UİK 511 International Security and Strategy

This course is built upon core issues of war, security and strategy. In this context, classical and modern perceptions of security will be introduced to students. Strategies that are followed in pre-war and post-war periods as well as how peace might be protected will be discussed comparatively. The course aims to equip students with skills to analyze the likelihood of conflict and conflict situations in world politics.

UİK 515 Turkey’s Relations with Middle East and Africa

In this course, the problems that Turkey faced in the Middle East and Africa since the founding of the Republic of Turkey will be discussed. We will go over Ankara’s foreign policy decisions regarding the region in light of the domestic and foreign constraints and problems Turkey faces. In this process, we will gain a better understanding of how problems pertaining to Middle East and Africa have shaped Turkish domestic and foreign policies.

UİK 507 Turkey - EU Relations

This course is about Turkey-EU relations since 1963. In this context, the Ankara agreement, Additional Protocol and decisions of Customs Union will be examined in detail. We will also discuss about how Turkey adopts to the common policies and which reforms it has undertaken and will need to undertake in the process to full membership. In this context, Accession Partnerships, National Programs, Progress Reports and integration packages will be reviewed in detail.

UİK 513 International Political Economy

International political economy is a discipline that emerges at the intersection of economy, politics and international relations. The course introduces different theoretical perspectives as well as empirical material on the relationship between politics and economics. It also reviews the literature on international economic structure and dynamics of the system as set by theoretical approaches and concepts such as mercantilism, liberalism, dependency and world-systems analysis.

UİK 519 Globalization and International Organizations

The main purpose of this course is to examine the international organizations which constitute an important place in the emergence of the discipline of international relations. The course will go over the objectives, structures, and functions of intergovernmental organizations that have become important international actors such as the United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European Union, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

UIK 509 International Relations Theory

This course examines international relations theories in a critical manner and aims to enable students to analyze the complexity of the empirical world by using these theories. Initially, the course discusses the methodological relationship between natural sciences and social sciences and elaborates the historical dimensions and figures of the international relations discipline. In this context, it stress on the classical and neo versions of realism, liberalism, and Marxism, followed by critical approaches such as constructivism and post-positivism.

UIK 520 Contemporary Issues in International Politics

The aim of this course is to provide students with the core historical, socio-economic and political aspects and analyses of the contemporary issues of international and regional politics such as: global warming politics, environmental security and politics, global water politics, global energy politics, international migration and asylum, and contemporary politics in the Middle East, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Africa and Far East.

UİK 504 Turkish Foreign Policy

This course discusses the mechanisms and logic of foreign policy-making in Turkey since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in the framework of foreign policy analysis approach. First, foreign policy analysis that is a sub-branch of the discipline of International Relations will be introduced to students with a focus on the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy. Then, factors influencing the formation of Turkish foreign policy and Turkey's basic foreign policy principles will be examined in a historical context.

UİK 546 EU Law and Decision-making Mechanisms

This course provides fundamental information about the European Union law and institutions as well as the functioning of the decision-making mechanisms. The study includes the content and features of the European Union Law, principal institutions and the organs of the Union, various steps of the decision-making process as well as the evolution of the institutional structures through the Single European Act and the Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon Treaties.

UİK 524 Turkey - U.S. Relations

The course will review the history of political, economic, military relations between a regional power-Turkey- and the international system’s dominant power - U.S. - from various theoretical perspectives. We will also focus on how the relationship between these two countries has changed over time as well as the reasons that might have led to the changes in question.

UİK 526 International Norms of Human Rights and Turkey

This course will first introduce to students the internationally recognized principles of human rights, which is one of the basic elements of advanced democracies. In the light of this background information, students will discuss Turkey's human rights issues from a critical perspective and will try to develop solutions to the problems.

UİK 522 Research Methods in Social Sciences

This class aims to teach students to design and use the appropriate methodology and methods to carry out research. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to practical issues such as how to design a social research project, how to do a literature review and how to choose the techniques that can be used in qualitative and quantitative research. We shall also read about topics such as scientific objectivity, the character of scientific observation, reasoning and progress, the role of interests and values in science, and what we aim in acquiring knowledge and doing research as social scientists.