ÇANKAYA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PSI 305 – COMPARATIVE FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

Fall 2022-2023 Course Syllabus

 

Amphi 4 (H128), Wednesday, 14.20, 15.20, 16.20

 

Prof. Dr. Didem Ekinci

didemekinci@cankaya.edu.tr

Aim: This course aims at introducing junior and senior PSI students to the theoretical perspectives, key concepts, trends and issue cases in foreign policy analysis. The course shall start with the historical evolution of foreign policy analysis and theoretical/conceptual approaches to be followed by sessions devoted to the examination of certain major actors’ foreign policies. By the end of the term, students are expected to have become able to analyze key concepts, trends, deviations, developments and future prospects in the field.

Grading: There will be one midterm (35%), one presentation (30%) and a final exam (35%).

Weekly Course Schedule:

1: History and evolution of foreign policy analysis as a sub-field

2: Realism and foreign policy analysis

3: Liberalism and foreign policy analysis

4: Constructivism and foreign policy analysis

5: Models and Approaches in Foreign Policy-making

6: British foreign policy

7: French foreign policy

8: MIDTERM (not fixed)

9: Soviet/Russian foreign policy

10: Chinese Foreign Policy

11: PRESENTATION WEEK

12: PRESENTATION WEEK

13: The role of media and public opinion in foreign policy-making

14: Review

Course Material:

-Marijke Breuning, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

-Ryan Beasley, Juliet Kaarbo, Jeffrey Lantis and Michael Snarr (eds), Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on State Behavior (Washington: CQ Press, 2002).

-Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Timothy Dunne (eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Recommended Reading:

-Diogo Morreria, “Transnational Foreign Policy: Actors, Institutions, and Norms,” Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 4(3), 2005, 123-144.

-Tom Conley, “Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: July to December 2004,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51(2), 2005, 257-273.

-Jonathan W. Keller, “Leadership Style, Regime Type, and Foreign Policy Crisis Behaviour: A Contingent Monadic Principle?,” International Studies Quarterly, 49, 2005, 205-231.

-Laura Neack, The New Foreign Policy: US and Comparative Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (New York: New Millennium Books, 2002) [CHAPTER 5: “Conclusion: A Nested Game with Many Players”].

-Pierce Robinson, “The CNN Effect: Can the News Media Drive Foreign Policy?,” Review of International Studies, 25, 1999, 301-309.

-Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow, Essence of Decision (New York: Longman, 1971) [“CHAPTER 1: Model I: The Rational Actor”].

(ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIAL WILL BE ASSIGNED THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER.)