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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: | Non-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) | Integrates the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired from basic and clinical medical sciences, behavioral sciences and social sciences, and uses them in health service delivery. | |
| 2) | In patient management, shows a biopsychosocial approach that takes into account the socio-demographic and sociocultural background of the individual, regardless of language, religion, race and gender. | |
| 3) | In the provision of health services, prioritizes the protection and development of the health of individuals and society. | |
| 4) | Taking into account the individual, societal, social and environmental factors affecting health; does the necessary work to maintain and improve the state of health. | |
| 5) | By recognizing the characteristics, needs and expectations of the target audience, provides health education to healthy/sick individuals and their relatives and other healthcare professionals. | |
| 6) | Shows a safe, rational and effective approach in health service delivery, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes. | |
| 7) | Performs invasive and/or non-invasive procedures in diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes in a safe and effective way for the patient. | |
| 8) | Provides health services by considering patient and employee health and safety. | |
| 9) | In the provision of health services, takes into account the changes in the physical and socioeconomic environment on a regional and global scale, as well as the changes in the individual characteristics and behaviors of the people who apply to it. | |
| 10) | Takes good medical practice into account while carrying out his/her profession. | |
| 11) | Fulfills its duties and obligations within the framework of ethical principles, rights and legal responsibilities required by its profession. | |
| 12) | Demonstrates decisive behavior in providing high-quality health care, taking into account the integrity of the patient. | |
| 13) | Evaluates his/her performance in his/her professional practice by considering his/her emotions and cognitive characteristics. | |
| 14) | Advocates improving the provision of health services by considering the concepts of social reliability and social responsibility for the protection and development of public health. | |
| 15) | Can plan and carry out service delivery, training and consultancy processes related to individual and community health in cooperation with all components for the protection and development of health. | |
| 16) | Evaluates the impact of health policies and practices on individual and community health indicators and advocates increasing the quality of health services. | |
| 17) | The physician attaches importance to the protection of his/her own physical, mental and social health, and does what is necessary for this | |
| 18) | Shows exemplary behavior and leads the healthcare team during service delivery. | |
| 19) | Uses resources cost-effectively, for the benefit of society and in accordance with the legislation, in the planning, implementation and evaluation processes of health services in the health institution he/she is the manager of. | |
| 20) | Establishes positive communication within the health team it serves and assumes different team roles when necessary. | |
| 21) | Is aware of the duties and responsibilities of the health workers in the health team and acts accordingly. | |
| 22) | In the professional practices, works in harmony and effectively with the colleagues and other professional groups. | |
| 23) | Communicates effectively with patients, their relatives, healthcare professionals, other professional groups, institutions and organizations. | |
| 24) | Communicates effectively with individuals and groups that require a special approach and have different socio-cultural characteristics. | |
| 25) | In the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes, shows a patient-centered approach that associates the patient with the decision-making mechanisms. | |
| 26) | Plans and implements scientific research, when necessary, for the population it serves, and uses the results and/or the results of other research for the benefit of the society. | |
| 27) | Reaches and critically evaluates current literature knowledge about his/her profession. | |
| 28) | Applies the principles of evidence-based medicine in clinical decision making. | |
| 29) | Uses information technologies to increase the effectiveness of its work on health care, research and education. | |
| 30) | Effectively manages individual work processes and career development. | |
| 31) | Demonstrates skills in acquiring and evaluating new knowledge, integrating it with existing knowledge, applying it to professional situations and adapting to changing conditions throughout professional life. | |
| 32) | Selects the right learning resources to improve the quality of the health service it offers, organizes its own learning process |