Turkish Foreign Policy (IR 342)

2020 Fall
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
International Relations(IR)
3
6
Berk Esen besen@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
SPS101 SPS102
Interactive lecture,Seminar
Interactive,Discussion based learning
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Programs\Type Required Core Elective Area Elective
International Studies *
International Studies *
Political Science *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science (Previous Name: Social and Political Sciences) *

CONTENT

A systematic study of contemporary Turkish foreign policy making in a global context. Topics include, major issues, actors, decision making mechanisms, enduring patterns and changing orientations in Turkish Foreign Policy. Issues comprise: Greece and Cyprus; Russia and Bulgaria; Syria, Iraq and Israel; Armenia and Azerbaijan; the European Union; the UN and NATO.

OBJECTIVE

To introduce students to the basics of Turkish foreign policy, identify main challenges in Turkish foreign policy specifically since the end of World War I and enable students to grasp the many complexities in Turkish foreign policy making.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to a) define the major trends in Turkish foreign policy since 1923 b) identify critical changes and turning points in Turkish foreign policy c) describe the foreign policy-making process in Turkey d) analyze the linkages between domestic politics and foreign policy e) differentiate between different theories of foreign policy analysis in assessing Turkish foreign policy

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 5

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 3

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 4

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 5

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 3

1. Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences. 4

2. Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society. 4

3. Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information. 4

1. Analyze global affairs from international relations and economics perspectives. 4

2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge of the international affairs. 4

3. Compete for increasing opportunities in careers within the newly emerging global institutions. 4

4. Evaluate the international political events and present their views and positions on international affairs with advanced oral and written skills. 4

1. To analyze national and global events from various social science perspectives. 5

2. To demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge on political science and international relations and to state views and positions with advanced oral and written skills. 4

3. To compete for increasing career opportunities in national and global institutions. 5

4. To (be able to) understand and follow the changes in political behaviours, opinions and structures. 4

5. To gain the ability to make logical inferences on social and political issues based on comparative and historical knowledge. 4

1. Understand and follow changes in patterns of political behavior, ideas and structures. 4

2. Develop the ability to make logical inferences about social and political issues on the basis of comparative and historical knowledge. 4

ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

  Percentage (%)
Final 35
Midterm 35
Assignment 20
Participation 10

RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS

Readings

1. William Hale (hereafter WH) ? Chapter 1
2. Bein, A. (2017). Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. pages. 8-15
3. WH: Chapter 2
4. Gulmez, S. B. (2017). Turkish foreign policy as an anomaly: revisionism and irredentism through diplomacy in the 1930s. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44(1), 30-47.
5. Bein, A. (2017). Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. Ch. 2
6. WH: Chapter 3
7. Isci, O. (2019). The Massigli Affair and its Context: Turkish Foreign Policy after the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. Journal of Contemporary History, 1-26.
8. Papuççular, H. (2018). Fragile Balances: Turkish Foreign Policy on the Sovereignty of the Dodecanese Islands (1940?1947). Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20(5), 405-419.
9. WH: Chapter 4
10.Gülmez, S. B. (2020). From indifference to independence: Turkey's shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s. Middle Eastern Studies, 56(5), 744-758.
11. Dilek Barlas, Şuhnaz Yılmaz & Serhat Güvenç (2020) Revisiting the Britain-US-Turkey triangle during the transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana (1947-1957), Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2020.1820232
12. WH: Chapter 5
13. Özdamar, Ö., & Erciyas, O. (2019). Turkey and Cyprus: A Poliheuristic Analysis of Decisions during the Crises of 1964, 1967, and 1974. Foreign Policy Analysis.
14. Johnson, L. B., & Inonu, I. (1966). President Johnson and Prime Minister Inonu: Correspondence between President Johnson and Prime Minister Inonu, June 1964. The Middle East Journal, 386-393.
15. WH ? Chapter 6
16. Berdal Aral (2001). Dispensing with Tradition? Turkish Politics and International Society during the Özal Decade, 1983-93,? Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 pp. 72-88
17. Kirişçi, K. (2009). The transformation of Turkish foreign policy: The rise of the trading state. New Perspectives on Turkey, 40, 29-56.
18. Ahmet Davutoğlu, ?Turkey?s New Foreign Policy Vision,? Insight Turkey 10, no. 1 (2008), pp.77-96.
19.Özpek, B. B., & Tanriverdi Yaşar, N. (2018). Populism and foreign policy in Turkey under the AKP rule. Turkish Studies, 19(2), 198-216.
20. Behlül Özkan. (2014). ?Turkey, Davutoglu and the idea of pan-Islamism,? Survival, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2014), pp. 119-140
21. Zarakol, A. (2012). Problem areas for the new Turkish foreign policy. Nationalities Papers, 40(5), 739-745.
22. WH ? pages 165-173 and 185-193
23. Buhari Gulmez, D. (2020). The resilience of the US?Turkey alliance: divergent threat perceptions and worldviews. Contemporary Politics, 1-18.
24. Saatçioğlu, Beken (2019). The European Union?s refugee crisis and rising functionalism in EU-Turkey relations. Turkish Studies, 1-19.
25. Karademir, Burcu (2019). A Dance of Entanglement: The US-Turkish Relations in the Context of the Syrian Conflict. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, 16 (2), 27-43.
26. WH ? Chapter 9
27. Demiryol, T. (2019). Between security and prosperity: Turkey and the prospect of energy cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkish Studies, 20(3), 442-464.
28. Tsarouhas, D., & Yazgan, N. (2018). Trade, non-state actors and conflict: evidence from Greece and Turkey. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31(3-4), 291-313.
29. WH ? Chapter 10
30. Köstem, S. (2020). Russian-Turkish cooperation in Syria: geopolitical alignment with limits. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1-23.
31. ?idi?, A., & Kösebalaban, H. (2019). Turkey?s Rapprochement with Russia: Assertive Bandwagoning. The International Spectator, 54(3), 123-138.
32. Başkan, B., & Pala, Ö. (2020). Making Sense of Turkey?s Reaction to the Qatar Crisis. The International Spectator, 1-14.
33. MacGillivray, I. W. (2020). The paradox of Turkish?Iranian relations in the Syrian Crisis. Third World Quarterly, 1-21.
34. Fuat Keyman, E. (2016). Turkish foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring era: from proactive to buffer state. Third World Quarterly, 37(12), 2274-2287.
35. Öniş, Z. (2014). Turkey and the Arab revolutions: boundaries of regional power influence in a turbulent Middle East. Mediterranean Politics, 19(2), 203-219.
36. Uzer, U. (2020). The downfall of Turkish?Israeli relations: a cold peace between former strategic allies. Israel Affairs, 26(5), 687-697.
37. MacGillivray, I. W. (2019). Complexity and cooperation in times of conflict: Turkish-Iranian relations and the Nuclear Issue. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1-25.
38. Özpek, B. B. (2018). Paradigm Shift between Turkey and the Kurds: From `Clash of the Titans? to `Game of Thrones?. Middle East Critique, 27(1), 43-60.
39. Tsourapas, G. (2019). The Syrian refugee crisis and foreign policy decision-making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Journal of Global Security Studies. (Read only the Turkish case)
40. Adamson, F. B. (2019). Sending states and the making of intra-diasporic politics: Turkey and its diaspora (s). International Migration Review, 53(1), 210-236.
41. Özerim, M. G. (2018). Stretching, Opening or Sealing the Borders: Turkish Foreign Policy Conceptions and their Impact on Migration, Asylum and Visa Policies. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20(2), 165-182.
42. Yilmaz, G., & Eliküçük Yıldırım, N. (2020). Authoritarian diffusion or cooperation? Turkey?s emerging engagement with China. Democratization, 1-19.
43. Aydın-Düzgit, S. (2020). Can non-democracies support international democracy? Turkey as a case study. Third World Quarterly, 41(2), 264-283.
44. Edward Wastnidge, (2019). ?Imperial Grandeur and Selective Memory: Re-assessing Neo-Ottomanism in Turkish Foreign and Domestic Politics,? Middle East Critique, 28 (1), pp. 7-28.
45. Hoffmann, C. (2019). Neo-Ottomanism, Eurasianism or securing the region? A longer view on Turkey?s interventionism. Conflict, Security & Development, 19 (3), 301-307.
46. Aras, B. (2019). The Crisis and Change in Turkish Foreign Policy After July 15. Alternatives, 44 (1), 6-18