POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

POL4858

Ders İsmi:

Comparative Foreign Policy

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	4

Language of instruction:

English

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Hybrid

Course Coordinator :

Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU

Course Lecturer(s):

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	This course offers a survey and analysis of the foreign policy and policy-making processes in various regions of the world. It includes specific case studies to help assess national priorities and ideological commitments mainly in the post-Cold War era.
Course Content:	Introduction to comparative foreign policy; United States of America; United Kingdom; France; Germany; the European Union; Russia; China; Japan; India; Iran; Brazil.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Ders Akış Planı

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	INTRODUCTION	• Jeffrey S. Lantis and Ryan Beasley, “Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis”, 2017.
2)	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	• K. J. Holsti, “Exceptionalism in American Foreign Policy", 2010. • Michael W. Fowler, “A Brief Survey of Democracy Promotion in US Foreign Policy”, 2015. • Louis Fischer, “Presidential Wars", 2018. • Matteo Dian, “Conclusions: US Foreign Policy under Trump, Years of Upheaval”, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f4kbQIQe44 (What the U.S. coronavirus response says about American exceptionalism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOjYbXxPffc (3 Takeaways from Biden's Foreign Policy Speech) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FZFlVixFI (What the Afghanistan crisis means for President Biden and American foreign policy)
3)	UNITED KINGDOM	• Anne Peltner, “Competing Norms and Foreign Policy Change”, 2017. • Philip Leech & Jamie Gaskarth, “British Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring", 2015. • Kai Oppermann et al.,“British Foreign Policy after Brexit”, 2019. • Oliver Turner, “Global Britain and the Narrative of Empire”, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PVeNj1qjp8 (What is the special relationship bw. the UK and the USA?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgaL0jOQNR8 (Where did Brexit come from?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txUKW-L1HNI (What’s the plan for ‘Global Britain’?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9OSbXjuqUU (Biden, Johnson and Morrison announce Aukus alliance, nuclear-powered submarine deal)
4)	FRANCE	•Antonio V.M. Alarcón, French and US Approaches to Foreign Policy, Ch. 4, 2014. • Jason W. Davidson, “France, Britain and the Intervention in Libya”, 2013. • Alice Pannier and Olivier Schmitt, “To Fight Another Day: France between the Fight against Terrorism and Future Warfare”, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t75eVvLnn8 (French president Emmanuel Macron lays out France’s foreign policy priorities) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04xx4fUFKZ0 (Is France breaking with its colonial past in Africa?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlMSDHL4f04 (Terrorism in the Sahel: French forces kill IS jihadist leader wanted by US) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RqjM2ij5dc (Indo-Pacific: AUKUS alliance causes anger in France and EU)
5)	GERMANY	• Jessica Bucher et al., “Why France and Germany Diverged over Libya", 2013. • Tuomas Forsberg, “From Ostpolitik to ‘Frostpolitik’?”, 2016. • Patricia Daehnhardt, “German Foreign Policy, the Ukraine Crisis and the Euro-Atlantic Order”, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pn8TVvbqo4 (France and Germany battle rising nationalism by strengthening their alliance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJLzd8EK__g (Angela Merkel - Navigating a world in crisis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnJmjKEWzIg (Germany, US strike Nord Stream 2 compromise deal)
6)	EUROPEAN UNION	• William Wallace, “European Foreign Policy since the Cold War”, 2017. • Paul James Cardwell, “The UK and the CFSP of EU”, 2017. • Mitchell A. Orenstein, “Trojan Horses in EU Foreign Policy”, 2017. • Louise Fawcett, “MENA and the EU”, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJqCn1Xeic (Quo Vadis European foreign policy? A decade of the European External Action Service) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkRXZr3-rko (EU discusses membership hopes for Western Balkans) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo0dFWOMaDM (Right-wing populists and the EU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdR1ZarFT5s (Can the European Union defend itself?)
7)	WRAP UP AND Q&A
8)	RUSSIA	• Emmanuel Karagiannis, “The Russian Interventions in South Ossetia and Crimea Compared”, 2014. • Mark Galeotti, “Hybrid, Ambiguous, and Non-linear?”, 2016. • Vsevolod Samokhvalov, “Russia and Its Shared Neighbourhoods", 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGMUut8I5RM (Russia’s Foreign Policy Record Examined, 1985-Present: A lecture by Dmitri Trenin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PICIKo7jQd8 (Moscow in the Middle East: Putin the power broker?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kbiXVjeMc (Putin: Russia's new nuclear missile is invincible)
9)	CHINA	• Andrea Ghiselli, “Diplomatic Opportunities and Rising Threats", 2018. • Christina Lai, “Acting One Way and Talking Another", 2018. • Richard Aidoo and Steve Hess, “Non-Interference 2.0", 2015. • Bates Gill, “China’s Global Influence: Post-COVID Prospects for Soft Power", 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXVg0Wmn4ts (How Western Failures Are Fueling China’s Rise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zzL2aBo2M (What is China's Belt and Road Initiative? \| Start Here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKXldNsmRaw (What the China-India Border Dispute is Really About)
10)	JAPAN	• Timur Dadabaev, “Silk Road as Foreign Policy Discourse", 2018. • John Lee, “In Defense of the East Asian Regional Order", 2016. • Bahadır Pehlivantürk, “From Peace State to Peacekeeping State", 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BKIkFwdho (Yuichi Hosoya on Japan’s Foreign Policy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKwe4JljVU (Strategic Japan: The Future of Japan-China Relations) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YSHWX1QDnM (How current Japan-South Korea tensions reflect decades of resentment)
11)	INDIA	• Sumit Ganguly and Manjeet S. Pardesi, “Explaining Sixty Years of India’s Foreign Policy", 2009. • Ian Hall, “Multialignment and Indian Foreign Policy under Narendra Modi”, 2016. • Thorsten Wojczewski, “Populism, Hindu Nationalism, and Foreign Policy in India", 2019. • Bhaswati Mukherjee, “India’s Foreign Policy", 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9fuHn3oZUw (PM Narendra Modi’s doctrine on global policies, International relations & domestic politics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76h1N8O8yY (Transformation of 3Cs in India’s Foreign Policy – Capabilities, Credibility and Context) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJY9q3H78c (How India reshaped Kashmir by revoking Article 370)
12)	IRAN	• Mahan Abedin, “The Domestic Determinants of Iranian Foreign Policy", 2011. • Vali Nasr, “Iran among the Ruins", 2018. • Seyed Hossein Mousavian, “Building on the Iran Nuclear Deal for International Peace and Security”, 2018. • Liangxiang Jin, “Iran’s Covid-19 Fight", 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMFCFyOwFI (The Middle East's cold war explained) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGw_1mB6Yk (Can a new president make a difference in Iran?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6rKP0dc3I (Russia and Iran: Wielding Influence in Syria)
13)	BRAZIL	• Andrés Malamud, “Foreign Policy Retreat", 2017. • André Luiz Reis da Silva and José O. Pérez, “Lula, Dilma, and Temer", 2019. • Guilherme Casarões and Daniel Flemes, "Brazil First, Climate Last: Bolsonaro's Foreign Policy", 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygmtAijsT28 (Under Biden, US foreign policy in Latin America likely to shift) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKrthJmcN0&feature=emb_logo (Amazon ‘women warriors’ defend their territory from illegal clearing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZcacLOyMHo (Bolsonaro in Israel: 'A major shift in Brazil's foreign policy')
14)	General Evaluations, Q&A

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Weekly readings will be uploaded on ItsLearning at the beginning of the semester. Please note that all book chapters and articles listed on the syllabus are also accessible through the BAU Library.

The PPT files will be shared on ItsLearning following each class.
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PowerPoint dosyaları, hafta bazında ve işlenen ders sonrasında ItsLearning’e yüklenir.

References:

Youtube videos on related subjects.
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İşlenen konularla ilgili Youtube videoları.

Ders - Program Öğrenme Kazanım İlişkisi

Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları
Program Outcomes
1) Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice.
2) Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies.
3) Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences.
4) Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments.
5) Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy.
6) Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member.
7) Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development.
8) Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies.
9) Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives.
10) Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments.
11) Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era.
12) Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics.

Ders - Öğrenme Kazanımı İlişkisi

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice.	5
2)	Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies.	5
3)	Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences.
4)	Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments.	5
5)	Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy.	5
6)	Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member.	3
7)	Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development.	3
8)	Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies.	5
9)	Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives.	3
10)	Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments.	5
11)	Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era.	5
12)	Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics.	3

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	57
Quizzes	2	1
Midterms	1	1.5
Final	1	1.5
Total Workload		103