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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| POL4858 | Comparative Foreign Policy | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Hybrid |
| Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| 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. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Differentiate between comparative politics and comparative foreign policy; 2. Define foreign policy making actors, processes and priorities of major states; 3. Trace the historical continuity and change behind contemporary foreign policy motives and practices; 4. Evaluate the effectiveness of major states' foreign policy preferences; 5. Develop competencies with respect to active inquiry and critical thinking. |
| Introduction to comparative foreign policy; United States of America; United Kingdom; France; Germany; the European Union; Russia; China; Japan; India; Iran; Brazil. |
| 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 |
| 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. -- Haftalık ders okumalarının tamamı, dönem başında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. Ders izlencesinde yer alan tüm kitap bölümleri ve makalelere BAU Kütüphanesi’nden de erişilebilir. PowerPoint dosyaları, hafta bazında ve işlenen ders sonrasında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. |
| References: | Youtube videos on related subjects. -- İşlenen konularla ilgili Youtube videoları. |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | To be able to examine, interpret data and assess ideas with the scientific methods in the area of EU studies. | 3 |
| 2) | To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of EU studies, to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems. | 3 |
| 3) | To be introduced to and to get involved in other disciplines that EU studies are strongly related with (political science, international relations, law, economics, sociology, etc.) and to be able to conduct multi-disciplinary research and analysis on European politics. | 3 |
| 4) | To be able to evaluate current news on European Union and Turkey-EU relations and identify, analyze current issues relating to the EU’s politics and policies. | 3 |
| 5) | To be able to use English in written and oral communication in general and in the field of EU studies in particular. | 3 |
| 6) | To have ethical, social and scientific values throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to EU studies. | 3 |
| 7) | To be able to assess the historical development, functioning of the institutions and decision-making system and common policies of the European Union throughout its economic and political integration in a supranational framework. | 3 |
| 8) | To be able to evaluate the current legal, financial and institutional changes that the EU is going through. | 3 |
| 9) | To explain the dynamics of enlargement processes of the EU by identifying the main actors and institutions involved and compare previous enlargement processes and accession process of Turkey. | 3 |
| 10) | To be able to analyze the influence of the EU on political, social and economic system of Turkey. | 3 |
| 11) | To acquire insight in EU project culture and to build up project preparation skills in line with EU format and develop the ability to work in groups and cooperate with peers. | 3 |
| 12) | To be able to recognize theories and concepts used by the discipline of international relations and relate them to the historical development of the EU as a unique post-War political project. | 3 |