INTL 305
GLOBALIZATION and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Inst: Prof. E. Fuat Keyman
Time: Monday-Wednesday 9:30-10:45
Location: SOC B42
Office Hours: Monday-Wednesday 10:45-11.30
This course deals with the changing nature of international relations
within the context of the process(es) of globalization. It is organized
around a number of topics that have become crucial especially after
the end of the Cold War. It is especially important to note that the
course aims at advancing our understanding of international
relations by discussing (a) the economic and political dimensions of
globalization, as well as (b) the crucial problems of international
relations such as global governce and terrorism, and also (c) the
important case studies such as the American hegemony, European
Integration and the East Asia. For this reason, the course is based on
lectures and discussions, and active student participation and the
reading of course material before attending the lectures are expected
and required.
The Texts:
Globalization and State Power: A Reader, Joel Krieger, Pearson
Longman, New York, 2006.
(this book is available in Pandora, and a copy of it in the reserve
section of our library)
The Evaluation:
( % 5) Participation
( % 25) Midterm
( % 30) The (group-based) Term Paper
(% 40) Final
( The termpaper will be a joint-research paper prepared by students, 4
of whom will constitute a group. Each group will choose a topic, do
research on it and prepare a joint paper around 20 pages. Although
the groups will be formed by students themselves, the instructor’s input
is necessary and imperative for the determination of the topics on
which the group-paper will be written. The groups can choose any
topics related to the question of globalization and its impact on interand intra-national relations. Yet the groups are expected to do their
research in a comparative fashion and by choosing 3 country-cases
(Turkey should be one of them) to substantiate their work on their
topics. The importance of the intructor’s input lies in the choice of the
topics and country-cases for the group papers. Plagiarism in all its
forms is strictly forbidden and will be subject to legal action. Please be
careful when you are writing your group papers.)
TOPICS
(all of the reading materials are from the course text-book)
WEEK (1) Introduction (17-19, September, 2007)
A General Introduction
WEEK (2) Globalization and State Power (I)(01-03, October, 2007)
Thomas L. Friedman, “The New System”.
Samuel P. Huntington, “The New Era in World Politics”.
WEEK (3) Globalization and State Power (II) (8-10, October, 2006)
Joseph P. Stiglitz, “Broken Promises”,
John J. Mearsheimer, “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power”.
WEEK (4) Multi-Level Global Governance (I) (15-17, October, 2007)
Saskia Sassen, “Global Cities and Survival Circuits”
Stephan D. Krasner, “Sovereignty and Its Discontents”.
WEEK (5) Multi-Level Global Governance (II) (22-24, October, 2007)
David Held, “Political Globalization”.
Paul Carmichael, “Briefing paper: Multi-Level Governance”.
Midterm Exam Week
Midterm Exam, 31, October, 2007
WEEK (6) Globalization and American Power, (05-07 November, 2007)
G. John Ikenberry, “Liberal Hegemony and the Future of the American Postwar
Order”.
Joseph P. Nye, “Redefining National Interest”.
WEEK (7) Globalization and European Integration (12-14, November, 2007)
George Ross, “European Integration and Globalization”.
David P. Calleo, “Europe in the New World Order”.
Kalypso Nicolaidis, “We, the Peoples of Europe”.
WEEK (8) East Asia: The Paradox of State Power (19-21, November, 2007)
T.J. Pempel, “The politics of the Asian Economic Crisis”.
Lind Weiss, “State Power and the Asian Crisis”.
Claude Smadja, “The End of Complacency”.
WEEK (9) Globalization and Terror (26-28, November, 2007)
Audrey Kurth Cronin, “Behind the Curve: Globalization and International
Terrorism”.
President George W. Bush, “The National Security Strategy of the United States
of America”.
WEEK (10) Globalization and the Use of Force (03-05, December, 2007)
John Lewis Gaddis, “A Grand Strategy of Transformation”.
Chris Brown, “Self-Defense in an Imperfect World”.
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, “The
Responsibility to Protect: The Way Forward”.
WEEK (11) Globalization and Empire (10-12, December, 2007)
Niall Ferguson, “The Empire Slinks Back”.
Michael Ignatieff, “Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?”.
Zbignitiew Brzezinski, “Domination and leadership”.
WEEK (12) Globalization and the Future of International Relations (17-19,
December, 2006)
Instructor’s Lecture
WEEK (13) Final Exam Week (24-26, December, 2007)
Final Exam, 26, December, 2007