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    PSIR 635 | Course Introduction and Application Information

    Course Name
    Foreign Policy Analysis
    Code
    Semester
    Theory
    (hour/week)
    Application/Lab
    (hour/week)
    Local Credits
    ECTS
    PSIR 635
    Fall/Spring
    3
    0
    3
    7.5

    Prerequisites
    None
    Course Language
    English
    Course Type
    Elective
    Course Level
    Third Cycle
    Mode of Delivery -
    Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course -
    National Occupation Classification -
    Course Coordinator -
    Course Lecturer(s)
    Assistant(s) -
    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;

    • classify theories in relation to foreign policy
    • identify the motivations of actors formulating foreign policy
    • discuss main objectives of states in the international arena
    • explain the steps of rational model
    • identify the actors who play a role in foreign policy formulation process from a Liberal perspective
    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.
    Related Sustainable Development Goals

     



    Course Category

    Core Courses
    Major Area Courses
    Supportive Courses
    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
    10
    Laboratory / Application
    Field Work
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    Portfolio
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    40
    Presentation / Jury
    1
    50
    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
    Total

    ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

    Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
    Theoretical Course Hours
    (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
    16
    3
    48
    Laboratory / Application Hours
    (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
    16
    0
    Study Hours Out of Class
    14
    3
    42
    Field Work
    0
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    0
    Portfolio
    0
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    80
    80
    Presentation / Jury
    1
    55
    55
    Project
    0
    Seminar / Workshop
    0
    Oral Exam
    0
    Midterms
    0
    Final Exam
    0
        Total
    225

     

    COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

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    Program Competencies/Outcomes
    * Contribution Level
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    1

    To be able to improve and deepen the theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations.

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    X
    -
    -
    -
    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.

    -
    -
    X
    -
    -
    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.

    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    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.

    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    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.

    -
    -
    X
    -
    -
    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.

    -
    -
    X
    -
    -
    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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    -
    X
    -
    -
    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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    -
    -
    -
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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.

    X
    -
    -
    -
    -
    10

    To be able to prepare an original thesis in Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria.

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    -
    X
    -
    -
    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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    -
    -
    -
    -

    *1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest


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