American Foreign Policy (IR510) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
American Foreign Policy IR510 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
none
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Social Sciences Master's Degree
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Question and Answer, Problem Solving, Team/Group.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nilgün Eliküçük Yıldırım
Course Assistants
Course Objectives - to examine the historical determinants of American foreign policy - to investigate the current unfolding of the American global hegemony
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To have knowledge about the American foreign policy during and the Cold War.
  • To acquire fundamental conceptual and theoretical background in Turkish American relations.
  • To develop students’ key skills in: studying, understanding and discussing conceptual and theoretical issues; applying concepts and theories in the analysis of foreign policy; writing and presenting their analyses on specific matters; and participating in group discussions.
Course Content The development of American foreign policy in the twentieth century, during and after the Cold War, Turkish American Relations -Cold War, a new geopolitics.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 A general introduction to the course
2 Who won the Cold War? Ikenberry, 625-36.
3 American National Security Concept and the Start of the Cold War Ikenberry, 140-167.
4 Cold war Bostanoğlu 2008, Morales 1994
5 After the Cold War Leffler and Legro 2011, Ikenberry 1996, Ikenbery 2001, ch. 7.
6 End of American Hegemony? Nye 2006, Nye 2010, Mann 2004
7 American-European Relations Moore and Vaudagna 2003
8 Visa exam
9 Turkish American Relations – Cold War Karpat 2012
10 Post– Cold War Turkish American Relations Gilbert 2004,
11 Turkish American Relations and the Middle East Gilbert 2004
12 A new geopolitics Brzezinski 2012.
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations
15 Review
16 Final exam

Sources

Course Book 1. John Ikenberry (ed), American Foreign Policy Theoretical Essays, (New York: Harper Collins), 1996.
Other Sources 2. • Burcu Bostanoğlu, Türkiye-Amerikan İlişkilerinin Politikası, (Ankara: İmge), 2008.
3. • Frank Ninkovich, “The New Empire,” The Imperial Moment içinde, (ed) Kimberly Kagan, (Cambridge: Harvard UP), 2010.
4. • Ikenberry, “The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos,” Foreign Affairs, 75:3 (1996), 79-91.
5. • Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, (Princeton: Princeton UP), 2001.
6. • Joseph Nye, “The Future of American Power,” Foreign Affairs, 2010.
7. • Joseph Nye, “Transformational Leadership and US Grand Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, 2006.
8. • Kemal Karpat, Türk Dış Politikası Tarihi, (İstanbul: Timaş), 2012.
9. • Mann, “Delusions of Empire: Recent Neo-Conservative and Neo-Liberal Writings on American Foreign Policy,” Socio-Economic Review, 2 (2004), 391-404.
10. • Marc Jason Gilbert, “Fatal Amnesia: American Nation-Building in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq,” Journal of Third World Studies, 21:2 (2004), 13- 43.
11. • Melvyn P. Leffler & Jeffrey W. Legro (eds), In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11, (New York, Cornell University Press), 2011.
12. • Morales, “US Intervention and the New World Order: Lessons from Cold War and Post-Cold War Cases,” Third World Quarterly, 15:1 (1994), 77-101.
13. • R. Lavrence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, The American Century in Europe, (Ithaca: Cornell UP), 2003.
14. • Robert O. Keohane, “Hegemony and After,” Foreign Affairs, 2012.
15. • Rosenau, “Illusions of Power and Empire,” History and Theory, 44 (2005), 73-87.
16. • Stratfor, “The Geopolitics of the US, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire,”
17. • Zgibniew Brzezinsky, Stratejik Vizyon: Amerika ve Küresel Güç Buhranı, (İstanbul: Timaş) 2012.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 1 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 1 30
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 20
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 4 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Acquiring the skills of understanding, explaining, and using the fundamental concepts and methodology of international relations. X
2 Acquiring the skills of analyzing international relations from a theoretical level. X
3 Acquiring the ability to make logical interpretations about the recent either global or national political events. X
4 Acquiring different perspectives on international relations. X
5 Improving the ability to make analyses about the current and future prospects of global and regional actors. X
6 Developing relevant academic and applied research skills in political areas. X
7 To improve the academic writing skills pertaining to the academic area. X
8 To improve the academic presentation skills pertaining to the academic area. X
9 To improve analytical thinking and independent research skills. X
10 Acquiring an open-minded behavior through encouraging critical analysis, interpretation, discussions, and/or continuous learning. X
11 Improving the ability to effectively develop arguments. X
12 Understanding importance of lifelong learning X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 15 6 90
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 1 27 27
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 20 20
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 40 40
Total Workload 177