GRADUATE SCHOOL
PhD in Political Science and International Relations
PSIR 672 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Modernity and Its Critics
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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 672
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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 primary purpose of this seminar course is to explore the ways in which the relationship between violence and politics is conceptualised within modern and contemporary political thought. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course will explore the relationship between and violence and politics through a close and critical reading of some the key texts within modern and contemporary political thought. Particular attention will be paid to the following questions: Should we look at the relationship between violence and politics from the perspective of the state or from that of the oppressed? Is violence a necessary aspect of politics? Should we see violence as a justified response to oppression and injustice? Is violence antithetical to politics or constitutive of it? Is assimilation a form of violence? Among the thinkers/writers to be studied are Freud, Sartre, Robespierre, Sorel, Benjamin, Derrida, Schmitt, Fanon and Arendt. |
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WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Primordial Foundations? | Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, “Why War?” |
| 3 | Violence and Imperialism | Arendt, “Imperialism”, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 222-302. Supplementary Reading: Karuna Mantena, “Genealogies of Catastrophe: Arendt on the Logic and Legacy of Imperialism” in Politics in Dark Times, Seyla Benhabib (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 83-112. |
| 4 | Antisemitism | Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew. Supplementary Reading: Michael Walzer, “Preface” (in Anti-Semite and Jew). |
| 5 | Violence and Colonialism | Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, (“Concerning Violence”, 35-106). Supplementary Readings: Sartre, “Preface,” The Wretched of the Earth, 7-31. Richard J. Bernstein, “Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Violence” in Violence: Thinking without Banisters (Polity, 2013), 105-127. |
| 6 | Violence versus Politics | Arendt, “On Violence”, Crises of theRepublic, 103-198. Supplementary Reading: Richard J. Bernstein, “Hannah Arendt: On Violence and Power” in Violence: Thinking without Banisters (Polity, 2013), 78-104. |
| 7 | Paper submission I | |
| 8 | Concentration Camps | Arendt, “Total Domination”, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, Chp. 12, Section 3. |
| 9 | The Holocaust | Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust, Chp. 1, 2 & 3. |
| 10 | The Harm of Genocide | Claudia Card, “Genocide and Social Death”, Hypatia 18, 1 (2003), 63-79. Shmuel Lederman, “A Nation Detsroyed: An Existential Approoach to the Distinctive Harm of Genocide”, Journal of Genocide Research 19, 1 (2017), 112-132. |
| 11 | Paper submission II | |
| 12 | Politics of Memory I | Duncan Bell, “Memory, Trauma and World Politics” in Duncan Bell (ed) Memory, Truma and World Politics (Palgrave, 2006), 1-29. Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, “Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory”, European Journal of Social Theory 5, 1 (2002), 87-106. |
| 13 | Politics of Memory II | Aleida Assmann, “Europe: A Community of Memory?” GHI Bulletin 40 (2007), 11-25. Tzvetan Todorov, “Memory as Remedy for Evil”, Journal of International Criminal Justice 7 (2009), 447-462. |
| 14 | Paper submission III | |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Books and articles listed above All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
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EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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20
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
3
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60
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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20
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| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
5
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100
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| 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 |
10
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8
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80
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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 |
3
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25
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75
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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22
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22
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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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