COURSE SYLLABUS

RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY

1	Course Title:	RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY
2	Course Code:	ULU3108
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
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:	Doç. Dr. SEZGİN KAYA
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. Sezgin Kaya, Bursa Uludağ Üni., İ.İ.B.F., Uluslararası İlişkiler Böl., Tel: +90 224 2941181, e-mail: sezgink@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	It aims at giving the essence of Russian Foreign Policy within its basic parametres and relations with other countries in a comparative perspective from past to present.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	The course will contribute to develop students' perspectives in understanding the internal and external factors that constitute Russia's foreign policy in the historical process.

Learning Outcomes:

1	To be able to attain knowledge on Russian identity, culture and history ;
2	To be able to demonstrate knowledge on Russian thought;
3	To be able to demonstrate knowledge on historical continuity in Russian foreign policy;
4	To be able to interrogate Russia’s relations with western world;
5	To be able to understand Russia’s relations with near abroad;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Movements of Russian foreign political thought I: Westernism and Slavophilism
2	Movements of Russian foreign political thought II: Marxism and Eurasianism
3	Foundation of Russian state
4	Russian foreign policy in the period of Czarist Russia I: Post-Whestphalia period
5	Russian foreign policy in the period of Czarist Russia II: Post-Vienna period
6	World War I and Bolshevik Revolution
7	Soviet foreign policy in interwar period
8	World War II and Soviet foreign policy
9	Soviet foreign policy in Cold War
10	Soviet foreign policy in dissolution period
11	Foundation of Russian Federation and “Near Abroad” Doctrine
12	Central Asia and China in Russian foreign policy
13	Europa in Russian foreign policy
14	Russia-US relations and NATO

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Gencer Özcan, Evren Balta ve Burç Beşgül (Ed.), Kuşku ile Komşuluk, İletişim: 2017. Ozan Örmeci ve Sina Kısacık (Ed.), Rusya Siyaseti ve Rus Dış Politikası, Seçkin: 2018. Sezgin Kaya (Ed.), Rusya'nın Doğu Politikası, Ekin: 2013.
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	Written Exam
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