Department of International Relations

History of Political Thought II(RI202)

Content
Course Code Course Name Semester Theory Practice Lab Credit ECTS
RI202 History of Political Thought II 4 3 3 0 3 4
Prerequisites
Admission Requirements
Language of Instruction
Course Type Compulsory
Course Level Bachelor Degree
Course Instructor(s) Tolga BİLENER tbilener@gmail.com (Email)
Assistant
Objective This course focuses on describing the main schools of thought and the
fundamentals works that provide the references and concepts of political reflection from the French Revolution to contemporary times. It discusses the
reflections of the great authors, thinkers and practitioners of political life, as well as
cardinal notions related to the exercise of power: sources of legitimacy, organization
and the ends of power. If the history of political ideas is necessarily interested in
political theories, it also aims to demonstrate the complexity of their
conditions of production, circulation and dissemination in society. She enlightens
political and social uses, since political statements are never detached
of the concrete reality of the exercise of power
Content Cf. Weekly Plan
Course Learning Outcomes The students will be able to,
1. Understand modern political thinking from the Enlightenment to today
2. Apprehend the socio-economic and political conditions of the emergence of political thinking
3. Comprehend how political thinking is used in political practice
Teaching and Learning Methods Presentations, Q&A, Discussion
References This course focuses on describing the main schools of thought and the works
fundamentals that provide the references and concepts of political reflection to
from the French Revolution to contemporary times. He discusses the
reflections of the great authors, thinkers and practitioners of political life, as well as
cardinal notions related to the exercise of power: sources of legitimacy, organization
and the ends of power. If the history of political ideas is necessarily interested in
political theories, it also aims to demonstrate the complexity of their
conditions of production, circulation and dissemination in society. She enlightens
political and social uses, since political statements are never detached
of the concrete reality of the exercise of power
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Weekly Contents
Theory Topics
Week Weekly Contents
1 Introduction
2 The Enlightenment: Montesquieu
3 The Enlightenment: Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau
4 End of History or Universal History: Hegel and Kant
5 The Birth of America: from Thomas Paine to A. de Tocqueville
6 New Economy, New Political Dynamics: from Saint-Simon to Marx
7 Chinese political thought: from Mao to Xi
8 Decolonization and the Sub-continent: Jennah, Gandhi, Nehru, Majumdar
9 Mid-term exam
10 How to create a state: Sionism from utopia to reality
11 Political thinking in the Arab World: Panarabism, Nasserism, Muslim Brotherhood
12 Anti-occident or Extra-occident: Eurasianism according to A. Dugin
13 The return of populism: from Peron to Orban
14 General assesment
Practice Topics
Week Weekly Contents
Assessment System
Contribution to Overall Grade
  Number Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade 1 40
Contribution of final exam to overall grade 1 60
Toplam 2 100
In-Term Studies
  Number Contribution
Assignments 0 0
Presentation 0 0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) 0 0
Project 0 0
Laboratory 0 0
Other Applications 0 0
Quiz 0 0
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 0 0
Relation of Proficiency
No Program Learning Outcomes Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
ECTS
Activities Number Period Total Workload
Class Hours 14 3 42
Working Hours out of Class 1 30 30
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) 1 15 15
Final Examinations (including preparation) 1 13 13
Total Workload 100
Total Workload / 25 4,00
Credits ECTS 4
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