PSIR 240 | Course Introduction and Application Information

• Öğr. Gör. Dr. Benal Nazlı ÜSTÜNES DEMİRHAN

• Araş. Gör. Nil DİKMENGİL

The students who succeeded in this course;

• to identify the political, military, economic strengths and weaknesses of the European Great Powers such as Habsburg Spain, Bourbon and later Napoleonic France, Victorian Britain, and Wilhelmian Germany.
• to outline the financial, military and diplomatic “revolutions” in the history of international relations as well as the historical development of the rising force of the secularist ‘realpolitik’ and that of the nation-states in western and central Europe.
• to critique the basis for revisionism found in the peace treaties ending WW I comparing the Vienna Order of 1815 with the Paris Order of 1919
• to discuss the political and military rise of the totalitarian regimes, the relative decline of the Western democracies and the failure of a “policy of appeasement” and the League of Nations in the Interwar Period
• to discuss the origins and the phases of the “Cold War”, the weaknesses of the European Great Powers in the aftermath of WW II and the two superpowers’ strengths and global positions throughout the major crises of the Cold War.
• to assess the reasons for the Soviet collapse in front of the U.S. economic and military challenge in the 1980’s and for the end of the Cold War and the bi-polar system of international relations.

• Kennedy, Paul. 1989. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. London: Unwin Hyman
• Kramer, Llyod., Palmer R. R. and Colton, Joel. 2020. A History of Europe in the Modern World. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Kissinger, Henry. 1994. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Devetak, Richard, George, Jim, and Percy, Sarah. 2017. An Introduction to International Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 9 and 10)
• Grieco, Joseph, and Ikenberry, John. 2015. Introduction to International Relations. London: Palgrave. (Chapter 2: The Emergence of a Global System of States, 1500–today).

Oral Sander. 2002. Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e. İmge Kitabevi.

Oral Sander. 2002. Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994. İmge Kitabevi.