PSC380.4 International Political Economy

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)

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)