ECTS - American Foreign Policy
American Foreign Policy (IR510) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| American Foreign Policy | IR510 | General Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Social Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Question and Answer, Problem Solving, Team/Group. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | - to examine the historical determinants of American foreign policy - to investigate the current unfolding of the American global hegemony |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | The development of American foreign policy in the twentieth century, during and after the Cold War, Turkish American Relations -Cold War, a new geopolitics. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | A general introduction to the course | |
| 2 | Who won the Cold War? | Ikenberry, 625-36. |
| 3 | American National Security Concept and the Start of the Cold War | Ikenberry, 140-167. |
| 4 | Cold war | Bostanoğlu 2008, Morales 1994 |
| 5 | After the Cold War | Leffler and Legro 2011, Ikenberry 1996, Ikenbery 2001, ch. 7. |
| 6 | End of American Hegemony? | Nye 2006, Nye 2010, Mann 2004 |
| 7 | American-European Relations | Moore and Vaudagna 2003 |
| 8 | Visa exam | |
| 9 | Turkish American Relations – Cold War | Karpat 2012 |
| 10 | Post– Cold War Turkish American Relations | Gilbert 2004, |
| 11 | Turkish American Relations and the Middle East | Gilbert 2004 |
| 12 | A new geopolitics | Brzezinski 2012. |
| 13 | Student presentations | |
| 14 | Student presentations | |
| 15 | Review | |
| 16 | Final exam |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. John Ikenberry (ed), American Foreign Policy Theoretical Essays, (New York: Harper Collins), 1996. |
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| Other Sources | 2. • Burcu Bostanoğlu, Türkiye-Amerikan İlişkilerinin Politikası, (Ankara: İmge), 2008. |
| 3. • Frank Ninkovich, “The New Empire,” The Imperial Moment içinde, (ed) Kimberly Kagan, (Cambridge: Harvard UP), 2010. | |
| 4. • Ikenberry, “The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos,” Foreign Affairs, 75:3 (1996), 79-91. | |
| 5. • Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, (Princeton: Princeton UP), 2001. | |
| 6. • Joseph Nye, “The Future of American Power,” Foreign Affairs, 2010. | |
| 7. • Joseph Nye, “Transformational Leadership and US Grand Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, 2006. | |
| 8. • Kemal Karpat, Türk Dış Politikası Tarihi, (İstanbul: Timaş), 2012. | |
| 9. • Mann, “Delusions of Empire: Recent Neo-Conservative and Neo-Liberal Writings on American Foreign Policy,” Socio-Economic Review, 2 (2004), 391-404. | |
| 10. • Marc Jason Gilbert, “Fatal Amnesia: American Nation-Building in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq,” Journal of Third World Studies, 21:2 (2004), 13- 43. | |
| 11. • Melvyn P. Leffler & Jeffrey W. Legro (eds), In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11, (New York, Cornell University Press), 2011. | |
| 12. • Morales, “US Intervention and the New World Order: Lessons from Cold War and Post-Cold War Cases,” Third World Quarterly, 15:1 (1994), 77-101. | |
| 13. • R. Lavrence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, The American Century in Europe, (Ithaca: Cornell UP), 2003. | |
| 14. • Robert O. Keohane, “Hegemony and After,” Foreign Affairs, 2012. | |
| 15. • Rosenau, “Illusions of Power and Empire,” History and Theory, 44 (2005), 73-87. | |
| 16. • Stratfor, “The Geopolitics of the US, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire,” | |
| 17. • Zgibniew Brzezinsky, Stratejik Vizyon: Amerika ve Küresel Güç Buhranı, (İstanbul: Timaş) 2012. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Toplam | 2 | 60 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 60 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 40 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Develop understanding of translation theories, concepts and history, and their application to the processes used in translating | |||||
| 2 | Develop critical knowledge and understanding of current issues, European Union and international relations, law and technical issues in terms of translation studies | |||||
| 3 | Detect, define, formulate and solve the problems to be encountered in translation process | |||||
| 4 | Acquire the skills of translation analysis, criticism and hermeneutics | |||||
| 5 | Develop critical understanding of international affairs and cultural studies regarding to profession of translation | |||||
| 6 | Improve skills of research techniques, use CAT tools, databases and other printed and electronic devices and sources efficiently | |||||
| 7 | Develop efficient individual and group working skills, build self-confidence for taking responsibility and acquire powerful communication skills | |||||
| 8 | Build awareness for life-long learning; to catch the developments in science and technology and sustain continuous personal development | |||||
| 9 | Acquire knowledge on ethical and professional issues in translation | |||||
| 10 | Build awareness about project management and the rights of employees and the legal consequences of translation and interpreting applications. | |||||
| 11 | Build awareness about the universal and societal dimensions of translation studies and gather information about the problems of the contemporary world | |||||
| 12 | Improve skills to use source and target languages fluently in presentations and academic studies | |||||
| 13 | Acquire knowledge on terminology management and global translation quality standards at a professional level | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||