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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS STR 5047 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Strategic Research

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Strategic Research

Course Objective

To learn the history of diplomacy

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The emergence of national states and the new period started after Westphalia Treaty 2   The destruction of the Napoleon wars and a new world order by the Congress of 3   The order balance of power after the policy of raison d etat and losing of the flexibility of balance of power system through German Union 4   Before the First World War and through fascism arriving to the Second World War 5   Cold War, Détente and after the collapse of Soviet Union passing to the unipolar World system 6   Globalization and the new policies of the U.S. besides the cooperation with the axis countries

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Diplomacy starting through Westphalia Treaty 2 Richelieu and the policy of raison d etat 3 French Revolution, The Concert of Europe and Metternich 4 III. Napoleon, Bismarck and German Union 5 Realpolitik 6 Loosing of flexibility of Balance of Power before I. World War 7 The dilemma of the winners of the war 8 Stresemann in Germany and inter war period 9 Hitler, Stalin and Nazi-Soviet Pact 10 Cold War 11 Containment Policy, Korean War, Hungarian Uprising 12 Détente, Vietnam War 13 The end of Cold war 14 Globalization and The new world order

Recomended or Required Reading

Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, New York, Simon&Schuster Publication, 1994.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER) 3 FIN FINAL EXAM 4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50 5 RST RESIT 6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

If needed, other assessment methods can be added to the table given below.

Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assis.Prof.Dr. Bülent Uğrasız, faculty of Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature, Room no. A-111, Phone: Ext.18652

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 14 3 42 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84 Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6 Preparation for final exam 1 6 6 Preparing assignments 1 31 31 Midterm 1 3 3 Final 1 3 3 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 LO.1 5 4 4 LO.2 5 4 4 LO.3 5 4 4 LO.4 5 4 4 LO.5 5 4 4 LO.6 5 4 4