MAE180.1: Computer-Aided Technical Drawing

SU Center course required for undergraduate students. Turkey is a country full of seeming contradictions. We explore the tensions and opportunities inherent in this complex political and social landscape by introducing key issues in contemporary Turkey and in its regional and global relations. After a brief review of its Ottoman past, we turn to the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923 and Turkey’s ongoing political dynamics: Turkish democratization and challenges to democratic consolidation, including the changing relationship between secularism, the role of the military, and Islam in political life. We will examine Turkey’s tense relationship with the European Union, and its wider strategic and geopolitical role in the region. We will also explore Turkish-US relations and Turkey’s role in NATO, debating the arguments for and against the position that Turkey’s improved ties with Iran, Syria and Russia are beneficial for Turkey’s EU and NATO partners including the United States. In the last part of the course, our focus shifts to issues related to gender, ethnicity and human rights, including ‘the Kurdish question’ and debates about women wearing headscarves in universities. In grappling with these issues and their complexities, we aim to move beyond common stereotypes about Turkey and towards a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of this crucial country. Cross-listed with PSC/SOC 458/PAI 658, with additional work required for graduate students.

Enlargement is one of the most important policy areas of the EU, albeit a controversial one. Closely related to the issue of enlargement is the question of the role of the EU in democratic consolidation. This course aims to understand the impact of the EU on domestic processes within the context of democratization. Enlargement will be analyzed in waves, starting with the Southern expansion in the 1980s, and concluding with a look at the EU itself in terms of the impact of these expansions on the future and identity of the organization (EUR 3416).

Theories regarding conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict peace-building through an examination of case studies. (POLS 2346)

Common Agricultural Policy is the most integrated of all EU policies. This course will begin with analyzing the historical background of CAP from 1960 onwards and touch upon the reform process after 1990. EU decision- making institutions involved in shaping the CAP will be scrutinized. The course will examine the two pillars of CAP: Single Payment Scheme known as Pillar I and Rural Development Regulation and evaluate CAP benefits and costs for member states. As CAP takes a large share of the EU budget, it is important to investigate the financial aspects of the CAP. Moreover, regarding the international trade, interaction of the WTO and CAP reform and the impacts of the CAP on the trade with developing countries will be analyzed. This course will also elaborate the integration of environmental objectives and measures into the CAP and new reforms in relation to climate change mitigation and adaptation. An emphasis will be put on EU enlargement and its implications for agricultural policy and rural development and Turkey’s position vis-a-vis the accession negotiations. Finally, challenges in the future of agricultural policy and rural development will be discussed. (EUS 4415)

This course aims to offer new directions in the study of ‘security’, to provide a broad survey of some of the theoretical and contemporary issues in global and regional security from its Cold War past to its post-Cold War present and opening up alternative ways of thinking about the future. SU IR majors can count this course as an International Security and Diplomacy topic concentration course or an IR elective. SU Global Security Studies minor can count it as a “List A” course. (POL 4772)

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 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)