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| ULS6663 | Great Power Politics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Murat ÜLGÜL | | Co-Lecturer | NA | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The objectives of the course are to provide information about grand strategies which shape the behaviors of major powers, analyze contemporary events in theoretical perspective and create a link between historical events that took place in different time periods. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | understand the factors that lead the rise and fall of great powers; | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | theoretically explain internal and external developments of great powers; | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | analyze the dynamics of relations among ggreat powers including the US, Russia and China. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | 1 | | 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 the rise and fall of great powers will be discussedi n historical and theoretical terms while strategic relations between the US, Russia and China will be analyzed through contemporary events. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Balance of Power in History | | | Week 3 | Great Power Politics in the Nineteenth Century | | | Week 4 | The Rise and Fall of Great Powers | | | Week 5 | Great Power Politics in the Twentieth Century | | | Week 6 | Realism and Great Power Politics | | | Week 7 | Liberalism and Great Power Politics | | | Week 8 | Strategy of Containment | | | Week 9 | Unipolar World and Challenges | | | Week 10 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 11 | American Grand Strategy I | | | Week 12 | American Grand Strategy II | | | Week 13 | Chinese Foreign Policy I | | | Week 14 | Chinese Foreign Policy II | | | Week 15 | Russian Foreign Policy | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Kaufman, Stuart et al. 2007; The Balance of Power in World History, Palgrave Macmillan, New York. | | | 2 | Abbenhuis, Maartje. 2014; An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815-1914, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. | | | 3 | Kennedy, Paul. 1987; The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Random House, New York. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 10/04/2020 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 10/06/2020 | 1 | 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 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 5 | 30 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 5 | 6 | 30 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 8 | 48 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 3 | 3 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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