FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
- Course
- INRE602 - FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
- Department
- International Relations - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
- -
Course Description
This course provides the students of International Relations a research facility that enhances their analytical and reasoning skills in understanding the key concepts and ideas about foreign policy-making in a systematic and theoretical way. By emphasizing all the perspectives and approaches on Foreign Policy Analysis, the course aims to provide the conceptual debates on different foreign policies of selected countries as a field of study. In this respect, the course on foreign policy analysis is primarily centered on the processes, effects, causes, and outputs of foreign policy decision-making both in a comparative and case-specific manner.
FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | Issues in Foreign Policy |
| Week 3 | Why we study Foreign Policy-Comperatively? |
| Week 4 | Role of Local Actors in Shaping Foreign Policy- Leaders |
| Week 5 | Role of Local Actors in Shaping Foreign Policy- Leaders |
| Week 6 | Domestic units and factors |
| Week 7 | The Role of Advisors and Bureaucracies |
| Week 8 | Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy Making |
| Week 9 | International Constraints on Foreign Policy Making |
| Week 10 | Who or What Determines Foreign Policy? |
| Week 11 | Domestic Influences-Public Opinion and Media |
| Week 12 | Great Powers-Competitors and Allies |
| Week 13 | How Leaders Make Sense of the World |
| Week 14 | International Politics vs. Foreign Policy-Ethics Approach on Foreign Policy |
| Week 15 | Review |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Marijke Breuning, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction McGraw-Hill, First Edition, 2007.
- 02 Neack, L. The New Foreign Policy Analysis-Complex Interactions, Competing Interests, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., Third Ed., USA: 2014
- 03 Waltz, K. "International politics is not foreign policy," Security Studies, 6, no. 1, Autumn 1996, pp. 54-57
- 04 Hudson, V. M. Vore C.S. “Foreign Policiy Analysis Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Mershon International Studies Review, (1995), 39, 209-238
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