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| ULS5915 | Balkan Politics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second 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 İsmail Köse | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course is designed to provide students with knowledge about the politics and economics of the post-Cold War Balkans. It aims to give students some prospects for deeper understanding of the special dynamics of the region. The contemporary political, ethnic, economic and social map of the Balkan states: Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo will be reviewed. Main patterns of interaction among those countries and their relationship with the European states, United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War will also be analysed. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Do regional analyze. | 2,6 | 5, | | PO - 2 : | Have great information about close area of Turkey. | 2,6 | 5, | | PO - 3 : | Do further studies with the aspect of economical and political. | 2,6 | 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 | | |
| Contemporary Balkan Politics course is designed to provide students with knowledge about the politics and strategy of the post-Cold War Balkans. It aims to give students some prospects for deeper understanding of the special dynamics of the region. Although, the course does not attempt cover the history of the region, it requires the students to be informed about the history of the region since World War I. The contemporary political, ethnic, economic and social map of the Balkan states: Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo will be reviewed. Main patterns of interaction among those countries and their relationship with the European states, United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War will also be analysed |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Conceptual Framework (Naming the Region and Identity Formation) | | | Week 3 | Countries of the Region : Geography, culture and ethnic structure | | | Week 4 | History (Balkans from the Ottoman Era to the Present | | | Week 5 | Ideological and Political Structure: Conservative and Left Wing Parties | | | Week 6 | Ideological and Political Structure: Nationalist and Marginal Parties | | | Week 7 | Dissolution of Yugoslavia | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Turkey and the Balkans | | | Week 11 | Foreign Policy of the Balkan States: New States | | | Week 12 | Foreign Policy of the Balkan States: New States -II | | | Week 13 | Foreign Policy of the Balkan States: Old States | | | Week 14 | Global Actors and the Balkans: EU and the US | | | Week 15 | Global Actors and the Balkans: Russia and China | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Ferdinand Sghevill, A History of the Balkans From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Dorset Press, New York 1991. | | | 2 | Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries, The Balkans: A Post-Communist History, London-New York: Routledge, 2007 | | | |
| 1 | Tom Gallagher, The Balkans in the New Millennium: In the Shadow of War and Peace, Routledge Press, New York, 2005 | | | 2 | Mark Mazower, The Balkans From the End of the Byzantium to the Present Day, Phoenix Press, London, 2001. (Önerilen) | | | 3 | Hugh Poulton (1993), The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict, London: Minority Rights Publishers. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 11/04/2018 | 2 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 7/06/2018 | 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 | 8 | 14 | 112 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 2 | 24 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 3 | 2 | 6 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 12 | 3 | 36 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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