MVZb2054 Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2023
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. et Mgr. Vladimír Bízik, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. et Mgr. Vladimír Bízik, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Po 12:00–13:40 exP52
Předpoklady
! MVZ254 Turkey Foreign Policy && !NOW( MVZ254 Turkey Foreign Policy )
Being able to read and understand English written academic texts, being able to follow lecturing and participate in English-language classes.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.

Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 22 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 10/22, pouze zareg.: 0/22
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course aims to provide students with knowledge on contemporary Turkish Republic, its political system, historical and social realities underpinning it; as well as its foreign policy, role in regional and global politics and transformations in this area. The course therefore concentrates on three general areas of interest:
1. Overview of the late-Ottoman empire roots of the Turkish republic, its inception and breakdown of the most significant historical transformations in the country and its society.
2. Description of Turkish political and legal institutions, their evolution and transformations to this day, its party system and main political actors.
3. Overview of Turkish foreign policy, its evolution, specifics, challenges; in the region and in the global arena.
Výstupy z učení
Successful students of this course will gain insight into the basic realities facing the state of the Turkish republic today and the path dependency that led to today’s situation. They will gain familiarity with the inception of modern Turkey, realities that brought about its initial existence and all the political, societal and legal circumstances that transpired between 1923 and the present day. Students will gain familiarity with the main political actors, political parties and with the main historical milestones, such as revised constitutions, military coups, and political parties gaining power and transforming the state. Students will also get familiar with Turkish foreign policy, its role in NATO, relationship with its neighbors and regional adversaries and allies. They will also be able to explain what historical circumstances brought about the present state of relations. Students will be familiar with the broad strokes of the evolution of Turkish foreign policy, its shifts of direction and possible domestic-policy underpinnings thereof.
Osnova
  • I. Introduction to the course; introduction to the subject matter: late Ottoman empire and conditions leading to the emergence of the Turkish republic, actors and founding principles
  • II. Overview of Turkish political history, main actors, parties, elections, constitutions, and historical milestones
  • III. Secularism, role of religion in the society
  • IV. Turkish nationalism, identity
  • V. Role of the military in politics and society, military coups
  • VI. The Kurdish Question
  • VII. Transformations in politics and society since 2002 to the present day, Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • VIII. History of Turkish foreign policy, pivots and main foreign policy objectives in a changing world
  • IX. The Cyprus conflict, relationship with Greece and other neighbors
  • X. Turkey and the European Union
  • XI. Turkey after July 2016 – constitutional changes, authoritarianism, new perspectives
  • XII. Final exam, discussion
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Mango, Andrew: "Atatürk." In The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World, edited by Kasaba, Reşat, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 147-172. 26 pp.
  • Feroz, Ahmad: "Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey." In The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World, edited by Kasaba, Reşat, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 226-265. 40 pp.
  • Özbudun, Edgun and Gençkaya. Ömer F. Democratization and the Politics of Constitution-Making in Turkey. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2009. 10-26. 17 pp.
  • Waldman, Simon A. and Çalışkan, Emre. The ‚New Turkey‘ and Its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 60-80. 21 pp.
  • Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. 2d ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 401-424. 24 pp.
  • White, Jenny B.: "Islam and Politics in contemporary Turkey." In The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World, edited by Kasaba, Reşat, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 357-380. 24 pp.
  • Grigoriadis, Ioannis N. Instilling Religion in Green and Turkish Nationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 74-80. 7 pp.
  • Yavuz, Hakan M. Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 265-274. 10 pp.
  • Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. 2d ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 352-361. 10 pp.
  • Çınar, Meral Uğur. Collective Memory and National Membership: Identity and Citizenship Models in Turkey and Austria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 16-31. 16 pp.
  • Waldman, Simon A. and Çalışkan, Emre. The ‚New Turkey‘ and Its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 19-37. 20 pp.
  • Waldman, Simon A. and Çalışkan, Emre. The ‚New Turkey‘ and Its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 107-126. 20 pp.
  • Çaǧaptay, Soner. A Sultan in Autumn: Erdoğan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2021. (41-56). 16pp.
  • Christofis, Nikos. The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey: Domestic and International Implications. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-15. 15 pp.
  • Waldman, Simon A. and Çalışkan, Emre. The ‚New Turkey‘ and Its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 39-59. 21 pp.
  • Çandar, Cengiz. Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 271-287. 17 pp.
  • Eksi, Muharrem. The Rise and Fall of Soft Power in Turkish Foreign Policy During JDP: The Rise and Fall of the ‚Turkish Model‘ in the Muslim World. Saarbrücken: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016. 90-101. 12 pp.
  • Çaǧaptay, Soner. Erdoğan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019. 25-40. 16 pp.
  • Çaǧaptay, Soner. Erdoğan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019. 41-59, 199-216). 37 pp.
  • Sönmezoglu, Faruk and Ayman, Gülden: The Roots of Conflict and the Dynamics of Change in Turkish-Greek Relations in: Kollias, Christos and Günlük-Şensen, Gülay: Greece and Turkey in the 21st Century. Hauupage: Nova Science, 2003. 37-46. 10 pp.
  • Atakol, Kenan. Thirty-Nine Years into the Cyprus Conflict. Mind and Human Interaction. 2003 (Volume 13). 11-18. 8 pp.
  • Bozdağlıoğlu, Yücel. Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity: A Constructivist Approach. New York & London: Routledge, 2003. 68-79. 12 pp.
  • Çaǧaptay, Soner. Erdoğan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019. (73-88). 16 pp.
  • Erdoğan’s Empire: Special report from The Economist. The Economist: vol. 446, no. 9330, January 21st 2023. 3–12. 10 pp.
    doporučená literatura
  • Danforth, Nicholas and Stein, Aaron. Turkey's New Foreign Policy: Ankara's Ambitions, Regional Responses, and Implications for the United States. Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2023.
Výukové metody
Students will draw information from the required readings they must familiarize themselves with before each seminar; as well as from lectures that will be part of each class. The lecture and subsequent seminar with class discussion will assume knowledge of assigned literature but will provide alternate perspectives and additional information not included in the compulsory literature. Attendance is expected and each student should not miss more than two classes.
Metody hodnocení
There will be two tests written in the MU Information System in the middle and at the end of the term. These will be multiple-choice tests, with 10 questions each, worth one point. Students can get a total of 20 points for these tests (10 for each). Subsequently, at the end of the term, there will be a written examination, likewise held online in the MU Information System, in which students can gain up to 20 points. If a student fails to meet the threshold of 25 points in total to pass the course, they will have to pass an oral examination with the lecturer.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
A detailed syllabus and other information will be provided at the beginning of the course.
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