PSC380.43 International Organizations

This course serves as an introduction to International Organizations. The role of the International Organizations within the current world is very significant to understand better the dynamics of the discipline of International Relations, taking the complex interdependence of the world politics into account. The course?s objectives include also the development of oral, written and research skills of the students. SU students may not take both this course and PSC 353. SU IR majors can count this course as an International Law and Organizations topic concentration course. (POL 4418)

This course offers an introduction to the literature on neoliberalism, globalization and global cities. A particular emphasis is placed on the situation of Istanbul during the neoliberal globalization process. (GEP 2030)

This course aims to analyze and critically assess various forms of exclusion, discrimination and obstacles to women’s participation in the political sphere. We will discuss how and why politics is gendered as well as the efforts in making this exclusion explicit and changing it in the direction of better representation and more participation in social and political life. Thus, we will analyze women’s participation in politics as well as the politics of women’s issues. Students will gain an understanding of these issues within a broader theoretical framework of gender inequality, with a special focus on the obstacles to women’s equal participation in political and social life in Turkey. (POLS 4144)

This course focuses on the issues and matters in Turkey’s foreign policies. The basic issues that have been in the agenda of Turkish foreign policy since the end of Cold War will be critically discussed. These issues include: the changing nature of Turkish foreign policy after the end of the cold war; Turkey’s policies toward the Middle Eastern, Caucasian and Central Asian countries, Turkey-EU relations, Turkey-US relations, Turkey-Russia relations; the Kurdish issue in Turkish foreign policy, the nature of decision making in Turkish foreign policy; the recent debates on the neo-Ottomanism and Islam in Turkish foreign policy formulations. Counts as an elective for SU IR majors or a topic concentration course in International Security and Diplomacy. (POLS 3824)

This course maps the important concepts and issues of international economics in relation to political processes. It also examines the influence of economic transactions among the nation-states, nation-states’ trans-national companies, and among the trans-national companies themselves. (POL 4401)

This political theory course investigates various different conceptions of democracy to clarify several contested understandings and is designed to provide a critical introduction to the main theories of democracy. It examines: 1) the classical conception of democracy, investigating in detail the institutions, ideals, and critiques of Athenian democracy; 2) the liberal conception of democracy and its critiques; 3) deliberative democracy and its critiques.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of regional development by giving a thorough analysis on the historical evolution of regions and regionalization in the European Union. The focus of the course is the EU Regional Policy, its instruments and how Turkey adapts to this policy. The course introduces students to concepts such as regionalism, regionalization, devolution, decentralization, delegation, deconcentration and established understandings about regional development. (EUR 4442)

One of the most important policies of the European Union is the enlargement policy. Enlargement has been a political goal for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) since its foundation and the signing of the Treaty of Rome (1957). This course looks at the Enlargement Policy in historical perspective in order to predict further possible enlargements accordingly. It is of utmost importance that over the years between the accession of the UK, Denmark and Ireland in 1973 until the Central-Eastern and Southern European enlargement in 2004, the enlargement policy itself went through fundamental changes due to the nature of the European Union and world politics at large. (EUR 4512)

This course considers three approaches to the study of nationalism: Ethno-symbolist, Modernist, and Constructivist. Students will study these forms of nationalism: ethnic, civic, and rascism and also examine nationalism and multiculturalism. (POLS 2511)

This course is an introduction to the very large history and philosophy of social sciences. In the development of the “scientific way of thinking”, which is one of the most distinctive feature of modern western civilization, the role of social sciences is no less importrant than developments in natural sciences. In this course we will focus on theoretical ideas in the history of social science through the discussion of a limited number of thinkers and topics, in order to retrace the intellectual development of our civilization. (POLS 4723)