SUİ434

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

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Elective

English

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SUİ students take the course as departmental elective. Other programs can take it as faculty or university elective course.

SUI 434 aims to provide a comprehensive conceptual and empirical overview of the evolving debates of gender in the discipline of International Relations (IR). The course will examine sub-disciplines of IR such as international security, political economy and foreign policy analysis as well as major IR concepts and phenomena such as state, war, sovereignty, global governance, human rights and migration from a gender perspective.

Anne S. Runyon and V. Spike Peterson, Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium, Fourth Edition, (Westview, CT: Westview Press, 2014).
Cynthia Enloe, Bananas,Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Second Edition, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).
J. Ann Tickner, “Searching for the Princess? Feminist Perspectives in International Relations”, Harvard International Review, Fall 1999, 44-48.
Jane Pilcher & Imelda Whelehan, “Feminism”, “Gender”, “Masculinity” and “Patriarchy” in Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, SAGE, 2004, 48-52; 56-61; 82-85; 93-96.
Tanıl Bora, “Feminizm” (10. Bölüm), Cereyanlar: Türkiye’de Siyasi İdeolojiler, (İletişim Yayınları, 2017), 741-819.
J. Ann Tickner, “Introduction: Gendering World Politics” & “Troubled Encounters: Feminism Meets IR” (Chapter 1), in Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era, (Columbia University Press, 2001), 1-35.
Lene Hansen, “Ontologies, Epistemologies, Methodologies” (Chapter 2), in Laura J. Shepherd (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics: A feminist introduction to International Relations, (Routledge, 2010), 17-27.
J. Ann Tickner, “What is your Research Program? Some Feminist Answers to International Relations Methodological Questions”, International Studies Quarterly, 2005, 49(1): 1-21.
Iris Marion Young, “The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 29:1, 2003, 1-25.
Cynthia Cockburn, “Militarism and War” (Chapter 8) & Donna Pankhurst, “Sexual Violence in War “(Chapter 11) in Laura Shepherd (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, 105-115 &148-160.
Nicola Pratt, “Weaponising feminism for the “war on terror”, versus employing strategic silence”, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2013, 6 (2): 327-331.
Orna Sasson-Levy, “Feminism and Military Gender Practices: Israeli Women Soldiers in “Masculine” Roles”, Sociological Inquiry, 2003, 73(3): 440–465.
Nadje Al-Ali, “Reconstructing Gender: Iraqi women between dictatorship, war, sanctions and occupation”, Third World Quarterly, 2005, 26(4-5): 739-758.
Gülriz Şen & Başak Yavçan, “Gender, radicalization, and patriarchy in Turkey: an analysis of women’s motivations and constraints when confronted with ISIS and the al-Nusra front”, Turkish Studies, 2024, 25(2): 257-279.
Zahood Ahmad Wani, “Women, extremism and repression under Taliban 2.0 in Afghanistan: beyond the good”, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2024, 35(7): 1212–1232.
Karin Aggestam and Ann Towns, “The gender turn in diplomacy: a new research agenda”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019, 21(1): 9-28.
Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True, “The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” (Chapter 16), Marian Sawer et. al. Handbook of Feminist Governance, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 203-215.
Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm ve Bahar Rumelili, “Diplomaside Kadın ve Egemen Maskülenlik: Değişen Normlar ve Pratikler”, Uluslararası İlişkiler, 2018, 15(57): 3-18.
Handbook of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (2014), online available at: https://www.government.se/reports/2018/08/handbook-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy/
Diane Elson, “Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries: a framework for analysis”, Gender & Development, 2010, 18(2): 201-212.
Catherine Rottenberg, “The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism”, Cultural Studies, 2014, 28(3): 418-437.
Naila Kabeer, Shahra Razavi & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, “Feminist Economic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Feminist Economics, 2021, 27(1-2), 1-29.
Viviene Taylor, “Human Rights and Human Security: Feminists Contesting the Terrain” (Chapter 13), in Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements, (Oxford University Press, 2015), 346-366.
Marella Bodur Ün & Harun Arıkan, “Europeanization and De-Europeanization of Turkey’s Gender Equality Policy: The Case of the Istanbul Convention”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 1-18, doi: 10.1111/jcms.13292
Jindy Pettman, “Migration” (Chapter 18), in Laura Shepherd (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, 251-264.
-UNDP, “Gender and Climate Change: Overview of linkages between gender and climate change”, 2017, 1-8.
Jennifer F. Klot, “UN Security Council Resolution 1325: A Feminist Transformative Agenda?” (Chapter 28), in Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements, 723-745.
S. Laurel Weldon, “Power, exclusion and empowerment: Feminist innovation in Political Science”, Women’s Studies International Forum 72, 2019: 127–136.
Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk, “Gender, anti- gender and right- wing populism Recasting the debate” (Chapter 1), Anti- Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Routledge, 15-37.
S. Laurel Weldon et al. “Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave”, Women’s Studies International Forum 99, 2023: 1-10.
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Fear and fury: women and post-revolutionary violence”, Open Democracy, 10 January 2013.
J. Ann Tickner, “Conclusions and Beginnings: Some Pathways for IR Feminist Futures” (Chapter 5), Gendering World Politics, 125-147.

The course aims to discuss gender inequality in global politics through conceptual and empirical examples and analyze the structural reasons behind women's unequal access to rights, resources and representation by drawing on the ontological, epistemological and methodological contributions of feminist approaches in IR since the 1980s. The course aims to provide an in-depth discussion of the gendered nature of global politics.

1. Students reinterpret the main actors and debates in International Relations in the light of feminist approaches in the discipline and learn to look at current developments in international politics, the economic system and social reality from a gendered perspective.
2. Students learn to see the link between various sub-disciplines of Political Science and International Relations and gender norms, and learn to analyze gender patterns in the history of political thought, security, foreign policy, political economy, global governance and migration.
3. Students learn about the obstacles to Gender Equality as a Sustainable Development Goal by examining the structural factors that lead to women's unequal access to rights, resources and representation. They also acquire awareness and knowledge about the global scale social and political struggles for gender equality.
4. Students develop oral and written communication skills by participating in class discussions and preparing and presenting papers analyzing global issues through a gender lens.
5. Students become familiar with the relevant academic literature in English and use their academic English effectively to acquire, produce and share knowledge.

Week 1: Introduction to the course
Week 2: Gender in Global Politics: Key concepts and discussions
Week 3: Feminism: Conceptual and historical overview & Feminist thought and movements in Turkey
Week 4: Feminist ontologies, methodologies & research agenda in IR
Week 5: Gender, State and Violence
Week 6: Gender, State and Violence
Week 7: Women in Foreign Policy & Feminist Foreign Policy
Week 8: Gender and International Political Economy
Week 9: Globalization and Gender: Women’s Human Rights, Women’s Security, Migration and Climate Change
Week 10: International Organizations and Women in Global Governance
Week 11: The Future of Gender and Gender Studies in International Relations
Week 12: Student Presentations

• Participation: 15 %
• Midterm 35 %
• Term Paper 40 %
• Presentation of the term paper 10 %