AÄ°T706 - TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY II

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)		 Application
(hours/week)		 Credit ECTS
TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY II AÄ°T706 2nd Semester 3 0 3 10
PrequisitesNone
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Discussion
 
Instructor (s)Prof. Dr. Adnan SOFUOÄžLU 
Course objective1.ComprehendsTheorical framework of Turkish foreign policy and its basic principle, its application in the Atatürk Period; 2- Understands the time course of the WWII, and the Turkish foreign policy-making in relation to the emerging balance of powers; the international treaties and agreements to the Turkish foreign policy 3- Comprehends Turkey?s foreign policy-making aftermath of the WWII and during the Cold War; Turkey?s relations with regional and global actors of politics. 4- Understands Turkey?s foreign policy-making and the factors-in-concern aftermath of the Cold War.  
Learning outcomes
  1. 1- Knows the basic principles of the foreign policies of states and the theoretical framework and the basic principles of Turkish foreign policy;
  2. 2- Knows Turkish foreign policy aftermath of the Lausanne Treaty and of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey (1923-1939 Atatürk Period);
  3. 3- Understands tTurkey?s foreign policy based on balance of power aftermath of the WWII, the blocs of world politics, and their role on the Turkish foreign policy-making process;
  4. 4- Understands Turkey?s problems in the foreign policy field; the issues and the approaches to them from the end of WWII till today;
  5. 5- Understands The meaning of the Cold War; its effects on the balance of world politics and on Turkish foreign politics; Turkey?s participation to the Western Bloc;
  6. 6- Understands The changes of the global politics and regional issues caused by the Cold War and Turkey?s relations with global political actors.
  7. 7- Understands the embodiment of Turkish foreign policy aftermath of the Cold War, political developments within the conducts of governments-in-power
  8. 8- Knows Turkey?s alliances and evaluates them within the conjecture of the time
Course ContentWithin the context of the course, Turkey?s foreign policy after the Atatürk?s period is analyzed within the global developments from the WWII untill today. Basic foreign policy principles are detected and the institutional organization of the Foreign Ministry and its application process of the policies are analyzed.  
ReferencesAKŞİN, Abdulahat, Atatürk?ün Dış Politika İlkeleri ve Diplomasisi,
Ankara, 1991.
ARMAOÄžLU, Fahir, Siyasi Tarih, Ankara, 1975.
Atatürk?ün Milli Dış Politikası, 2 cilt, Kültür Bakanlığı ve Dış İşleri Bakanlığı ortak yayını, Ankara, 1971.
BAYUR, Yusuf Hikmet, Türkiye Devleti?nin Dış Siyasası, Ankara, 1973.
GÖNLÜBOL, Mehmet, Olaylarla Türk Dış Politikası, 1919-1973, Ankara, 1972.
HALE, William, Türk Dış Politikası, 1774-2000, çev. Petek demir,
Ä°stanbul, 2003.
KISSINGER, Henry, Diplomasi, çev. İbrahim H. Kurt, 2.baskı, Ankara, 2004.
LAURABEC, Stephan ve Ian O. Lesser, Türk Dış Politikası, çev. Mustafa
Yıldırım, İstanbul, 2004.
ORAN, Baskın, Türk Dış Politikası, c.I, II, İstanbul, 2001.
SONYEL, Salahi, R., Türk Kurtuluş Savaşı ve Dış Politika, c. I- II, Ankara, 1973.
SOYSAL, İsmail, Türkiye?nin Siyasal Antlaşmaları, Ankara, 1973.
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Atatürk Dönemi Türk Dış Politikasının Genel bir Özeti ve Değerlendirmesi
Week 2Türk Dış Politikası ve İkinci Dünya Savaşı Yılları (1939-1945)
Week 3Soğuk Savaş Başları Batı Bloku Ekseninde Türk Dış Politikası (1945-1952) SSCB ile İlişkiler
Week 4Soğuk Savaş Başları Batı Bloku Ekseninde Türk Dış Politikası (1945-1952)
Week 5Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Türk-Yunan İlişkileri Kıbrıs Sorunu (1945-1960)
Week 6Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Ortadoğu ile İlişkiler (1945-1960)
Week 7Ara Sınav
Week 8Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası. AET (AB)-ABD ve NATO ile İlişkiler (1960-1980)
Week 9Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası SSCB İle İlişkiler (1960-1980)
Week 10Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası Ortadoğu İle İlişkiler (1960-1980)
Week 11Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Türk Dış Politikası Batı İle İlişkiler-AB ve ABD
Week 12Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Türk Dış Politikası: Rusya, Kafkaslar ve Türk Dünyası
Week 13Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Türk Dış Politikası Yunanistan, Balkanlar ve Ortadoğu
Week 14Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Dış Politikasının Genel bir Değerlendirmesi
Week 15Preparation for the final exam
Week 16Final Sınavı

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance140
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments110
Presentation15
Project00
Seminar110
Midterms125
Final exam150
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes050
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes050
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities000
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)1410140
Presentation / Seminar Preparation13030
Project000
Homework assignment22040
Midterms (Study duration)12020
Final Exam (Study duration) 12828
Total Workload33111300

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Develops advanced knowledge on Modern Turkey and Republican history by creative thinking and research in depth. Carries out projects, and invents new and original concepts that provide new ideas to the field.   X 
2. Reaches original results by using the expert knowledge and by analyzing and evaluating new and complex ideas, discussions and developments.  X  
3. Knows the basic sources of history of modern Turkey and their language and properties in the expert level. Analyses and evaluates data from these sources by scientific and technical methods, develops new models, methods and applications.     
4. Evaluates historical events as short, medium and long-term processes and makes consistent inferences for the future.    X 
5. Provides information about the world and European historiography and places Turkish historiography in the world historiography. Evaluates the content of historical information produced by various ecoles of history at expert level.    X
6. Designs and implements projects at advanced level to investigate complex historical problems of history of modern Turkey and Republic. For this purpose organises and manages a multidisciplinary team.  X  
7. Analyzes and develops the norms and rules that dominate the relations in the field of humanities in general and history in particular. Invents new methods and rules and disseminates them by various ways.   X  
8. Makes international and national publications about its field.    X
9. Contributes to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage considering the learned and acquired knowledge and experience in the context of history of modern Turkey and Turkish Republic.   X 
10. Possesses the ability of approaching to various issues of modern Turkish history with methods of contemporary history as well as interdisciplinary methods.  X  
11. Approaches to the refoms and modernising efforts from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, to the domocratic developments and to various issues of Turkish history from the point of view of history and other multi- disciplinary methods and in a critical way   X 
12. Comments on the developing and changing conditions and current issues in the world and produces alternative ideas.    X
13. Has the ability of an interdisciplinary approach to the democratic developments and emerging issues of Turkish history as well as of the discipline of history.     
14. Explains policies and strategies on the global and regional scale.    X

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