COURSE SYLLABUS

ARMAMENT AND SECURITY ISSUES

1	Course Title:	ARMAMENT AND SECURITY ISSUES
2	Course Code:	ULU4102
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	4
6	Semester:	8
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Ferhat Pirinççi
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. Ferhat Pirinççi ferhat@uludag.edu.tr 0224 294 10 56 UÜ İİBF A Blok No. 316 Nilüfer / Bursa
18	Website:	www.ferhatpirincci.com
19	Objective of the Course:	One of the most important security challenges students face today is the ability of providing the right information and analyzing the armament problem, as well as the issue of types of weapons, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons and the impact of these weapons on the regional security. Moreover, it is difficult for them to maintain discussions on these subjects if there is no basic knowledge about he field.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Learning the concept of security, which has an important place in international relations;
2	Learning to understand from a different perspective the relation between the armament and security ;
3	Learning the aims of the weapon buyer and seller countries in the context of studying the types of weapons, weapon production and sale of weapons ;
4	Creating an opinion about the problems caused by the trafficking of conventional arms and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ;
5	Informing specifically about the proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as the regional and global weapon initiatives ;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Ontology of security: Theoretical Debates
2	Security-Armament Relationship: Paradoxical Approaches
3	Classification of weapons
4	Armament and Defense Industries
5	Arms Trade: The Aims of Seller and Buyer Countries
6	Conventional Arms Trading During the Cold War Era
7	Conventional Arms Trading During the Post- Cold War Era
8	The Effect of Ballistic Missiles and its Influence on International Security
9	Biological and Chemical Weapons
10	Reasons for nuclear armaments
11	The Security Policies of countries that own nuclear weapons
12	The issue of Nuclear Proliferation
13	Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A Case Study
14	Global and Regional Disarmament Initiatives

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Burke Chair in Strategy Reports Ferhat Pirinççi, “ABD-Suudi Arabistan Silah Anlaşması” Akademik Orta Doğu Dergisi, Cilt 5, Sayı 2, 2011, ss. 61-84, ISBN: 1307-0207. Ferhat Pirinççi, “İsrail’in Silahlanmasında ABD’nin Rolü ve ABD-İsrail Stratejik İlişkisinin Başlaması (1956-1973)”, History Studies: International Journal of History, Orta Doğu Özel Sayısı, 2010, ss. 353-374, ISSN:1309-4173. Ferhat Pirinççi, “Orta Doğu’da Silahlanmayı İlk Kontrol Girişimi: Üçlü Deklarasyon”, History Studies: International Journal of History, Orta Doğu Özel Sayısı, 2010, ss. 375-392, ISSN:1309-4173. Ferhat Pirinççi, Silahlanma ve Savaş: Orta Doğu'daki Silahlanma Girişimlerinin Bölgesel ve Küresel Güvenliğe Etkisi, Bursa: Dora Yayınları, 2010, ISBN: 9786054118687 Frank Barnaby, How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear Weapon Proliferation in the 1990’s, New York: Routledge, 1993. Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Transfers Database
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High