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 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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none |
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 |
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Attendance/Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory | - | - |
Application | - | - |
Field Work | - | - |
Special Course Internship | - | - |
Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
Homework Assignments | 1 | 30 |
Presentation | - | - |
Project | - | - |
Report | - | - |
Seminar | - | - |
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 20 |
Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
Toplam | 4 | 100 |
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 | Acquiring the skills of understanding, explaining, and using the fundamental concepts and methodology of international relations. | X | ||||
2 | Acquiring the skills of analyzing international relations from a theoretical level. | X | ||||
3 | Acquiring the ability to make logical interpretations about the recent either global or national political events. | X | ||||
4 | Acquiring different perspectives on international relations. | X | ||||
5 | Improving the ability to make analyses about the current and future prospects of global and regional actors. | X | ||||
6 | Developing relevant academic and applied research skills in political areas. | X | ||||
7 | To improve the academic writing skills pertaining to the academic area. | X | ||||
8 | To improve the academic presentation skills pertaining to the academic area. | X | ||||
9 | To improve analytical thinking and independent research skills. | X | ||||
10 | Acquiring an open-minded behavior through encouraging critical analysis, interpretation, discussions, and/or continuous learning. | X | ||||
11 | Improving the ability to effectively develop arguments. | X | ||||
12 | Understanding importance of lifelong learning | X |
ECTS/Workload Table
Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | |||
Laboratory | |||
Application | |||
Special Course Internship | |||
Field Work | |||
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 6 | 90 |
Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
Project | |||
Report | |||
Homework Assignments | 1 | 27 | 27 |
Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 40 | 40 |
Total Workload | 177 |