GRADUATE SCHOOL
PhD in Political Science and International Relations
PSIR 635 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Foreign Policy Analysis
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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PSIR 635
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
Third Cycle
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| Course Objectives | The main objective of this advanced course is to critically analyze various theoretical perspectives which focus on foreign policy formulation and implementation processes, actors that play a role in these processes and foreign policy instruments. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This advanced course examines the capacity of states to meet their economic and political foreign policy goals. Furthermore, it critically evaluates the domestic and international actors and factors in the making and implementation of foreign policy. The course focuses on political, economic, institutional, social and psychological/ psychoanalytical dimensions of foreign policy. |
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Core Courses | |
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| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | The field of foreign policy analysis | International System level 2) Alexander E. Wendt, "The agent-structure problem in international relations theory." International Organization 41 (Summer 1987):335-70. |
| 3 | Realist FPA State level | Gideon, Rose. (October 1998) Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy World Politics 51 144-72. |
| 4 | Bureaucratic Politics/ Organizational Processes Model | Allison, Graham T.. (September 1969) Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis American Political Science Review 63, 3 689-718. Rhodes, Edward (October 1994) Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy World Politics 47 1-41. Welch, D. (1992) The organizational process and bureaucratic politics paradigm International Security 17: 112-146. |
| 5 | Societal Level Public Opinion | Additional readings provided by the instructor. |
| 6 | Societal Level Interest Groups | Narizny, Kevin “Both Guns and Butter, or Neither: Class Interests in the Political Economy of Rearmament,” American Political Science Review, 97, 2 (May 2003), 203-220 |
| 7 | Media and FPA | Gilboa, Eytan. (1999) Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect International Studies Perspectives 6: 325-341. Kim, Jang Hyun, Tuo-Yu Su, and Junhao Hong. (2007) The Influence of Geopolitics and Foreign Policy on the U.S. and Canadian Media: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Sudan’s Darfur Conflict Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 12: 87-95. |
| 8 | Small Groups | Hermann, Margaret G. (Summer 2001) How Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy: A Theoretical Framework International Studies Review 3, 2 47-82. |
| 9 | Social pressures and polarization | Eric K. Stern, "Probing the Plausibility of Newgroup Syndrome: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs," in Paul 't Hart, Eric K. Stern, and Bengt Sundelius, Beyond Groupthink: Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-Making, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1997, ch. 6. Paul A. Kowert, Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from their Advisors? Albany: State University of New York Press 2002, chs. 1-2, 7. |
| 10 | Leadership | Jervis, Robert “How Decision-Makers Learn from History” in Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (1976), chapter 6. Levy, Jack “Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield,” International Organization 48 (Spring 1994), 279-312. |
| 11 | National Identity, Culture and Norms | Bar-Tal, Daniel, and Dikla Antebi. (1992) Beliefs About Negative Intentions of the World: A Study of the Israeli Siege Mentality Political Psychology 13: 633-645. Hudson, Valerie M. (1999) Cultural Expectations of One's Own and Other Nations' Foreign Policy Action Templates Political Psychology 20: 767-801. |
| 12 | Critical Approaches to Foreign Policy | Price, Richard. (2008) Moral Limit and possibility in world politics, pp: 1-53 |
| 13 | Future of the Discipline | Haukkala, Hiski. (2012) Timing is Everything: The Time, Space, and Strategies for Scholarly Analysis in the Making of Foreign Policy International Studies Perspectives 1‐13. Kaarbo, J. (2003) Foreign policy analysis in the twenty-first century: Back to comparison, forward to identity and ideas, International Studies Review 5: 156-163. |
| 14 | Concluding Remarks | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Reading Material and power point presentations. All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
16
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
1
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40
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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50
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| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
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ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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3
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42
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
1
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80
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80
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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55
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55
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
0
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| Final Exam |
0
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| Total |
225
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able to improve and deepen the theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations. |
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| 2 | To be able to evaluate critically and analytically the relationships between various factors in the discipline of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture at an advanced level. |
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| 3 | To be able to determine the theoretical and empirical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature and gain the ability of questioning at an advanced level. |
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| 4 | To be able to gain the ability to develop innovative, leading and original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature. |
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| 5 | To be able to gather, analyze, and interpret the data by using advanced qualitative or quantitative research methods in Political Science and International Relations. |
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| 6 | To be able to develop original academic works and publish scientific articles in refereed national or international indexed journals in the field of Political Science and International Relations. |
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| 7 | To be able to describe individual research and contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations in written, oral, and visual forms. |
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| 8 | To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity and/or as part of a team in generating innovative and analytical solutions to the problems that arise in relation to the politics in daily life. |
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| 9 | To be able to develop projects in determining the institutional and political instruments for conflict resolution in national and international politics. |
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| 10 | To be able to prepare an original thesis in Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria. |
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| 11 | To be able to follow new research and developments, publish scientific articles and participate the debates in academic meetings in Political Science and International Relations through a foreign language. |
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| 12 | To be able to have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of gathering, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations. |
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