, Paris, CNRS, 2017. JOSSERAN, Tancrède. La nouvelle puissance turque, Paris, Ellipses, 2010. KINZER, Stephen. Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Farrar, 2008. KİRİŞÇİ, Kemal. Turkey and the West: Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance, Washington D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2017. MARCOU, Jean ; BURDY, Jean-Paul. La Turquie à l’heure de l’Europe, Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2008. MARCOU, Jean. La Turquie et ses nouveaux alliés, l’Harmattan, 2019. ÖZKAN, Behlül. From the abode of Islam to the Turkish ‘vatan’ : The making of a national homeland in Turkey, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012. PIERINI, Marc. Où va la Turquie? Carnet d’un observateur européen. Paris, Actes Sud, 2013. PIERINI, Marc. Turkey’s Domestically Driven Foreign Policy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Février 2017. ROUX, Jean Paul. L’Asie centrale: Histoire et Civilisations, Paris, Fayard, 1997. ROUX, Jean-Paul. Histoire des Turcs: Deux Mille Ans de la Pacifique à la Méditerranée, Fayard, Paris, 2000. ROY, Olivier. L’Asie centrale contemporaine, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2010. SLOAT, Amanda. The West’s Turkey Conundrum, Brookings, 2016. STARR, Frederick S. Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland, M. E. Sharpe, London, 2004. TURAN, Ilter. Turkey’s Difficult Journey to Democracy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. |
Theory Topics
Week | Weekly Contents |
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1 | Fundamentals of Turkish Foreign Policy 1 |
2 | Fundamentals of Turkish Foreign Policy 2 |
3 | Turkey-EU Relations: The Accession Process |
4 | Turkey-EU Relations: Greece and the Cyprus Problem |
5 | Turkey-US Relations |
6 | Turkey-Russia Relations |
7 | Turkey-China Relations |
8 | Mid-Term Exam |
9 | Turkey and the Middle East: The Arab World |
10 | Turkey and the Middle East: Iran |
11 | Turkey and the Middle East: Israel |
12 | Turkey’s Relations with the Caucasus and Central Asia |
13 | Turkey-Africa Relations |
14 | Turkey and International Organizations |
Practice Topics
Week | Weekly Contents |
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Contribution to Overall Grade
Number | Contribution | |
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Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 6 | 60 |
Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 40 |
Toplam | 7 | 100 |
In-Term Studies
Number | Contribution | |
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Assignments | 0 | 0 |
Presentation | 0 | 0 |
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 2 | 40 |
Project | 0 | 0 |
Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
Quiz | 4 | 20 |
Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
Reports | 0 | 0 |
Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
Seminar | 0 | 0 |
Other | 0 | 0 |
Toplam | 6 | 60 |
No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
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Class Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Working Hours out of Class | 8 | 6 | 48 |
Assignments | 1 | 16 | 16 |
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 19 | 19 |
Final Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 5 | 5 |
Total Workload | 130 | ||
Total Workload / 25 | 5,20 | ||
Credits ECTS | 5 |