| Code: OSDULS 306 |
Course Title: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 |
ECTS: 3 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
3 / Spring Semester |
| Level of Course |
1st Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Optional |
| Department |
ORTAK SEÇMELİ DERSLER BÖLÜMÜ |
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites |
None |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Teaching Period |
14 Weeks |
| Name of Lecturer |
KIVILCIM ERKAN (kivilcimerkan@nevsehir.edu.tr) |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
KIVILCIM ERKAN, |
| Language of Instruction |
Turkish |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| To explain the basic knowledge about the issues, problems, institutions, concepts, and approaches in International Relations
To analyze globalization and the problems of terrorism, poverty, climate change, justice, and refugees
To analyze the emergence of the international system, its historical development, wars, and threats to the system today.
to understand the importance of organizations in the international system, to understand their role in ensuring economic order, peace, and security |
| Course Contents |
| Basic concepts, actors and approaches of International Relations, globalization and the problems of globalization, international system and its emergence, major wars in the international system, international economic order, international organizations, international peace and security and international non-governmental organizations. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction to International Relations (basic concepts, actors and approaches) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 2 |
Globalization and the problems of globalization (climate crisis, migration, global terrorism, cultural globalization, global economic crises and regionalization) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 3 |
Globalization and the problems of globalization (climate crisis, migration, global terrorism, cultural globalization, global economic crises and regionalization) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 4 |
International System and the State (Westphalia state understanding and current threats) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 5 |
Wars and the International System from the 20th Century to the Present (The First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the international system in the 21st century) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 6 |
Wars and the International System from the 20th Century to the Present (The First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the international system in the 21st century) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 7 |
Review and Preparation for the Mid-term Exam |
Group work and Q&A |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
International Economic Order (Bretton Woods, GATT, WTO and global economic crises) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 10 |
International Economic Order (Bretton Woods, GATT, WTO and global economic crises) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 11 |
International Organizations, Peace and Security (UN, International Criminal Court and NATO) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 12 |
International Organizations, Peace and Security (UN, International Criminal Court and NATO) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 13 |
International Regional Organizations (European Union, Council of Europe, ASEAN, NAFTA and APEC) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 14 |
International Non-Governmental Organizations (Civil Society, Multinational Corporations and anti-globalization movements) |
Lecture and Q&A |
| 15 |
Review and Q&A for the Final Exam |
Group work and Q&A |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
E. Fuat Keyman ve Betül Yüce Dural (ed.), Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş, Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2019 |
| 2 |
Steve Smith, John Baylis, ve Patricia Owens, Küreselleşen Dünya Siyaseti- Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş, Küre Yayınları, 2020 |
| 3 |
Faruk Sönmezoğlu, Hakan Güneş ve Erhan Keleşoğlu, Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş, Der Yayınları, 2020 |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| designated textbook |
