INTL 555
Global forces in their local encounters, connections, and frictions from the perspective of networks of actors. Critical assessesments of the political nature of discourses of truth, expertise, inevitability, and technicality in markets, capitalism, development, and ethics.
INTL 563
Reviews the major theories and models of nationalism and ethnicity and their implications for current problems.
INTL 570
Theories of conflict and aspects of international security, including alliances, international organizations, ethnic and national conflict, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
INTL 585
Theories and applications of negotiation strategies and stages of negotiation along with special focus on power, culture, conflict, multiple actors and mediation are covered in negotiations involving international organizations, governments, business, civil society, and individuals.
INTL 595
Research thesis work under the supervision of an advisor.
INTL 562
The rising social, political and economic importance of religion and religious values in countries? domestic politics and international relations. Reviews various models of secularism, modernization, and democracy in Türkiye and the world.
INTL 565
Contemporary studies of state and society in the Middle East and Southeast Asia with a focus on Türkiye. Postcolonial, developmental, and neoliberal state-society relations, contextualizing them in case studies about development, social change, gender, and citizenship.
INTL 575
This is an undergraduate and graduate seminar investigating the definitions of and relationship between ethnicity and nationhood. Competing definitions of ethnicity and rival explanations for the emergence of nationalism are critically engaged. While covering the classical works in the field of ethnicity and nationalism studies, the course readings incorporate the most recent, cutting-edge works in the field as well.
INTL 594
An Extended Research Project under the supervision of an advisor.
INTL 601
Comprehensive coverage of various quantitative methods used in the fields of Political Science and International Relations. Research and publication ethics, modeling techniques with an emphasis on the application of the following methods in the analysis of large-N datasets including panel, survey, cross-sectional and duration data by learning and using an appropriate statistical software program: linear regression analysis, diagnostics and revised models, such as generalized linear model fixing for nonlinearity and heteroskedasticity, limited and categorical dependent variable models including logit, probit,ordinal and mutinomial logit, count dependent variable models and poisson and negative binomial methods, event-history modeling, such as duration and hazard analysis, and selection models.
INTL 560
Deals with ideologies such as Marxism, Fascism, Liberalism and Social Democracy. This course also compares nationalism in European and non- European countries.
INTL 564
Reviews current research and theories on the interactions between population and ethnicity.
INTL 571
Theories of conflict and aspects of civil conflict processes, including power relations, political economy, ethnicity and terrorism.
INTL 590
Prepares students for a successful start on their theses, helping them to choose their thesis topics and supervisor, and to formulate their question and methodology, through faculty guidance, and faculty and fellow-student feedback.
INTL 600
Examines the major questions and theories in classical and contemporary political theory.
