COURSE SYLLABUS

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

1	Course Title:	INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
2	Course Code:	ULI5108
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. KAMURAN REÇBER
16	Course Lecturers:	Doç.Dr. Barış ÖZDAL
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Professor Kamuran REÇBER e-mail: recber@uludag.edu.tr Tel.: 0224 2941059 Address: Uludag University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of International Relations 16059 Gorukle-BURSA
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	In this course, acquiring knowledge of students about Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of European Union (EU) via contributing other courses which was taken or will be taken courses about EU during post-graduate education by students spesificly. In this context, historical development of organization process in the World and Europe will be explained in consideration of periods to constitute theorical substructure primarily via exclipating some concepts such as threat, risk, security perception,..etc in accordance with integration and sovereignty theories. After explaining theorical and historical backround, legislation about CFSP and ESDP from the beginning of founding European Communities (EC) and European Union (EU) which was constituted with Single European Act (SEA), Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon, will be explicated comparatively. Also, related to content of course, impacts of CFSP and ESDP on process full EU membership of Turkey will be analyzed.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	To be able to use concepts such as security, defence, foreign policy, threat, risk and perception of security,…etc appropriately;
2	To be able to construct formations and substructures which students took or will take courses during post-graduate education about EU to contribute properly.;
3	To be able to explicate the Process of constituting CFSP and ESPD in EU comparatively and to be able to determine Turkey-EU Relations in this context;
4	To be able to interpret current issues about CFSP and ESPD via reading sources in Turkish and Foreign literature.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Explaining basic concepts: Security, Defence, Foreign Policy, Risk, Threat, Danger,…etc
2	Organization History of Europe
3	Progress of Sovereignity as a concept
4	Process of constituting coorperation about Security in Europe
5	Process of constituting coorperation about Foreign Policy in Europe
6	Establishment of EU and Development of CFSP
7	Treaty of Amsterdam and Development of CFSP
8	Treaty of Nice and Development of CFSP
9	Treaty of Lisbon and Development of CFSP
10	USA-EU Relations in the context of ESDP
11	NATO-EU Relations in the context of ESDP
12	Russian Federation-EU Relations in the context of ESDP
13	Turkey-EU Relations in the context of ESDP
14	Analyzing recent issues related to ESDP

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Barış ÖZDAL, Mehmet GENÇ, Avrupa Güvenlik Ve Savunma Politikası’nın Türkiye – AB İlişkilerine Etkileri, Bursa: Alfa Akademi Basım Yayım, 1. Baskı: Şubat 2005. Barış ÖZDAL, " Türkiye – Avrupa Birliği İlişkilerinde Avrupa Güvenlik ve Savunma Politikası’nın Rolü”, Stratejik Araştırmalar Dergisi Genelkurmay ATASE ve Genelkurmay Denetleme Başkanlığı Yayınları, Yıl 3, Sayı: 5, Temmuz 2005, ss. 305-324. Barış ÖZDAL, “Lizbon Reform Andlaşması’nın Ortak Güvenlik ve Savunma Politikası’na İlişkin Düzenlemelerinin Analizi”, Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi, Yıl 4, Sayı 7, Haziran 2008. ss. 125-161. Barış ÖZDAL, “Yugoslavya’nın Dağılma Süreci Çerçevesinde Avrupa Birliği’nin Balkanlar Politikası”, Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Gökhan Telatar (ed.), Küreselleşen Dünyada Avrupa Birliği: Entegrasyon, Kimlik ve Güvenlik, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi Yayınları, 2008, ss: 406-454.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	100
Total	1	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		0
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		100
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	20	3	60
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	0	0	0
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	30	30
Total WorkLoad			118
Total workload/ 30 hr			3,93
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ8
LO1	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
LO2	4	5	4	5	5	4	4	4
LO3	4	4	5	5	4	4	5	5
LO4	4	5	4	5	4	4	5	5

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High