This course will provide the students with an enhanced understanding of the 20th century political history based on a comprehensive and systematic knowledge. The course also aims to provide the students with a framework of analysis that allows them to study the main facts and notions of political science and international relations from a historical perspective. The course is planned to provide students with fundamental notions on historical facts from the aftermath of the First World War until cold war and afterwards: the major events, figures, and topics, the relations between causes and effects, ideas and actions, people and politics. The economic and social framework of political developments will be stressed within the course. The historical narrative, which will cover the main political events and facts of the 20th century, will be reinforced with data on social, economic, and ideological structures of the period.
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Course Schedules
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Contents
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1. Week
Introduction
Lecture
2. Week
The 19th Century as the Background of the 20th Century
Lecture
3. Week
The Great Power Rivalry and World War I
Lecture
4. Week
Post-War International System
Lecture
5. Week
Revolutions in Europe and in the Colonial World & the Golden Twenties
Lecture
6. Week
Rise of Authoritarianism: Italian Fascism, German Nazism, Russian Stalinism and Spanish Civil War
Lecture
7. Week
World War II
Lecture
8. Week
Midterm exam
Midterm exam
9. Week
Midterm exam
Midterm exam
10. Week
Cold War: Basic Characteristics and Phases
Lecture
11. Week
Decolonization and the Third World
Lecture
12. Week
Decolonization and the Third World
Lecture
13. Week
New Order or Disorder: From Cold War to Cold Peace or New World (Dis)Order
Lecture
14. Week
General Review
Lecture
15. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
16. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
17. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
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Midterm(s)
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30
Attendance
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10
Final Exam
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60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To identify and use theoretical and practical knowledge in International Relations.
PO-2
To express ideas and assessments about contemporary debates in International Relations.
PO-3
To acknowledge ethical and scientific responsibilities of data collection, evaluation and publication.
PO-4
To monitor and interpret published studies in International Relations.
PO-5
To use a second language at an intermediate level.
PO-6
To analyze, compare and relate different local, regional and global developments in International Relations.
PO-7
To analyze, compare and relate International Relations with theories and practices of different associate departments and their sub-fields and to offer suggestions by combining these fields.
PO-8
To present substantial knowledge for various public, private and academic career positions.
PO-9
To analyze the emergence and functions of prominent regional and local actors and to make future projections about their actions.
PO-10
To theoretically and practically examine different events and facts in International Relations and Foreign Policy and to interpret their past, present, and future through a scientific perspective.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
1. Analyzes the 20th century political history.
LO-2
2. Evaluates the 20th century political history in the context of international relations.
LO-3
3. Discusses the process of global reconstruction, decolonization and cold war.
LO-4
4. Formulates the events and facts that came to the fore during the cold war.
LO-5
5. Defines the cold war politics and concepts and analyzes the new world order.
