PSC380.33 Political Thought II

This course focuses on the emergence and characteristics of modern politics and the modern state. We shall explore the development and the various facets of the modern state through the writings of such major thinkers as Niccolo Macchiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Friederich Hegel and Karl Marx. (POLS 3316)

What is politics and how does relate to living together in a politically ordered society? This course explores the nature and meaning of politics, political community and political knowledge through the historical experience of Greek city-state, the republican and imperial traditions of Rome, and the relationship between religion and politics up until the birth of the modern state. (POLS 3315)

Ideologies originated in the modern era. The focus of this course is the study of this ideological age through the analysis of ideologies that have had a shaping impact on our world. We shall, therefore, explore the meaning, the assumptions and the core themes of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism fascism, religious fundamentalism and democracy in a comparative context. POLS 4311)

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of over half a century-old relationship going back to the basic legal documents of the association between Turkey and European Economic Community. The analyses on the associate status, its legal bases and its institutions are followed by analyses on Turkey?s full membership application in 1987, its candidacy status, reaffirmed by the 1999 Helsinki European Council and the membership negotiations between Turkey and the EU, which began effectively in 2005. The focus of the course is the recent relationship between the parties, which took a different course after the Helsinki Summit in 1999. (EUR 3411)

Course seeks to provide an account of Turkish-Greek relations. Begins by looking at the experience of cohabitation under Ottoman rule and the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalisms. Traces the evolution of relations from the Ataturk/Venizelos period through the Cold War up until the 1990s. Also examines the impact of domestic developments in each country on bilateral relations, the minority question, Cypress, the Aegean, and the role of the EU. (POL 3513/2513)

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the foreign relations of the EU. Significant theoretical concepts such as “soft power”, “hard power”, conditionality, internationalization, regionalism, Europeanization, interdependence will be introduced. In addition, the lectures will draw attention to the complex nature of external relations of the European Union due to historical differences between member states’ foreign policies, colonial legacies of some, size and geographical location of the recent members. The lecture will then focus on the indirect mechanisms of EU external action due to this multifaceted complexity. (EUR 4331)

This course serves as an introduction to International Relations theory. While it aims to expand your appreciation and understanding of the theories developed to explain basic nature of the discipline, the course’s objectives includes also the development of oral, written and research skills of the students. (POL 4410)

This course aims to familiarize students with the factors that explain political behavior. The course is composed of three parts: the first part elaborates on the cultural approach to the formation of political interests and identities which shape political behavior; the second one will focus on the different existing theories in political science to explain voting behavior; the last part concentrates on the most significant political institutional determinants of voting behavior – party and electoral systems. (POLS 4532)

Political sociology is concerned with, above all, power relations in the social, political, and economic spheres. As such, we deal with different centers of power, both within the national unit and transnationally. This course introduces you to state structures, class structures and global structures. We will cover concepts such as power, representation, association, social capital, citizenship, collective action and issues such as state development, democratization, ‘old’ and ‘new’ social movements, and global networks. Equally crucial to this course is the understanding of interactions between the society and polity. (POL 3482)

In this course the evolution of the European integration process after the 2nd World War will be focused on. Firstly the reasons of the establishment of the European communities (European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community, EURATOM) will be discussed. The ups and downs of the European integration process will be analysed, such as establishment of the Customs Union, the Empty Chair Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise. The reasons of the slowing down of the integration process in the 1970s and increasing dynamism in the 1980s especially with the Single European Act (SEA) will be explored. The establishment process of the single market and single currency (Euro) will be evaluated. The effects of the end of the Cold War on Europe and the transformation of European Community (EC) to the European Union (EU) will be analysed. The enlargement process of the EU towards the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and its institutional and political impacts on the EU will be discussed. Lastly the reforms in the institutions of the EU, decision-making mechanisms and external relations of the EU which were introduced by the Lisbon Treaty will be analysed. (EUS 3331/EUR 2331)