Department of International Relations

Turkey in World Politics(RI436)

Course Code Course Name Semester Theory Practice Lab Credit ECTS
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.
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Theory Topics
Week Weekly Contents
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
Contribution to Overall Grade
  Number Contribution
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
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
1 2 3 4 5
Activities Number Period Total Workload
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
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