| Course Objectives: |
The number of international organizations, which have started to take place among the most active and indispensable members of the world system, is increasing rapidly. The aim of the course is to explain the reasons for the need for international organizations; the emergence and historical development of these organizations; its types, functions and organs; their legal structures and powers; their roles and functions in global politics; It aims to explain its relations and interactions with states. |
| Course Content: |
The role of international (governmental and nongovernmental) organizations (IOs) in global politics, the extension to informal regimes such as rules and norms, IOs' institutionalized cooperation at the international and supranational level, IOs' creation, internal dynamics, and their complicated relationship, specific IOs on different fields such as politics, economy, environment, collective security etc., regional organizations like the EU, ASEAN, OAS etc. |
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction |
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| 2) |
The past of international organizations and their role in today's world |
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| 3) |
Definitions, evaluations and approaches related to international organizations |
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| 4) |
Globalization, the concept of global governance and the elements and actors of global governance |
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| 5) |
Types of international organizations |
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| 6) |
Universal international organizations: League of Nations |
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| 7) |
Universal international organizations: United Nations |
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| 8) |
Midterm |
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| 9) |
Regional international organizations, 1: Regionalism and the European Union; the path from economic community to political integration |
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| 10) |
Regional international organizations, 2: Council of Europe, democracy and human rights framework |
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| 11) |
NATO, the defense mechanism of western countries |
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| 12) |
International organizations under the UN: WHO, ILO, UNCTAD, IMF, GATT, UNESCO, FAO |
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| 13) |
Other International Organizations: OECD, OSCE, NAFTA, OPEC, OIC, OSA and ASEAN |
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| 14) |
The place of non-governmental organizations in the international system as non-governmental international organizations |
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| 15) |
Final Exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. |
3 |
| 2) |
Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level. |
3 |
| 3) |
Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy). |
2 |
| 4) |
Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework. |
3 |
| 5) |
Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field. |
2 |
| 6) |
Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork. |
1 |
| 7) |
Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques. |
3 |
| 8) |
Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired. |
3 |
| 9) |
Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally. |
2 |
| 10) |
Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. |
3 |
| 11) |
Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
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