COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IRL 5008 GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

International Relations (English)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ZEHRA NILÜFER KARACASULU

Offered to

International Relations (English)

Course Objective

This graduate level course aims to introduce students to a broad array of topics about globalization and international relations. They will examine the history of concepts and practices on globalization, and thereby examine ongoing challenges in different issue areas such as economical, political, cultural and sociological. Secondly, they will examine how global governance might need to be modified or defended as the world comes to know the effects of globalization more and more. Thirdly, they will examine the problems about globalization and global governance in general and about specific countries and organizations in particular. Lastly, they will examine critics of globalization.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the processes of globalization and its characteristics
2   Understand the forces of globalization that have shaped, and are shaping, the development of the international system
3   Understand the problems in global governance
4   Be able to communicate these issues in seminars and in writing

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction : This session will focus on course expectations, including the assignment of readings for presentation and discussion.
2 Competing Definitions of Globalization and other related words such as internationalization, liberalization, interdependence, universaliazation, westernization. What is new about `globalization
3 Historical Patterns and theoretical contentions: What is the relationship between economic globalization and American hegemony Does globalization lead to imperialism Is globalization and autonomous force What are the roles of states in globalization (conception of inside and outside)
4 Cultural Implications of globalization: What are the arguments on globalization in regard to `identity In which respect are the identities of states undergoing a change
5 Democracy and globalization: Does globalization have negative or positive consequences for democracy
6 International Security and globalization: What does `traditional security mean What are new security dimensions with globalization Does globalization affect international security negatively or positively How some nations or organizations respond (such as to global terrorism)
7 Midterm
8 Globalization and its Critics
9 Globalization, Marginalization: the Third World
10 Globalization and governance
11 Presentation of research papers
12 Presentation of research papers
13 Presentation of research papers
14 Presentation of research papers

Recomended or Required Reading


Jan Art Scholte, Globalization: a Critical Introduction, Palgrave, 2005
David Held, Global Covenant, Polity, 2004.
Ian Clark, Globalization and International Relations, Oxford, 1999
P. Hirst, G. Thompson, The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, 2000
John Tomlinson, Globalization and Culture, Polity, 2006
R. O. Keohane, Power and Governance, 2002
J. N. Rosenau, The Study of World Politics, Vol. 2: globalization and governance, 2006
U. Beck, What is Globalization, 2005
Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat- A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Release 3.0, Picador Reading Group, 2007
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Anchor, 2000
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Articles to be announced

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Weekly discussions, presentations, lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN* 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 18 18
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparing assignments 1 36 36
Preparing presentations 2 4 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15
LO.25
LO.34
LO.45

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