American Foreign Policy (IR510) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
American Foreign Policy	IR510	Area Elective	3	0	0	3	5

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective Courses
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	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	-	-
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	20
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	40
Toplam	2	60

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
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	1	2	3	4	5
1	Gains the ability to understand, explain, and apply the basic concepts and methodologies of international relations					X
2	Gains the ability to analyze international relations at a theoretical level				X
3	Gains the ability to interpret current global and national political issues through logical and informed analysis					X
4	Gains the ability to adopt different perspectives on international relations					X
5	Gains the ability to analyze the current and future positions of global and regional actors				X
6	Develops relevant academic and applied research skills in political issues					X
7	Develops the academic writing skills related to the field					X
8	Develops the academic presentation skills related to the field					X
9	Develops analytical thinking and independent research skills					X
10	Develops critical analysis, interpretation, and discussion skills, and adopts an open-minded approach to learning					X
11	Gains the ability to develop arguments.					X
12	Recognizes the importance of lifelong learning					X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	16	2	32
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	20	20
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	25	25
Total Workload			125