SUİ337

School of Economics and Administrative Sciences \ Political Science and International Relations

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Elective

Turkish

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Elective for all programs

Foreign Policy Analysis course analyzes how states make decisions in the international arena, the factors affecting these processes, and different theoretical approaches. This course briefly examines how we can evaluate foreign policy. In this context, rational actor model, bureaucratic policy model
and the foreign policy making process is analyzed within the framework of alternative theories.

Laura Neack, New Foreign Policy: Complex Interactions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

The aim of this course is to provide students with the ability to analyze foreign policy from the perspective of different theories.
In addition, it is aimed to learn the models that they can analyze the foreign policy making process.

1. Students will learn the main theories and approaches of foreign policy analysis.
2. Students gains the ability to analyze foreign policy decision-making processes.
3. Students will be able to interpret foreign policy from different international relations perspectives.
4. Students will be able to apply methodological tools used in foreign policy analysis.

Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Foreign Policy Analysis - Theoretical Approaches I
Week 3: Foreign Policy Analysis - Theoretical Approaches II
Week 4: Foreign Policy Analysis - Theoretical Approaches III
Week 5: Rational Actor Model I
Week 6: Rational Actor Model II
Week 7: Midterm
Week 8: Bureaucratic Politics Model I
Week 9: Bureaucratic Politics Model II
Week 10: Civil Society and Foreign Policy
Week 11: Cognitive Theory of Foreign Policy Analysis
Week 12: Do We Need a Foreign Policy?

• Midterm 40 %
• Final 60 %