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Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
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Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The program supports interdisciplinary research and teaching in international security with particular reference to theoritical and present agenda items.
Course Content The program seeks to revive the study and practice of global themes by preparing the students as successful leaders and policy makers. It combines theoretical aspects of security with present international security issues at post-graduate level.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction
2What is Security?
3Evolution of Security Studies
4Widening and Deepening of Security
5Securitization Theory
6QUIZ 1 Explaining and Studying War: Causes of the Inter-State Wars
7Evolution of War: Intra-State, Inter-State and Extra-State Wars
8Mid-Term Exam
9Identity and War
10Terrorism
11Human Security
12Health and Security
13Migration and Security
14Changing Dimensions of Security and “New” Security Studies: Economic Security, environmental Security, Energy Security,

Resources

- Barry Buzan, People, States & Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983; revised second edition 1991). - Barry Buzan, Ole Waever, Jaap De Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis, 1997. - Barry Buzan, Ole Waever, Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security, 2003.
Recommended Texts: - Faruk Sönmezoğlu, Uluslararası Politika ve Dış Politika Analiz, İstanbul, Filiz Yay., 1989 - Tayyar Arı, Uluslar arası ilişkiler, 2. baskı, İstanbul: İletişim Yay., 1996 - Atila Eralp (der.), Devlet, Sistem ve Kimlik, İstanbul: İletişim Yay., 2006. - Atila Eralp (der.), Devlet ve Ötesi, İstanbul: İletişim Yay., 2005 - Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi Küreselleşme Özel Sayısı, Bahar 2006, Ed. Fuat Keyman - Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, Savaş Özel Sayısı, Yaz 2007 Ed. Necati Polat - Insight Turkey, Perceptions, Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, Survival, Foreign Affairs, and relevant journals on security at JSTOR.

1-Peter Hough, (2004), Understanding Global Security, Taylor & Francis Ltd.


2-Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen, (2009), The Evolution of Security Studies, Cambridge Universiy Press.


3- Barry Buzan and Ole Waever, (2003), Regions and Powers, The Structure of International Security, Cambridge Universiy Press.