Şuhnaz Yılmaz
Assoc. Professor
Koç University
INTL 390
Fall 2015
TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
CLASS HOURS
:
Tue./Thu. 11:30-12:45
OFFICE HOURS
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Tue 17:15-18:15, (or by appointment), CAS. 146, ext. 1668
E-MAIL
:
syilmaz@ku.edu.tr
COURSE TA
:
Nazlı Üstünes, bustunes13@ku.edu.tr
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines the major contours, concepts, trends and issues of Turkish
foreign policy. It devotes special attention to the Cold War and particularly the post-Cold War era. The course
aims to provide the students with a better understanding of the key issues and regions for Turkey through a
comprehensive analysis of the conduct and changing priorities of Turkish foreign policy. Within this context, the
impact of international developments on foreign policy decisions, the role of key figures and organizations in
shaping the foreign relations, the interaction of political, economic, cultural and military factors in policy
formation will also be examined.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Mid-term exam
25%
8-10 page essay
25%
Final exam
35%
Participation and attendance
15%
REQUIRED READINGS:
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William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy (1974-2000), (Portland: Frank Cass, 2000).
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Course package
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
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Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Turkish-American Relations, 1800-1852, ( London: Routledge, 2015)
Students are also advised to consult the following periodicals on current international developments
and Turkish Foreign Policy regularly:
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The Economist
Newsweek
Time
Perceptions (Ankara: Institute of Foreign Policy)
New Perspectives on Turkey (Istanbul: Institute of Foreign Policy)
Insight Turkey
ACADEMIC HONESTY
:
Honesty and trust are important to all of us as individuals. Students and faculty adhere to the following principles
of academic honesty at Koç University:
1) Individual accountability for all individual work, written or oral. Copying from others or providing
answers or information, written or oral, to others is cheating.
2) Providing proper acknowledgement of original author. Copying from another student’s paper or from
another text without written acknowledgement is plagiarism.
3) Study or project group activity is effective and authorized teamwork. Unauthorized help from another
person or having someone else write one’s paper or assignment is collusion.
4) Cheating, plagiarism, and collusion are serious offences resulting in an F grade and disciplinary action.
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Şuhnaz Yılmaz
Assoc. Professor
Koç University
INTL 390
Fall 2015
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1:
Introduction
Week 2:
Foreign Policy Analysis and Key Issues in Turkish Foreign Policy
 Bruce Russet and Harvey Starr, World Politics: The Menu for Choice (New York, 1989),
pp.13-25.
 B. Oran, Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006 Facts and Analyses with Documents, Utah Series
and Turkish and Islamic Studies (2010), pp 3-23.
Week 3:
A Brief Historical Overview of General Trends in Turkish Foreign Policy
 William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp. 70-73, pp. 79-108, 109-145, 191-217.
 Selim Deringil, "Turkish Foreign Policy Since Atatürk," in Clement H. Dodd (ed.), Turkish
Foreign Policy: New Prospects, (Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1992), pp. 1-8.
 Ahmet Davutoğlu, “Turkey’s Foreign Policy Vision: An Assessment of 2007”, Insight
Turkey, Vol. 10, No: 1, (2008), p. 77-96.
 Kemal Kirişci, “Turkey's Engagement with its Neighborhood: A Synthetic and
Multidimentional Look at Turkey's Foreign Policy Transformation”, Turkish Studies, Vol.
13, No: 3, (2012), pp. 319-341.
Week 4:
Turkish-American Relations (1923-1990)
 Şuhnaz Yılmaz, "The Interwar Period: Turkish-American Rapproachement” in Turkish-
American Relations, 1800-1852, (London: Routledge, 2015), p.62-102.
 Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “Cold War Context: Formation of the Turkish-American Alliance” in
Turkish-American Relations, 1800-1852, (London: Routledge, 2015), p. 118-137.
 Aylin Güney, “Anti-Americanism in Turkey: Past and Present”, Middle Eastern Studies,
Vol.44, No: 3, (2008), p. 471-487.
Week 5:
Turkish-American Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp.216-228.
 Morton Abromowitz, "The Complexities of American Policymaking on Turkey," in
Abromowitz (ed.) Turkey's Transformation and American Policy (New York: The Century
Foundation Press, 2000), pp.153-184.
 Sabri Sayari, “New Directions in Turkey–USA Relations”, Journal of Balkan and Near
Eastern Studies, Vol. 15, No: 2, (2013), p. 129-142.
Week 6:
Turkey and the European Union
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp.223-245.
 S. Fule, “Turkey, the EU, and the European Neighborhood Policy” Turkish Foreign Policy
Quarterly, Volume 10 Number 2. (2011) pp 17-21.
 Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “The Turkey-EU-US Triangle in Perspective: Transformation
or Continuity?” Middle East Journal, vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, pp. 265-284.
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Şuhnaz Yılmaz
Assoc. Professor
Koç University
INTL 390
Fall 2015
Week 7:
Turkey and the European Union
 Tarık Oğuzlu, Mustafa Kibaroğlu, “Is the Westernization Process Losing Pace in Turkey:
Who’s to Blame?”, Turkish Studies, 10:4, (2010), p. 577-593.
 Meltem Müftüler-Baç (2011) Turkish Foreign Policy, its Domestic Determinants and the Role
of the European Union,” South European Society and Politics, 16:2, 279-291.
 Rumelili, B. ‘Turkey: Identity, Foreign Policy, and Socialization in post-Enlargement Europe’
Journal of European Integration, 33: 2 (2011), pp. 235-249.
Week 8:
Discussion Session
MIDTERM
Week 9:
Turkish-Greek Relations: Aegean Disputes and Cyprus Conundrum
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp.252-260.
 Şuhnaz Yılmaz and Ziya Öniş, “Greek-Turkish Rapprochement: Rhetoric or Reality?”,
Political Science Quarterly, vol. 123, no: 1, (2008), p. 123-149.
 B. Oran, Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006 Facts and Analyses with Documents, Utah Series
and Turkish and Islamic Studies (2010), pp 790-815.
 Tarık Oğuzlu, “Turkey and the Cyprus Dispute: Pitfalls and Opportunities”, Ankara Bar
Review, 2010/1, p. 73-82.
 Gül Inanç, Büyükelçiler Anlatıyor: Türk Diplomasisinde Kıbrıs (1970-1991), (İstanbul:
Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları), 2007, pp. 3-68. (Optional Reading).
Week 10:
Pandora's Box: The Balkans
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp. 260-266.
 B. Oran, Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006 Facts and Analyses with Documents, Utah Series
and Turkish and Islamic Studies (2010), pp 817-840.
 Ronald Linden and Yasemin İrepoğlu, “Turkey and the Balkans: New Forms of Political
Community?”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 14, No: 2, (2013), p. 229-255.
Week 11:
Turkey and the Middle East
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp. 296-316.
 Meliha Altunışık and Lenore Martin, “Making Sense of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle
East under AKP”, Turkish Studies, Vol.12, No:4, (2011), p. 569-587.
 Ziya Öniş, (2014) “Turkey and the Arab Revolutions: Boundaries of Regional Power
Influence in a Turbulent Middle East”, Mediterranean Politics, pp. 1-17.
 Merve Tahiroğlu and Behnam Ben Taleblu, “Turkey and Iran: The Best of Frenemies”,
Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol.14, No: 1 (2015), p. 123-14.
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Şuhnaz Yılmaz
Assoc. Professor
Koç University
INTL 390
Fall 2015
Week 12:
Turkey and the Former Soviet Territories
 Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, pp.266-281, pp. 287-296.
 Şener Aktürk, “Turkish-Russian Relations after the Cold War (1992-2002), Turkish Studies,
Vol. 7, No: 3, (2006), pp. 337-364.
 Mustafa Aydin, “Turkish Policy Towards the Wider Black Sea and the EU Connection”,
Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 16, No: 3, (2014), pp. 383-397.
Week 13:
Geopolitics of the Caspian Basin and Energy Politics
 M. Muftuler, “The Future of Energy Security for Europe: Turkey's Role as an Energy
Corridor” Middle Eastern Studies Volume 47, Issue 2 (2011), pp 361- 378.
 Ali Tekin and Paul Williams, “EU-Russian Relations, and Turkey’s Role as an Energy
Corridor”, Europe-Asia Studies, 61:2, (2009), p. 337-356.
 Global Relations Forum, “Turkish Energy Strategy in the 21th Century: Weathering
Uncertainties and Discontinuities” Task Force Report 2013.
Week 14:
Turkey in the Global Context: Increasing ties with Asia and Africa
 Tao Zan (2009) “Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Turkey’s Perception on the Rise of China”
Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (in Asia) Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 66-79.
 Emel Parlar Dal (2013), Assessing Turkey's Normative Power in the Middle East and North
Africa Region”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 14, No.4, pp. 709-734.
 Mehmet Özkan (2010) “What drives Turkey's involvement in Africa”, Review of African
Political Economy, Vol. 37, No.126, pp. 533-540.
Week 15:
Review and Discussion: Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
 Şuhnaz Yılmaz and Ziya Öniş, “Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign Policy
Activism in Turkey during the AKP Era”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 10, No: 1, (2009), p. 7-24.
 Reşat Bayer & E. Fuat Keyman (2012) “Turkey: An Emerging Hub of Globalization and
Internationalist Humanitarian Actor?” Globalizations, 9:1, pp. 73-90.
 Ahmet Davutoğlu (2013) “Turkey’s humanitarian diplomacy: objectives, challenges and
prospects” Nationalities Papers Vol.41, No.6, pp.865-870.
 Stephen M. Walt (2015), “What Will 2050 Look Like?”, Foreign Policy, May 12. Available
at: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/12/what-will-2050-look-like-china-nato/.
FINAL EXAM
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