Marmara Üniversitesi
Marmara Üniversitesi Eğitim-Öğretim Bilgi Sistemi

This course aims to explore some of the recent key theoretical discussions in IR and their practical implications to changing nature of world politics. This is done by evaluating the contribution of different theories of international relations to our understanding and explanation of various issues and cases in today’s world politics

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In the context of this course, various issues regarding changing world politics will be discussed from theoretical and empirical perspective. In this regard concepts like power, security, human rights will be explored with reference to changing nature of the so-called concepts. Furthermore emerging issues like humanitarian interventions, responsibility to protect, the role of the United Nations, human security, civil society, the rise of Asia, crises of liberalism and Turkey's role in changing world politics will be analyzed.

The course requirements include a midterm exam, reflections papers and a final research paper. Each student is expected to write a reflection paper including questions regarding the weekly readings and each reflection paper is expected to be around 2-3 pages corresponding to the week he/she selects. Students that write the reflections papers will also lead the discussions in the corresponding weeks. The research paper will be around 10-15 pages long.

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İngilizce

avid A. Baldwin, “Power and International Relations”, in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons., eds., Handbook of International Relations, London: Sage, 2002. pp. 177-191. Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, “Power in International Politics”, International Organization, 59, Winter 2005, pp: 39-75. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Soft Power, The Means to Success in World Politics, New York: Public Affairs, 2004, (Chapter 1: The Changing Nature of Power), pp: 1-33. Recommended: Janice Bially Mattern, “The Concept of Power and the (Un)Discipline of International Relations, (in) Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp:691-699. Brian Schmidt, “Competing Realist Conceptions of Power,” Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2005,pp. 523-550. Week 3: International Organizations (IOs) in World Politics: New “actors” besides states? Furkan Required: Robert O. Keohane and Lisa L. Martin. “The Promise of Institutionalist Theory”, International Security, Vol. 20, No.1, 1995, pp: 39-51. John J. Mearshiemer, "The False Promise of International Institutions", International Security, Vol. 19, No. 3, Winter, 1994/95, pp: 5-49. Michael Barnett, and Martha Finnemore. "The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations", International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4, 1999, pp: 699-732. Recommended: B.S. Chimni, “International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.15, No.1, 2004, pp:1-37. Lisa L. Martin, “Interest, Power and Multilateralism”, International Organization, Vol.46, No.4, Autumn, 1992, pp: 765-792. Week 4: United Nations (UN) in World Politics I: What kind of an “actor”? Muhlis Required: Claude, Inis L. “Collective Legitimization as the Political Function of United Nations”, International Organization, Vol.20, No.3, Summer 1996, pp.367-379. Eric Voeten,. “The Political Origins of the UN Security Council’s Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force”, International Organization, Vol.59, No.3, Summer 2005, pp:527-557 Thomas G Weiss (et. al), The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Fifth Edition, Westview Press, 2007. (Introduction) Recommended: Terrence L Chapman, “Audience Beliefs and International Organization Legitimacy”, International Organization, Vol.63, No.4, October 2009, pp: 733-764. Andrew Hurell, “Legitimacy and the Use of Force: Can the Circle be Squared?”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 31, No.1, 2005, ss.15-32. Alexander Thomson, “Coercion through IOs: The Security Council and the Logic of Information Transmission”, International Organization, Vol.60, No.1, 2006, pp: 1-34. Week 5: UN in World Politics II: Success or a Failure? Yiğit Required: Paul F Diehl, Jennifer Reifschneider and Poul R. Hensen. “United Nations Intervention and Recurring Conflict”, International Organization, Vol. 50, No.4, 1996, pp.683-700. Michael J. Glennon, “Why the Security Council Failed:, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 3, 2003, pp. 16-35. Shashi Tharoor, “Security Council Reform: Past, Present, and Future”, Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 25, No.4, 2011, pp: 397-406. Recommended: Joseph S. Nye, "The Impressive-But Limited-Soft Power of the United Nations." Daily Star, November 14, 2007. Thomas G. Weiss, “The illusion of UN Security Council Reform”, Washington Quarterly, Vol.26, No.4, Autumn 2003, pp:147-161. Ian Hurd, After Anarchy, Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council. NJ:Princeton University Press, 2007, pp: 1-19. Week 6: “Norms” and “Ethics” in IR: Utopia or Reality? Nisa Required: Martha Finnemore and Katherine Sikking, “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change”, International Organization, Vol.52, No.4, Autumn1998, pp.887-917. Terry Nardin, “International Ethics”, (in) Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp: 594-612. Ann Florini, “The Evolution of International Norms”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol.40, No.3, September 1996, pp: 363-389. Recommended: Ian Manners, “The Normative Ethics of the European Union”, International Affairs, Vol.84, No.1, 2008, pp: 65-80. Jeffrey T. Checkel, “International Norms and Domestic Politics: Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.3, No.4, December 1997,pp: 473-495. Richard Price, "The Genealogy of the Chemical Weapon Taboo," International Organization, Vol. 49, No.1, Winter 1995, pp. 73 103. Price, Richard. “Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics”, (in) Richard Price (Ed.). Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp.1-53. Week 7: Questioning “Humanitarian Intervention”: A new norm of “Responsibility to Protect”? Tuğçe Required: Martha Finnemore, “Paradoxes in Humanitarian Intervention”, (in) Richard Price (ed.), Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp: 197-225. Martha Finnemore, “Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention”, Peter J. Katzenstein (ed.) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp: 153-186. Simon Chesterman, “Legality versus Legitimacy: Humanitarian Intervention, the Security Council, and the Rule of Law”, Security Dialogue, Vol. 33, No.3, pp: 293–307. Recommended: Alex de Waal, “Darfur and the Failure of the Responsibility to Protect”, International Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 6, 2007, pp. 1039-1054. Alex J. Bellamy, “The Responsibility to Protect and the problem of military intervention”, International Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2008, pp: 615–639. Thomas G. Weiss, “The Sunset of Humanitarian Intervention? The Responsibility to Protect in a Unipolar Era” , Security Dialogue, Vol.35, No.2, 2004. Week 8: Changing “Security” Concept: Issues of “New” Security Agenda Ayşegül Required: Nazli Choucri, “Migration and Security: Some Key Linkages”, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 1, Fall 2002, pp. 97-122. Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?”, International Security, Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 87-102. John Barnett, “Environmental Security”, in Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 182-203. Recommended: Barry Buzan & Lene Hansen, “Ch. 7: Widening and Deepening Security”, The Evolution of Security Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 187-225. Caroline Thomas, “Global governance, Development and Human Security: Exploring the links”, Third World Quarterly, Vol 22, No 2, 2001, pp 159–175. Oli Brown, Anne Hammill and Robert McLeman, “Climate Change as the 'New' Security Threat: Implications for Africa”, International Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 6, Nov. 2007, pp. 1141-1154. Week 9: Midterm Exam Week 10: Global Governance and Global Civil Society: Prospects and Problems? Required: Michael Barnett and Kathryn Sikkink, “From International Relations to Global Society”, (in) Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp: 62-84. Fred Halliday, “Global Governance: Prospects and Problems”, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2000, pp. 19-33. Mary Kaldor, “The Idea of Global Civil Society”, International Affairs, Vol. 79, No.3, 2003, pp: 583-593. Recommended: Ruth Grant and Robert Keohane, “Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No.1, February 2005, pp. 29-43. Richard Higgot, “Contested Globalization: The Changing Context and Normative Challenges”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 26, 2000, pp. 131-153. Richard Price, “Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines”, International Organization, Vol. 52, No.3, 1998, pp: 613-44. Week 11: “Crises” of Changing World Politics: Towards a “new” world order? Required: Justin Morris and Nicholas J. Wheler, “The Security Council’s Crises of Legitimacy and the Use of Force”, International Politics, Vol. 44, No.1, 2007, pp:214-231. Ian Hurd, “Breaking and Making Norms: American Revisionism and Crises of Legitimacy”, International Politics, Vol. 44, 2007, pp.194-213. Tim Dunne, “The Rules of the Game are Changing’: Fundamental Human Rights in Crisis After 9/11”, International Politics, Vol. 44, No.1, 2007, pp: 269–286. Recommended: Dirk Messner, “Four Lessons from the Present Global Financial Crises for the 21st Century: An Essay on Global Transformation from a European Perspective’, (in) Aswani Kumar and Dirk Messner (ed.), Power Shifts and Global Governance, New York: Anthem Press, 2010, pp: 31-45. Robert Kagan, “America’s Crises of Legitimacy”, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 83, No.2, Mar/Apr2004, pp: 65-87 Week 12: West and the Rest: The End of Unipolarity? Fırat Required Michael Cox, “Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West?, International Relations, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2012, pp: 369–388. Christopher Layne, “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2012, pp: 203–213. Donald M. Snow, “Rising Powers, China as Friend, Enemy of Frenemy?”, (in) Donald M. Snow, Cases in International Relations, Longman, 2010, pp: 178-194. Recommended: G. John Ikenberry, “Is American Multilateralism in Decline?”, Perspective on Politics, Issue 3, September 2003, pp:533-550. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “The Twenty-First Century Will Not Be a ‘‘Post-American’’ World”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2012, pp: 215–217. Milosz Kucharski, “China in the Age of American Primacy”, International Relations, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp: 60–77. Week 13: Locating Turkey in Changing World Politics: What kind of a “Rising State”? Required: Tarik Oguzlu, “Soft power in Turkish foreign policy”, Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 61, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 81-97. Ziya Onis, “Multiple Faces of the “New” Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and a Critique”, Insight Turkey, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2011, pp. 47-65. Kemal Kirişci, “The transformation of Turkish foreign policy: The rise of the trading state”, New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 40, 2009, pp: 29-57. Recommended: Philip Robbins, “Turkish foreign policy since 2002: between a ‘post-Islamist’ government and a Kemalist State”, International Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2007, pp: 289-304. Ziya Onis, “Turkey and the Arab Spring: Between Ethics and Self-Interest”, Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2012, pp. 45-63. Ahmet Sözen, “A Paradigm Shift in Turkish Foreign Policy: Transition and Challenges”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 103-123.

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• Changing Role of International Organizations and United Nations
• Changing Nature of Power in World Politics
• Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect
• Global Civil Society and Norms
• Rising States and the crises of liberalism in world politics