Globalization and International Relations (IR 301)

2024 Fall
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
International Relations(IR)
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Oya Yeğen zoyayegen@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
IR201 SPS101 SPS102
Formal lecture,Interactive lecture
Interactive,Communicative,Discussion based learning
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Programs\Type Required Core Elective Area Elective
Entrepreneurship Minor *
International Studies *
International Studies *
International Studies Minor *
Management *
Management *
Political Science *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science (Previous Name: Social and Political Sciences) *
Society, Culture and Politics Minor *

CONTENT

This course deals with the changing nature of international relations within the context of the process(es) of globalization. It examines a number of topics that have become crucial especially after the end of the Cold War. In doing so, it also aims at advancing our theoretical and empirical understanding of international relations by discussing (a) the economic and political dimensions of globalization, (b) the relationship between global changes and state power, (c) the crucial problems of international relations, such as poverty, security, global governce and terrorism, and also (d) the important case studies such as the American hegemony, European Integration, global economic crisis.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this course is to help the student of International Relations to learn and become familiar with the foundations, key actors, evolution, challenges of globalizations.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • The economic and political dimensions of globalization.
  • Crucial problems of international relations such as global governance, global democracy, and global terrorism.
  • The important case studies of the American hegemony, global economic crisis, the Arab Spring, and Turkey.
  • Globalization and the civilizational challenges posed by climate, water and food insecurity.

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. 5

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. 4

1. Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences. 5

2. Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society. 5

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

1. Have an understanding of economics and main functional areas of management 4

2. Have a basic all-around knowledge in humanities, science, mathematics, and literature 5

3. Have a basic knowledge of law and ethics, awareness of social and ethical responsibilities 4

4. Work effectively in teams and environments characterized by people of diverse educational, social and cultural backgrounds 4

5. Demonstrate proficiency in oral and written communications in English 5

6. Pursue open minded inquiry and appreciate the importance of research as an input into management practice; thus, a.know how to access, interpret and analyze data and information by using current technologies b.use the results from analyses to make informed decisions 4

7. Use office softwares for written communication, presentation, and data analysis 4

8. Demonstrate awareness that business settings present different opportunities and challenges for managers due to environmental/contextual differences that arise in economic, political, cultural, legal-regulatory domains 4

1. Analyze global affairs from international relations and economics perspectives. 5

2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge of the international affairs. 5

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. 5

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. 5

3. To compete for increasing career opportunities in national and global institutions. 4

4. To (be able to) understand and follow the changes in political behaviours, opinions and structures. 5

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

1. Understand and follow changes in patterns of political behavior, ideas and structures. 5

2. Develop the ability to make logical inferences about social and political issues on the basis of comparative and historical knowledge. 5

ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

  Percentage (%)
Final 45
Term-Paper 40
Participation 15

RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS

Readings

• Which World Are We Living In?: Realist World, Liberal World, Tribal World, Marxist World, Tech World, Warming World. (2018) Foreign Affairs, 97(4), pp.10-55.
• Ayşe Zarakol, “Remembering the Shared History of (Eur)Asia: Is This a Good Idea in the Twenty-First Century?” Global Studies Quarterly (2022) 2, 1–4.
● Ziya Öniş, “The West Versus the Rest: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Crisis of the ‘Post-Western’ Order,” Transatlantic Policy Quarterly (2022), 33–52.
● Shivshankar Menon, “Nobody Wants the Current World Order: How All the Major Powers—Even the United States—Became Revisionists,” Foreign Affairs (2022).
● Shivshankar Menon, “Out of Alignment: What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Non-Western Powers,” Foreign Affairs (2023).
● John J. Mearsheimer, “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power,” in Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006), 49-60.
● Dani Rodrik and Stephen M. Walt, “How to Build a Better Order,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2022.
Joseph Stiglitz, “Shock Therapy for Neoliberals,” Project Syndicate, 05 April 2022
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● Joseph Stiglitz, “Inequality and Democracy,” Project Syndicate, 31 August 2023
● Naomi Klein, “A Time to Leap” in NO IS NOT ENOUGH, 2017, pp. 231-256.
● Joseph Nye, The Future of Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2011), chps.1 and 4.
● Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Domination or Leadership,” in Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006), 339-351
• G. John Ikenberry, “Liberal Hegemony and the Future of the American Postwar Order,” in Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006), 111-128.
• Destradi, S., & Plagemann, J. (2019). Populism and International Relations:(Un) predictability, personalisation, and the reinforcement of existing trends in world politics. Review of International Studies, 45(5), 711-730.
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• UNDP, Sustainable Development Goals, Annual Report.
• UNDP Human Development Report 2020, "The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene," 1-14 (Overview