| Course Name |
Foreign Relations of the EU
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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PSIR 509
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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 |
-
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| Course Objectives | |
| Course Description |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content |
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Core Courses |
X
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| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Understanding European Integration | 1) Moravcsik, Andrew “Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach,” Journal of Common Market Studies 31 (1993), pp: 473-524. 2) Pierson, Paul “The Path to European Integration; A Historical Institutionalist Analysis, Comparative Political Studies 29:2 (1996), pp: 123-163. |
| 3 | Institutional Structure of the EU Policy Making: Three Pillars I | 1) Wallace, Hellen An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp: 49-90. 2) Hill, Christopher and William Wallace Actors and Actions in Christopher Hill, (ed.), The Actors in Europe’s Foreign Policy (Routledge, 1996), pp: 116 and 288-304. |
| 4 | Institutional Structure of the EU Policy Making: Three Pillars II | 1) Smith, Karen E. EU External Relations in Michelle Cini (ed.), European Union Politics (Oxford, 2005), pp: 229-245. 2) Bretherton, Charlotte and John Vogler. The European Union as a Global Actor (London, 1999), pp: 15-45. |
| 5 | EU Enlargement I | 1) Schimmelfennig, Frank and Ulrich Sedelmeier, “Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus, hypotheses, and the state of research,” Journal of European Public Policy 9:4 (August 2002), pp: 500-528. 2) Bieler, Andreas. “The struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integration,” Journal of European Public Policy 9:4 (August 2002), pp: 575-597. |
| 6 | EU Enlargement II | 1) Schimmelfennig, Frank “The Community trap: liberal norms, rhetorical action, and the eastern enlargement of the European Union,” International Organization 55:1 (Winter 2002), pp: 47–80. 2) Glenn, John. EU Enlargement in Michelle Cini (ed.), European Union Politics (Oxford, 2005), pp:211-228 |
| 7 | Midterm Exam | |
| 8 | European Common Foreign and Security Policy | 1) Wallace, William. Foreign and Security Policy in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp:429-456. 2) Gordon, Philip, “Europe’s Uncommon Foreign Policy,” International Security 22:3 (Winter 1997/98), pp: 74-100. |
| 9 | Transatlantic Relations | 1) Kagan, Robert “Power and Weakness,” Policy Review 113 (June/July 2002), pp: 328. 2) Kupchan, Charles “The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy,” Political Science Quarterly 118 (Summer 2003), pp: 205-231. |
| 10 | European Trade Policy | 1) Woolcock, Stephen Trade Policy in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp: 377-400. 2)Young, Alasdair R. “The Adaptation of European Foreign Economic Policy: From Rome to Seattle,” Journal of Common Market Studies 38:1 (March 2000), pp: 93-116. |
| 11 | Development Aid Policy | 1) Elgström, Ole “Norm negotiations: The construction of new norms regarding gender and development in EU foreign aid policy,” Journal of European Public Policy 7:3 (September 2000), pp: 457-476. 2)Forwood, Genevra. “The Road to Cotonou: Negotiating a Successor to Lomé,” Journal of Common Market Studies 39:3 (September 2001), pp: 423-442 |
| 12 | EU’s Neighborhood Policy | 1) FerreroWaldner, Benita “The European Neighbourhood Policy:The EU’s Newest Foreign Policy Instrument” European Foreign Affairs Review 11: (2006) pp:139–142. 2)Berg, Eiki and Piret Ehin “What Kind of Border Regime is in the Making?: Towards a Differentiated and Uneven Border Strategy” Cooperation and Conflict, 41:3 (2006) pp. 53-71. |
| 13 | Human Rights as the Bases of EU’s Identity | 1) Youngs, Richard “Normative Dynamics and Strategic Interests in the EU’s External Identity,” Journal of Common Market Studies 42:2 (June 2004), pp:415-436. 2) Clapham, Andrew Where is the EU’s Human Rights Common Foreign Policy and How is it Manifested in Multilateral Fora? in Philip Alston (ed.), The EU and Human Rights (Oxford, 1999) pp: 627-683. |
| 14 | Concluding Remarks | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Reading Material and power point presentations |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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20
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| Project |
1
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30
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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20
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| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 70 |
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 30 |
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| Total |
| 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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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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3
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| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
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6
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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| Project |
1
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70
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms |
1
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40
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| Final Exam | |||
| Total |
230
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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| 1 | To improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and to ultimately deepen and develop intellectual interest | X | ||||
| 2 | To evaluate the relationships between factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture in a critical perspective | X | ||||
| 3 | To provide advanced competences to determine and question the theoretical and emprical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
| 4 | To identify the political and cultual conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnic groups, gender and religion at national and international levels | X | ||||
| 5 | To provide competences to develop original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | |||||
| 6 | To determine, collect, resolve, and interpret the data that would measure the theories and concepts as variables by using scientific research methods in Political Science and International Relations field | X | ||||
| 7 | To use confidently the terms and concepts of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
| 8 | To communicate systematically, in written, oral, and visual forms, contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations to groups inside and outside the said discipline | |||||
| 9 | To take responsibility in an individual capacity and as part of a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise in relation to politics in daily life | |||||
| 10 | To develop projects determining the institutional and political instruments for management of domestic and international conflicts | X | ||||
| 11 | To prepare an orginal thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations in accordance with scentific criteria | X | ||||
| 12 | To design and carry out a scientific research project in the field of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
| 13 | To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
