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