| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Relevance of Political Science Today |
• Jean Blondel and Pascal Vennesson, “The Future of Political Science”, European Political Science, 9 (2010).
• John E. Trent, “Should Political Science Be More Relevant? An Empirical and Critical Analysis of the Discipline”, European Political Science, 10 (2011).
• Polly Sly, “The Nonsense and Non-Science of Political Science: A Politically Incorrect View of Poly-Tricks”, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 8:1 (2018).
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| 2) |
State |
• “State Capacity: How It is Measured and Compared”, HSE Report, 2019. Available at https://iq.hse.ru/en/news/298326722.html
• Moisés Naim, “Five Wars of Globalization,” American University International Law Review, 18 (2002).
• Barry Buzan and George Lawson, “Capitalism and the Emergent World Order,” International Affairs 90:1 (2014).
• Katharine Hall Kindervater, “Drone Strikes, Ephemeral Sovereignty, and Changing Conceptions of Territory”, Territory, Politics, Governance, 5:2 (2017).
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| 3) |
Democracy |
• Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, New York: Doubleday, 2003, Chp. Introduction.
• Bartosz M. Rydliński, “Viktor Orbán - First Among Illiberals? Hungarian and Polish Steps Towards Populist Democracy”, Online Journal: Modelling the New Europe, 26 (2018)
• Eunjung Choi and Jongseok Woo, “Confucian Legacies and the Meaning of Democracy in South Korea: A Cultural Interpretation”, Korea Observer, 49:3 (2018).
• Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler et al., “Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Predicament of Liberal Democracy in the United States”, SSRN Paper, August 21, 2017.
• Murat Somer, Understanding Turkey’s Democratic Breakdown: Old vs. New and Indigenous vs. Global Authoritarianism”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 16:4 (2016).
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| 4) |
Religion |
• Oliver Hidalgo, “Religious Backgrounds of Illiberal Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” RASCEE, 12:1 (2019).
• Victor Roudometof, “Glocal Religions: An Introduction”, Religions, 9:294 (2018).
• Özlem Sandıkçı, “Religion and the Marketplace: Constructing the ‘new’ Muslim Consumer”, Religion, 48:3 (2018).
• Osman Antwi-Boateng, “Rise of Pan-Islamic Terrorism in Africa: A Global Security Challenge”, Politics & Polity, 45:2 (2017).
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| 5) |
Political Culture |
• Marija Andreeva, “(Re)shaping Political Culture and Participation through Social Networks”, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 5:2 (2019).
• Macabe Keliher and Hsinchao Wu, “Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Transformation of Political Culture in Contemporary China”, The Journal of Asian Studies, 75:1 (2016).
• Michal Onderco and Wolfgang Wagner, “The Ideational Foundations of Coercion: Political Culture and Policies towards North Korea”, European Political Science Review, 9:’ (2017).
• Cosmina Moghior, “The Political Culture in the Cyberspace: Profiling the Cyber Security”, Europolity, 12:1 (2018).
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| 6) |
Poblic Opinion and Electoral Behavior |
• Timothy Frye, “Economic Sanctions and Public Opinion: Survey Experiments from Russia”, Comparative Political Studies, 52:7 (2019).
• Desirée Schmuck and Jörg Matthes, “Voting “Against Islamization”? How Anti-Islamic Right-Wing, Populist Political Campaign Ads Influence Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward Muslims as Well as Voting Preferences,” Political Psychology 40:4 (2019).
• Brian Greenhill, “How can International Organizations Shape Public Opinion? Analysis of a pair of Survey-based Experiments”, The Review of International Organizations, 15 (2020).
• Andreas Dür, “How Interest Groups Influence Public Opinion: Arguments Matter More Than the Sources”, European Journal of Political Research, 58:2 (2018).
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| 7) |
Midterm Exam |
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| 8) |
Social Movements |
• Lauren Langman and Tova Benski, “Global Justice Movements: Past, Present, and the Future”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 301-324.
• Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy, “Global Social Movements and World Revolutions in the Twenty-First Century”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 427-446.
• Jackie Smith, Samantha Plummer and Melanie M. Hughes, “Transnational Social Movements and Changing Organizational Fields in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries,” Global Networks, 17:1 (2017).
• Lucy Martin, “Widespread Unrest in South America: Latin Spring or Isolated Protests?” The Boar (Univ. of Warwick), December 19, 2019. Available at: https://theboar.org/2019/12/widespread-unrest-in-south-america-latin-spring-or-isolated-protests/
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| 9) |
Nationalism |
• Berch Berberoğlu, “Nationalism and Nationalist Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 269-298.
• Mark Juergensmeyer, “Religious Nationalism in a Global World”, Religions, 10:97 (2019).
• Natalie Koch and Tom Perreault, “Resource Nationalism”, Progress in Human Geography, 43:4 (2019).
• Jan-Werner Müller, “False Flags: The Myth of the Nationalist Resurgence”, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2019.
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| 10) |
Fascism |
• Sheri Berman, “Populism is not Fascism: But It Could Be a Harbinger”, Foreign Affairs, 95 (2016).
• Daniele Caramani and Luca Manucci, “National Past and Populism: The Reelaboration of Fascism and its Impact on Right-wing Populism in Western Europe”, West European Politics, 42:6 (2019).
• William I. Robinson, “Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype”, Science & Society, 83:2 (2019).
• Jerry Harris, “The Future of Globalization: Neo-fascism or the Green New Deal?” Race & Class, 61:1 (2019).
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| 11) |
Socialism |
• “The Resurgent Left: Millennial Socialism”, The Economist, February 14, 2019.
• Alex Newman, “UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism”, The New American, January 4, 2016.
• Ronaldo Munck, “Rethinking the Left: A View from Latin America”, Global Discourse (2018).
• Jerry Harris, “China’s Road from Socialism to Global Capitalism”, Third World Quarterly, 39:9 (2018).
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| 12) |
Feminism |
• Dinah Musindarwezo, “The 2030 Agenda from a Feminist Perspective: No Meaningful Gains without Greater Accountability for Africa’s Women”, Agenda, 32:1 (2018).
• Éva Fodor, Christy Glass and Beáta Nagy, “Transnational Business Feminism: Exporting Feminism in the Global Economy”, Gender, Work & Organization, 26 (2019).
• Kim Barker and Olga Jurasz, “Online Misogyny: A Challenge for Digital Feminism?” Journal of International Affairs, 72:2 (2019).
• Rosalind Gill, Post-postfeminism?: New Feminist Visibilities in Postfeminist Times”, Feminist Media Studies, 16:4 (2016).
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| 13) |
Green Politics |
• Jeffrey A. Ewing, “Hollow Ecology: Ecology Modernization Theory and the Death of Nature”, Journal of World Systems Research 23:1 (2017).
• Jerry Harris, “Can China’s Green Socialism Transform Global Capitalism?” Civitas, 19:2 (2019).
• Enrique Leff, “Power-Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology”, Ambiente & Sociedade, 20:3 (2017).
• Özge Yaka. “A Feminist-phenomenology of Women’s Activism against Hydropower Plants in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region”, Gender, Place & Culture, 24:6 (2017).
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| 14) |
Presentations |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication. |
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To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level. |
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To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them. |
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To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends. |
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To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner. |
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| 6) |
To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents. |
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| 7) |
To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. |
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| 8) |
To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit. |
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| 9) |
To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. |
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| 10) |
To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels. |
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