COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR SERKAN KEÇECI

Offered to

History

Course Objective

This course explores the history of the peoples and places located at the former or current edges of European borderlands. From Central Asia to the Caucasus and central Europe, this course discusses the conflict and co-existence of diverse cultural, religious, regional, class, and state entities in those places where empires meet, conflict, and sometimes shatter. Course themes include the flow of people across imperial and state boundaries, the origins and nature of ethno-religious violence, the problem of the nation-state, and the complex domestic and geopolitics of post-imperial countries. Students will come to better understand this area s history as well as the dynamics inherent to borderland regions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s)/References/Materials:
- Textbook(s):
1. Rieber, Alfred, The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014).
Supplementary Book(s):
1. Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso Books).
2. Bartov, Omer and Weitz, Eric D., eds., Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Borderlands (Indiana University Press, 2013).
3. Beck, Lois, Tribes and the State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Iran, in Philip Khoury and J. Kostiner, Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (University of California Press, 1990).
4. Gerace, Michael P., Between Mackinder and Spykman. Geopolitics, Containment and After, Comparative Strategy 10(4) (1991), pp. 347-364.
5. Grousset, René, The Empire of the Steppes. A History of Trans Caspia (Rutgers University Press, 1970).
6. Hauner, Milan, What is Asia to Us Russia s Asia Heartland Yesterday and Today (Routledge, 1992).
7. Kappeler, Andreas, The Russian Empire: A Multi-ethnic History (Routledge, 2001).
8. Kasaba, Reşat, A Moveable Empire. Ottoman Nomads, Migrants and Refugees (University of Washington Press, 2009).
9. LeDonne, John, The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 (Oxford, 2004).
10. LeDonne, John, The Russian Empire and the Word, 1700-1917. The Geopolitics of Expansionism and Containment (Oxford, 1997).
11. Lieven, Dominic C. B., Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals from the Sixteenth Century to the Present (Pimlico, 2003).
12. Reynolds, Michael, Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires (Cambridge, 2011).
13. Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., The Emergence of Eurasianism, California Slavic Studies 4 (1967), pp. 39-67.
14. Rieber, Alfred, The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014).
15. Seegel, Steven, Mapping Europe s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
16. Tapper, Richard, Frontier Nomads of Iran. A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan (Cambridge, 1997).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture + Presentation

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-2: This will be evaluated through the performance in the term examinations.
2. LO 4: This will be evaluated through the performance in the term project.
3. LO 3-5: This will be evaluated through the performance in the final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Tınaztepe Campus, Faculty Members Building, Floor: 3, Office: 307.
Tel: +90 232 301 77 44
Email: serkan.kececi@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes