Undergradute program in Political Science and International Relations:
The program is conducted in Turkish and English. It covers introductory courses in political
science, political theory, political history and international relations as well as various elective
courses. 30 per cent of the courses offered at the department are conducted in English. Below
you can find a list of courses in English:
Political Theory I and II
Comparative Government
Comparative Politics
Vocational English I and II
International Relations I and II
Theory of International Relations
Current Issues in International Relations
Aspects of Regime Transitions
New Perspectives in Turkish Foreign Policy
War and Conflict in International Relations
Diplomatic Correspondence
Advanced English I-II-III
English For Business
Politics and Cinema
Correspondence in English
Aspect of Regime Transitions
POLITICAL THEORY I-II
Political Teories from Antiquity to Modern Ages. The course is designed to enable students to understand political theories of different
periods in their original context . Basic political ideas and assumptions from Perikles top Machiavelli will be examined critically. The
predominant figures in the history of political thought will be evaluated in a comparative and critical perspective
COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT
Political regimes and forms of government; democratic and authoritarian regimes; patterns of representative democracy in capitalist
societies; the political executive: parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential forms and their formation,.
COMPARATIVE POLITICS
This course introduces students to main theories, concepts, approaches, and methods in comparative politics. We will read and discuss both
“classic” and contemporary material drawn from a variety of social science disciplines such as political science, economics, history,
anthropology and sociology. We focus on key comparative concepts such as the state, political culture, social class and class conflict,
political development and modernization, underdevelopment and dependency, and discuss their importance in the field of comparative
politics
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS I
International relations and world politics starting from the start of the 20th century; first and second World Wars, causes and consequences,
the emergence of the Cold War
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS II
International relations since the 1970s, detent process, the ending of the Cold War and its effects, international relations in different regions
of the world, the emergence of a new international system
WAR AND CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Theories of war and conflict, causes of war and conflict, causes international peace, new threats to international security.
VOCATIONAL ENGLISH I
Vasquez : Peace and War / Hugo Grotius / Immanuel Kant / Turkey’s Policy Towards the Middle East during the 1990s / Anarchism /
Socialism / Imperialism / European Integration / Syndicalism / Christian Democracy.
VOCATIONAL ENGLISH II
Vasquez : Peace and War / Hugo Grotius / Immanuel Kant / Turkey’s Policy Towards the Middle East during the 1990s / Anarchism /
Socialism / Imperialism / European Integration / Syndicalism / Christian Democracy / Imperialism.
THEORY OF İNTERNATIONAL RELATİONS
The theory and its various acceptations – the levels-of-analysis / Main traditions and paradigms : Realism and idealism / Theoretical
approaches before the Second World War: E.H. Carr’s criticism to idealism / The marxist-leninist theory of IR / Realism after the Second
World War: Morgenthau, Kennan, Kissinger, Aron / The Scientific School in International Relations and Systemic approaches / The second
inter-paradigm debate / Transnationalism and world society theory / J.N. Rosenau’s contributions to the theories of international relations /
English school of IR and the importance of history in international studies / Structuralist theory of K Waltz : Neo-realism / International
regimes and neo-liberal institutionalism / School of dependence and world-economy model: the neo-marxists / Critical approaches in
international studies: post-modernism, gender studies and critical theory.
CURRENT ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Post-Cold War Order and its new challenges / Regional Aspects I – American Foreign Policy and its unilateralism / Regional Aspects II –
Eurasian politics, Russian foreign policy and the CIS / Regional Aspects III – Chinese foreign policy and Asia-Pacific developments /
Regional Aspects IV – Ethno-religious problems in the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia / Institutional developments
I – The EU Enlargement and the CFSP / Institutional developments II – The NATO Enlargement and its new doctrines / Institutional
developments III – The UN and its peace-keeping activities / Institutional developments IV – The UN and nuclear proliferation / Institutional
developments V – Environmental issues / Energy politics in world affairs / Emergence of transnational actors – Globalization and its critics /
Democracy and new global order / International terrorism and problems of organised crimes and illegal activities.