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| ULS6350 | War and Peace Theories In IR | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ayça EMİNOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | Associate Professor Özgür Tüfekçi | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The primary focus, however, is on the logical coherence and analytic limitations of the theories and the kinds of research designs that might be useful in testing them. This course is designed primarily for postgraduate students who want to understand and contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature in political science on war, peace, and security. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | To understand main conceps and theories of IR discipline and to apply these to historical and contemporary cases | 2,3,6 | 5, | | PO - 2 : | To have main knowledge and conceptual approaches of war and peace theories | 2,3,6 | 5, | | PO - 3 : | To understand the historical devolepment process of international political institutions and structure | 2,3,6 | 5, | | PO - 4 : | To analyze the dynamics forming the infrastructure of cases and facts | 2,3,6 | 5, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| In this course we undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on the causes of war and the conditions of peace, with a primary focus on interstate war. We focus primarily on theory and empirical research in political science but give some attention to work in other disciplines. We examine the leading theories, their key concepts and causal variables, the causal paths leading to war or to peace, and the conditions under which various outcomes are most likely to occur. We also give some attention to the degree of empirical support for various theories and hypotheses, and we look at some of the major empirical research programs on the origins and expansion of war. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Conceptualizing war in main IR approaches | | | Week 3 | War from ancient history to 21st Century | | | Week 4 | Traditional and critical geopolitics | | | Week 5 | Nationalism, ethnic factors and interwar | | | Week 6 | Just War Theory | | | Week 7 | National resources and armed conflagration | | | Week 8 | Specialization of war | | | Week 9 | Mid-term Exam | | | Week 10 | The transformation of war: negotiation and mediation | | | Week 11 | Post War: Peace building and Peace keeping | | | Week 12 | The normative ideas for peace and peace conditions | | | Week 13 | Democratic Peace Theory: Do democracy bring peace? | | | Week 14 | Negative peace building: International law and International Organisations | | | Week 15 | Pozitive peace building: Human rights and nonviolence and peacefull acts | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations ; Raymond Aron, Transaction Publishers; 1st edition (June 5, 2003) | | | 2 | Savaş Kuramları, Erhan Büyükakıncı (Ed), Adres Yayınları, 2015 | | | 3 | Barış Çalışmaları, Erhan Büyükakıncı (Ed), Adres Yayınları, 2018 | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 16/11/2021 | 2 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 13 | 220/12/2021 | | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 17/01/2022 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 5 | 30 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 5 | 6 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 8 | 48 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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