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11 Mehseti str. (Neftchilar campus), Centre for Turkic
Studies, Room 503, Old Building, Saturday 10.30-13.20
Please note that some lectures will be held at the premises
of the Centre for Strategic Studies
By appointment
Office hours
Advanced English language skills, PowerPoint Skills, ability to use various
databases for academic journals (i.e. JSTOR) and the desire to engage in an
independent research.
English
Elective
Core readings:
Turkish Foreign Policy Since 1774. William Hale, Routledge, 2012.
Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006, Editor: Baskın Oran. Translated by: Mustafa
Aksin, Utah Series in Turkish Studies. 2011.
Turkish Foreign Policy in Post Cold War Era, Editor: Idris Bal, Brown Walker
Press, 2004.
Course Description and Main Objective
This course aims at providing an informed understanding of the role of Turkey in
international politics. The main objective of the course is to provide students with a
better understanding of the domestic and international factors that shape Turkey’s
approach to its relations with the world. Although we will discuss some of the
historical legacies and foundations of Turkish foreign policy, our main focus will
be on the more recent trends in Turkey’s regional and global policies. The course
consists of three parts. The first part casts light on evaluation of Ottoman Empire
role in international relations. The second part critically examines the Turkey`s
role that played during the Cold War. Third part looks at the Turkey`s relations
with other global actors and regions, assesses various issues of the Turkey`s
external policy specially after the Cold War.
To equip students with comprehensive understanding of the Turkey’s role in global
politics, to supply them with knowledge about core concepts, evolution, methods
and techniques of implementation of the Turkey’s foreign policy.
By the end of the course the students should be able:
Course outline
Course objectives
Learning outcomes
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Evaluation
INTR 525 Foreign Policy of Turkey
3KU / 6ECTS credits
16 Weeks, 64 hours
Political Science and International Relations
BA and MA
Spring 2015
Dr. Javid Valiyev (Cavid Vəliyev)
velievcavid@hotmail.com
To develop business and corporate strategy,
To solve various business problems and to make well-grounded business decisions,
indicate that they used someone else's words and ideas if they have done so, by
using quotation marks and mentioning the source in the text or a footnote. A
bibliography must also follow after the end of your essays.
Methods
Date/deadlines
Percentage (%)
30
Midterm evaluation
5
Class attendance
5
Active participation
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Policy
20
Case-study and
PowerPoint presentation
40
Final exam
Other
Active participation at
the events organized by
the Department
100
Total
You are expected to:
- attend classes on a regular basis as the classess are conducted in a combined
lecture/seminat format where students should play an active part.
- read the assigned and suggested readings before you come to class
- engage actively in classroom discussions
- offer thoughtful and informed classroom presentations and written work
- submit all your assignments on time
- follow assignments closely and carefully.
Class attendance:
Students are required to comply with the attendance policy of Khazar University.
Full-time students are expected to attend all classes unless they are sick or have the
permission of the instructor (approved absence).
A student must submit an absence request in anticipation of an absence from the
course. In case he/she fails to do so, his absence will be considered unapproved.
Specifically, to be eligible for taking exams, students must not miss more than
20% of class hours (unapproved absences). Otherwise, the student can take the
exam only with the approval of the School Dean. Continuing unapproved absences
or lack of participation may lead to withdrawal from the course.
Academic misconduct
Academic honesty plays an essential part in maintaining the integrity of Khazar
University. Students are expected to recognize and uphold high standards of
intellectual and academic integrity. The following acts are examples of academic
dishonesty, therefore are strictly forbidden and will, if proven, be penalized:
- plagiarism,
- cheating,
- unauthorized collaboration,
- falsification,
- multiple submissions.
On plagiarism:
Plagiarism is unethical and an offence under the University regulations. Please
familiarize yourself with the regulations relating to plagiarism and cheating in
examinations.
Plagiarism is copying other people's work without proper attribution. The students
committing plagiarism and the students providing materials for plagiarizing will
automatically receive a zero (0) for the assignment. Students must always indicate
that they used someone else's words and ideas if they have done so, by using
quotation marks and mentioning the source in the text or a footnote. A
bibliography must also follow after the end of your essays.
Rules of Professional Conduct
The students shall behave in the way to create favorable academic and professional
environment during the class hours. Unauthorized discussions and unethical
behavior are strictly prohibited. Classroom behavior that seriously interferes with
either (a) the instructor’s ability to conduct the class or (b) the ability of other
students to benefit from the course program will not be tolerated. When a student’s
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behavior in a class is so seriously disruptive as to compel immediate action, the
instructor has the authority to remove a student from the class on an interim basis,
pending an informal hearing on the behavior.
Tentative Schedule
Week 1
31/01/2015
Topic
Readings
Introduction to the course
No advance reading is required.
Historical context
Ottoman Diplomacy Conventional or Unconventional?
Edited by A. Nuri Yurtsever. Published by Palgrave
Macmillina, 2004.
Turkey: A Modern History, Eric J. Zurcher, London: I.B.
Tauris, 1993.
Week 2
07/02/2015
Week 3
14/02/2015
Turkey War on
Independence and Ataturk
Foreign Policy
Week 4
21.02.2015
Turkey and Second World
War,
Week 5
28.02.2015
Turkey-USSR Relations
After Second World War
Week 6
07.03.2015
Turkey-U.S. Relations after
Second World War
Week 7
14.03.2015
Turkey and Cold War
Week 8
21.03.2015
Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006, Editor: Baskın Oran.
Translated by: Mustafa Aksin, Utah Series in Turkish
Studies. 2011.
"Atatürk
Foreign
Policy
Understanding
and
Apllication", Şaban Çalış and Hüseyin Bağcı.
http://www.iibf.selcuk.edu.tr/iibf_dergi/dosyalar/79134798
8248.pdf
Turkey foreign policy during the Second World War:
An `active` neutrality, Selim Deringil, Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
"Turkey`s Declaration of War on Germany at The End
of
World
War
II,"
Sina
Aksin,
http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/44/673/8578.pdf
Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006, Editor: Baskın Oran.
Translated by: Mustafa Aksin, Utah Series in Turkish
Studies. 2011.
"Territorial Claims of the Armenian and Georgian
SSRS to Turkey in the 1940s," Laura Seyidbayova,
http://www.usak.org.tr/dosyalar/dergi/CZgCByfZXsOuTjk
1vgkB6ILmU8ar9i.pdf
“The Complexities of American Policymaking on
Turkey,” in Abramowitz (ed.), Turkey’s
Transformation and American
Policy (New York:
The Century Foundation Press, 2000), 153-184.
"The Factors Affecting Turkey`s Relations With The
United States In The Post-Cold War Era," Nasuh Uslu,
http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/44/671/8550.pdf
"Turkish Foreign Policy at the End of
the Cold War: Roots and Dynamics,"
Mustafa Aydin,
http://www.sbu.yildiz.edu.tr/~faksu/Fuatyayinlar/TDPIIdoc
s/tdppostcoldwar.pdf
Bridge or Barrier, Turkey and the West After The Cold
War, Ian O. Lesser, RAND Corporation 1992.
Midterm evaluation
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Turkey-EU Relations
“Turkey and the European Union: Troubled European
or
European Trouble?”,
John Redmond,
International Affairs, (2007), 305-317.
“The Domestic Dynamics of Turkey’s Cyprus Policy:
Implications for Turkey’s Accession to the European
Union,” Müge Kınacıoğlu and Emel Oktay, Turkish
Studies (June 2006), 261-274.
Turkey-Cyprus Problem
Turkish Foreign Policy: 1919-2006, Editor: Baskın Oran.
Translated by: Mustafa Aksin, Utah Series in Turkish
Studies. 2011.
Key Players and Processes
of Foreign Policy-Making
"Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy Since the
Cold War," Philip Robins,
(Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2003), 68-92.
“Decision-Making in Turkish Foreign Policy: The
Caspian Oil Pipeline Issue,” M. Fatih Tayfur and Korel
Göymen, Middle Eastern Studies (April 2002), 101-22.
Policies Toward the Middle
East: The Arab World
“From Swamp to Backyard: The Middle East in
Turkish Foreign Policy,” Malik Mufti, in Robert O.
Friedman (ed.), The Middle East Enters the
TwentyFirst Century (Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida
Press, 2002), 80-110.
“Worldviews and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle
East,” Meliha Benli Altunışık, New Perspectives on
Turkey (Spring 1990), 169-192.
Week 9
28.03.2015
Week 10
04.04.2015
Week 11
11.04.2015
Week 12
18.04.2015
Week 13
25.04.2015
Policies Toward the Middle
East: Iran and Israel
Week 14
02.05.2015
Turkey and Eurasia:
Relations with Russia and
the Caucasus
Week 15
09.05.2015
Turkey Foreign Policy
During AKP
Week 16
16.05.2015
Turkey-Azerbaijan
Relations
Iran-Turkey Relations, 1979-2011, Suleyman Erik,
Routledge, 2011.
"The Changing Dynamics of Turkey`s Relations with
Israel: An Analysis of `Securitization," Ali Balcı and
Tuncay
Kardaş,
http://file.insightturkey.com/Files/Pdf/insightturkey_vol_14_no_2_2012_balci_kardas.pdf
“Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded?” Fionna
Hill and Ömer Taşpınar, Survival (Spring 2006), 81-92.
“Foucault’s Pendulum: Turkey in Central Asia and the
Caucasus,” Mustafa Aydin, Turkish Studies (Summer
2004), 1-22.
"The Foreign Policy-Hegemonya Nexus: Turkey`s
Search for a "New" Subjectivity in World Politics and
Its Implications for US_Turkish Relations", Ali Aslan,
Perceptions, Winter 2012, Volume XVII, Number 4, pp.
159-184.
“Turkey’s Foreign Policy Vision,” Ahmet Davutoğlu,
Insight Turkey, Vol.
10, No. 1 (Winter 2008), 77-96
"Turkish AK Party`s Central Asia and Caucasus
Policies: Critiques and Suggestions," Ertan Efegil,
Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 2-3,
Summer 2008.pp. 166-172.
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"The relations between Turkey and the Caucasus,"
Bülent Aras and Pınar Akpınar, Perceptions, Autumn 2011,
Volume XVI, Number 3, pp. 53-68.
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