CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES

Course Description

This course aims to analyze security studies with a specific focus on the critical approaches to international security and new conceptual tools developed in the post- the Cold War era. The objectives of this course are to provide the students with awareness of key debates and knowledge of issues in the new security agenda in a theoretical perspective. The course also aims to develop analytical and critical skills of the undergraduate students to comprehend and discuss the specific cases in the changing conceptual/theoretical framework of International Security by referring to different sectors of security such as military, economy, society, politics, energy and environment

CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

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Course outcomes

1. 01 This course will provide students basic tools to evaluate cases within Security Perspectives. (5)
2. 02 Students will interpret the differences between Traditional and Critical Security Studies. (2)
3. 03 Student will identify post-positivist and positivist theoretical perspectives in Security Studies. (3)
4. 04 Solo Taxonomy: 5+3+2:3=3.33

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Mustafa Aydın v.d. (Der.), Uluslararası İlişkilerde Çatışmadan Güvenliğe, 2. Baskı, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul: 2015 (For Turkish Groups)
2. 02 Paul D. Williams (Ed.), 2008, Security Studies: An Introduction Abingdon: Routledge.
3. 03 Columba Peoples and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, Routledge, 2010.

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 The course will provide students with basic tools for reading and analyzing primary issues in CSS SOLO 4
2. L02 Students will gain the ability to categorize the differences between traditional and critical security studies SOLO 4
3. L03 Students will understand and interpret the post-positivist approaches in social sciences. SOLO 3

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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