ES509 Regional and Global Context of Turkish Foreign Policy
Spring 2012
Prof. Dr. Mine Eder: IB 508
Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci: IB 411
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gün Kut: IB 512
Office phone: 359 6525
Office phone: 359 6838
Office phone: 359 6506
e-mail: eder@boun.edu.tr
e-mail: kirisci@boun.edu.tr
e-mail: kut@boun.edu.tr
Office Hours: Wednesdays 18:00-18:30 or by appointment
Course slot: Wednesdays 18:30-21:30
Course Description
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the study and practice of Turkish foreign policy in
its global and regional context. After an overview of relevant concepts and theoretical approaches, the
course focuses on Turkey's role in the international system and the impact of structural constraints and
changes on Turkish foreign policy since the end of the Second World War. Subsequently, the key players
and decision making processes as well as the relationships between domestic politics and Turkish foreign
policy are analyzed. The second part of the course examines Turkey’s relations with and policies towards
the states and regions that are of utmost salience in her foreign policy agenda.
Course Requirements
Required Readings: Selected articles and book chapters
Grading:
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Class attendance and participation
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Review assignment
Attendance/Reviews:
20 %
25 %
30 %
25%
Each week attendance will be taken. Participants can review one book on Turkish foreign policy of their
choice or four academic articles. Participants are advised to select the articles and/or books that could
constitute a basis for their Term Project course. The essay will be 4-5 pages (one and a half space, 12
point font, regular margin size) long “short paper (summary-abstract-review)”. Each participant will write
a short abstract/essay explaining why they chose the book/articles they did. This will be worth 5 out of the
25 points. The deadline for handing in this short abstract/essay is April 11, 2012. The deadline for
handing in the full paper is May 23rd..
All necessary citations must be provided in an academically acceptable format. (Please see the section on
academic honesty below.). Students are strongly advised to manage their time well and not to wait till the
due date to hand in their assignments.
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Course Policies
While the readings and lectures are designed to complement each other, they will not cover identical
material. Students are responsible from the contents of both the readings and the lectures
Class attendance and active participation in classroom discussions are required and students are expected to
have done assigned readings before class. The quality of class sessions and their value to the students are
greatly enhanced when students are interested in and prepared to discuss the course materials as well as
current events and issues that are relevant to the topics covered in class.
Exams must be taken when scheduled. Individual exceptions are granted only in cases documented to the
satisfaction of the instructor. Unexcused absences from exams and late assignments may result in a score
of zero.
Academic Honesty
The Department of Political Science and International Relations has the following rules and regulations
regarding academic honesty.
1. Copying work from others or giving and receiving answers/information during exams either in
written or oral form constitutes cheating.
2. Submitting take-home exams and papers of others as your own, using sentences or paragraphs
from another author without the proper acknowledgement of the original author, insufficient
acknowledgement of the consulted works in the bibliography, all constitute plagiarism. For
further guidelines, you can consult
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/pdf/AvoidingPlagiarism.pdf
3. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offenses and will result in:
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an automatic “F” in the assignment or the exam
an oral explanation before a Departmental Ethics Committee
losing the opportunity to request and receive any references from the entire faculty
losing the opportunity to apply in exchange programs
losing the prospects of becoming a student assistant or a graduate assistant in the department
The students may further be sent to the University Student Ethics Committee or be subject to
disciplinary action.
Recommended supplemental books:
William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000, London: Frank Cass, 2000,
Baskin Oran, Türk Dış Politikası, Cilt 1 ve 2 İletişim Yayınları (2010, ilk baskı 2001)
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Course Outline and Readings
February 22
Introduction to the Course
Global and Regional Contexts: Structural Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Mine Eder
Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979, Chps 5-6
Robert E. Kelly, “Security Theory in the ‘New Regionalism’” International Studies Review, 9, 2007:
197–229
Jeanne A. K. Hey, “Foreign Policy Options under Dependence: A Theoretical Evaluation with Evidence
from Ecuador”, Journal of Latin American Studies, 25 (3), Oct., 1993: 543-574
February 29 Foreign Policy Analysis: Concepts and Theoretical Approaches
Prof. Dr. Mine Eder
Valerie Hudson and C.S. Vore, "Foreign Policy Analysis Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," Mershon
International Studies Review, 39 (2), 1995: 209-238
Graham Allison, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," American Political Science Review,
63, 1969: 689-718 (optional: Allison, Graham and Philip Zelikow. 1999. Essence of
Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, New York: Longman)
Margaret G. Hermann and Charles F. Hermann, “Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An
Empirical Inquiry,” International Studies Quarterly, 33 (4), 1989: 361-387
March 7
Structural Constraints, Change, and Turkish Foreign Policy
Prof. Dr. Mine Eder
William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000, London: Frank Cass, 2000, Chapters 4-5
Mustafa Aydın, “Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy: Changing Patterns and Conjunctures during the
Cold War,” Middle Eastern Studies, 36 (1), 2000: 103-139
Sabri Sayarı, “Turkey: The Changing European Security Environment and the Gulf Crisis,” The Middle
East Journal, Winter 1992: 9-21
Meliha Altunişık, Worldviews and Turkish Foreign Policy” New Perspectives on Turkey
20:2009:
Kemal Kirişci "New Patterns of Turkish Foreign Policy Behaviour" in C. Balım et al. (eds.)
Turkey: Economic, Political and Foreign Policy Challenges for the 1990s (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).
March 14
Key Players and Processes of Foreign Policy-Making in Turkey
Prof. Dr. Mine Eder
Philip Robins, Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy Since the Cold War, Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2003, Chp 2
Esra Çuhadar-Gürkaynak and Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner, “Decision Making Process Matters: Lessons
Learned from Two Turkish Foreign Policy Cases,” Turkish Studies, 5 (2), 2004: 43-78
M. Fatih Tayfur, and Korel Göymen, “Decision Making in Turkish Foreign Policy: The Caspian Oil
Pipeline Issue,” Middle Eastern Studies, 38 (2), 2002: 101-122
Baris Kesgin and Juliet Kaarbo. 2010. “When and How Parliaments Influence Foreign Policy: The Case
of Turkey’s Iraq Decision,” International Studies Perspectives, 11, 1, 19-36
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March 21
Midterm Exam
March 28
Domestic Politics and Turkish Foreign Policy
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gün Kut
Fiona B. Adamson, “Democratization and the Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Turkey in the 1974
Cyprus Crisis,” Political Science Quarterly, 116 (2), 2001: 277-303
Ali L. Karaosmanoğlu, “The Evolution of the National Security Culture and the Military in Turkey,”
Journal of International Affairs, 54 (1), 2000: 199-216
Michaelangelo Guida, “The Sevres Syndrome and ‘Komplo’ Theories in the Islamist and Secular Press,”
Turkish Studies, March 2008: 37-52
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, “Public Choice and Foreign Affairs: Democracy and International Relations in
Turkey,” New Perspectives on Turkey, Spring 2009: 57-81
Kemal Kirişci and Neslihan Kaptanoğlu, “The politics of trade and Turkish foreign policy” Middle East
Studies, Vol: 47, No. 5, (2011), pp. 705- 724.
April 4
Turkey and the West: Europe
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gün Kut
Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, “Turkey as a Bridgehead and Spearhead: Integrating EU and
Turkish Foreign Policy”, CEPS EU-Turkey Working Paper No.1, August 2004
Esra Çayhan, “Towards a European Security and Defense Policy: With or Without Turkey?” Turkish
Studies, 4 (1), 2003
Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “Greek-Turkish Rapprochement: Rhetoric or Reality?” Political Science
Quarterly, 123 (1), 2008: 123-149
Müge Kınacıoğlu and Emel Oktay, “The Domestic Dynamics of Turkey’s Cyprus Policy: Implications for
Turkey’s Accession to the European Union,” Turkish Studies, 7 (2), 2006: 261-274
April 11
Turkey and Eurasia: Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gün Kut
Duygu Bazoğlu Sezer, “Russia: The Challenges of Reconciling Geopolitical Competition with Economic
Partnership,” in Barry Rubin and Kemal Kirişci (eds) İstanbul: Boğaziçi University Press, 2002
Fionna Hill and Ömer Taşpınar, “Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded?” Survival, 48 (1), 2006: 8192.
Mustafa Aydın, “Foucault’s Pendulum: Turkey in Central Asia and the Caucasus,” Turkish Studies,
Summer 2004: 1-22.
Carol R. Saivetz, “Tangled Pipelines: Turkey’s Role in Energy Export Plans,” Turkish Studies, March
2009: 95-108.
April 18
Turkey and the West: the United States
Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci
Ian O. Lesser, “Turkey, the United States and the Delusion of Geopolitics,” Survival, Autumn 2006: 8396
Mustafa Aydın, “Reconstructing Turkish-American relations: Divergences versus Convergences” New
Perspectives on Turkey, 40, (2009), pp. 127-148.
Kemal Kirisci, “U.S. and Turkish Relations: New Uncertainties in a Renewed Partnership” in B. Rubin and
K. Kirisci (eds.) Turkey In World Politics: An Emerging Multi-Regional Power (Boulder: Lynne
Reinner, 2001).
Füsun Türkmen, “Turkish–American Relations: A Challenging Transition,” Turkish Studies, 10 (1) 2009:
109-129
Steven Cook, “The USA, Turkey, and the Middle East: Continuities, Challenges and Opportunities”, Turkish
Studies, 12, 4, (2011), pp. 717-726.
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Rajan Menon and S. Enders Wimbush, “The US and Turkey: End of an Alliance?,” Survival 49, no. 2
(Summer 2007), pp. 129–144.
April 25
Spring break
May 2
Turkey and the Middle East I: The Arab World
Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci
Bilge Criss and Pınar Bilgin, “Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East,” Middle East Review of
International Affairs 1, 1 (January 1997).
http://www.gloria-center.org/1997/01/criss-and-bilgin-1997-01-03/
Mahmut Bali Aykan, “The Palestinian Question in Turkish Foreign Policy from the 1950s to the 1990s”
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25, 1, (1993), pp. 91-110.
Meliha Benli Altunışık and Lenore Martin, “Making Sense of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East”
Turkish Studies, 12, 4, (2011), pp. 569-588.
Stephen Larrabee, “Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council”, Turkish Studies, 12, 4, (2011), pp. 689698.
Henry Barkey, “Turkey and Iraq: The Making of a Partnership” Turkish Studies, 12, 4, (2011), pp.663674.
Basheer M. Nafi, “The Arabs and Modern Turkey: A Century of Changing Perceptions” Insight Turkey,
11, 1, 2009, pp. 63-82.
Ali Çarkoğlu and Mine Eder, “Domestic Concerns and the Water Conflict over the Euphrates-Tigris
River Basin,” Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (1), January 2001: 41-71.
Sinan Ülgen, “From Inspiration to Aspiration: Turkey in the New Middle East” The Carnegie Papers,
(December 2011).
Sadık al-Azm, “The ‘Turkish Model’: A Vision from Damascus”, Turkish Studies, 12, 4, (2011), pp. 633674.
May 9
Turkey and the Middle East II: Iran and Israel
Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci
Ilker Aytürk, “The Coming of an Ice Age? Turkish-Israeli Relations Since 2002”, Turkish Studies, 12, 4,
(2011), pp. 675-688.
Meliha Altunışık, “The Turkish-Israeli rapprochement in the post-Cold War era,” Middle Eastern Studies,
36 (2), April 2000: 172-191.
Meltem Müftüler-Bac, “Turkey and Israel: an axis of tension or security” Security Dialogue, 29, 1, March
1998.
John Calabrese, Turkey and Iran: Limits of a Stable Relationship, British Journal of Middle Eastern
Studies, 25 (1), 1998: 75-94
Gökhan Çetinsaya, “Essential Friends and Natural Enemies: The Historic Roots of Turkish-Iranian
Relations,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 7, no. 3 (September 2003), pp. 116-132.
http://www.gloria-center.org/2003/09/cetinsaya-2003-09-08/
Bülent Aras and Rabia Karakaya Polat, “From Conflict to Cooperation: Desecuritization of Turkey’s
Relations with Syria and Iran,” Security Dialogue 39, no. 495 (2008), pp. 495-515.
Mustafa Kibaroğlu and Barış Çağlar, “Implications of a Nuclear Iran for Turkey,” Middle East Policy 15,
no. 4 (2008), pp. 59-80.
Bülent Aras, “Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran: Ideology and Foreign Policy in Flux,” Journal of
Third World Studies, Spring 2001: 105-124
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May 16
Trade, Immigration and foreign policy
Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci
Thomas Straubhaar, “Turkey as an Economic Neighbor” in Ronald Linden, (et al.) Turkey and Its
Neighbors: Foreign Relations in Transition (Lyne Rienner, 2011), pp. 173-194.
Kemal Kirişci “The Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy: The Rise of the Trading State,” New
Perspectives on Turkey, 40, 2009: 29-57
Kemal Kirişci, “A friendlier Schengen visa system as a tool of “soft power”: The experience of Turkey”
European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 7, No. 4, (2005), pp343-367.
Juliette Tolay, “Coming and Going: Migration and Changes in Turkish Foreign Policy”, in Ronald
Linden, (et al.) Turkey and Its Neighbors: Foreign Relations in Transition (Lyne Rienner, 2011),
pp. 119-144.
Alexandre Bürgin, “European Commission's agency meets Ankara's agenda: why Turkey is ready for a
readmission agreement” Journal of European Public Policy, 2012
Ahmet İçduygu, “EU-ization Matters: Changes in Immigration and Asylum Practices in Turkey” in T.
Faist and A. Ette (eds.) The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration
(London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007).
May 23
The Present and the Prospects?
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gün Kut
Pınar Bilgin, “Turkey’s Changing Security Discourses: The Challenge of Globalization,” European
Journal of Political Research, 44, 2005: 175–201
Tarık Oğuzlu, “Middle Easternization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Does Turkey Disassociate from the
West?” Turkish Studies, 9 (1), 2008: 3-20.
Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign Policy Activism
in Turkey During the AKP Era,” Turkish Studies, March 2009: 7-24
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