FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

Course Description

This course focuses on the ways and methods of thinking critically about foreign policy analysis. With the help of history as well as current examples from world affairs, the course analyse various theoretical approaches to foreign policy-making. Thus this course will enable students to assess the multidimensional issues that foreign policy makers face and solve. During the course sessions the students are expected to analyse the multiple reasons that affect the inter-state and international relations through the theoretical and practical knowledge that are presented to them. Levels of analysis such as individual decision-makers, decision-making within the teams, the interdependence between the domestic policies and foreign policies will be main topics of this course.

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

Course outcomes

1. 01 Focusing on the ways and methods of thinking critically about foreign policy analysis ( (5).
2. 02 Enabling students to asess the multidimensional issues that foreign policy makers face and solve (5).
3. 03 Analyzing multiple reasons that affect the inter-state and international relations through the theoretical and practical knowledge that are presented to them (5).
4. 04 . Enabling the students to discuss the reasons of foreing policy choices and behaviors (5).

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Laura Neack. Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively : Cases and Analysis. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Focusing on the ways and methods of thinking critically about foreign policy analysis SOLO 5
2. L02 Enabling students to assess the multidimensional issues that foreign policy makers face and solve SOLO 5
3. L03 Analyzing multiple reasons that affect the inter-state and international relations through the theoretical and practical knowledge that are presented to them SOLO 5
4. L04 Enabling the students to discuss the reasons of foreing policy choices and behaviors SOLO 5

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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