COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIPLOMATIC HISTORY

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

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NURI ADIYEKE

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 The lectures limits
2 Treaty of Westphalia
3 Richelieu and the policy of raison d'etat
4 French Revolution, The Concert of Europe and Metternich
5 Concert of Europe, Policies of Metternich
6 III. Napoleon, Bismarck and German Union
7 Realpolitik
8 Midterm exam
9 First World War
10 Stresemann in Germany and inter war period
11 Second World War
12 Cold War
13 Containment Policy, Korean War, Hungarian Uprising
14 Détente, Vietnam War
15 The end of Cold war and the new world order
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

KISSINGER Henry, Diplomacy, New York, Simon&Schuster Publication, 1994.
ARMAOĞLU Fahir, XIX. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi: 1789-1914, Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayını, Ankara, 1999.
ARMAOĞLU Fahir, 20. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi (1914-1995), Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul, 2014.
Diplomasi Tarihi, (Edit: Barış Özdal, Kutay Karaca), Dora yayınları, Bursa, 2017.
ISKIT Temel, Diplomasi tarihi, Teorisi, Kurumları ve Uygulaması, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayını, Istanbul, 2022.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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

Assessment Criteria

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

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Participation to the term and final examinations will be considered in the evaluation.
3. Cheating in any examination is considered an extremely serious offence.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nuri.adiyeke@deu.edu.tr
Ofis tel: 0 232 301 8750

Office Hours

Tuesday, 13.00-14.50

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/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1544
LO.2544
LO.3544
LO.4544
LO.5544
LO.6544