| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Identifying Main Issues in Eurasian Politics |
None |
| 2) |
Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
*Stephen F. Cohen, “Was the Soviet System Reformable?”, Slavic Review, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2004, pp. 459-488
*Astrid S. Tuminez, “Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union”, Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 81-136
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| 3) |
Political Transformation Process of the Russian Federation and the Newly Independent States |
Brown, 2001, ss. 17-96 |
| 4) |
Economic Transformation Process of the Russian Federation and the Newly Independent States |
* Anders Aslund, “Why Has Russia’s Economic Transformation Been So Arduous?”, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, 1999.
* Sergei Guriev & Andrei Rachinsky, “The Role of Oligarchs in Russian Capitalism,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2005, pp. 131-150
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| 5) |
Economic and Political Developments in Russia During Putin Terms |
* Angela E. Stent, “Restoration and Revolution in Putin’s Foreign Policy”, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.63, No. 6, 2008, pp. 1089-1106
* Natalia Morozova, “Geopolitics, Eurasianism and Russian Foreign Policy under Putin”, Geopolitics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2009, pp.667-686
* Andrei Tsygankov, “Vladimir Putin’s Vision of Russia as a Normal Great Power”, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2005, pp. 132-158
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| 6) |
Dynamics of the Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet Space |
* David Lane, “‘Colored Revolution’ as a Political Phenomenon,” Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25, No. 2-3, 2009, pp. 113-135.
* Donnacha Ó Beacháin, “Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan,” Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2-3, 2009, pp. 199-226.
* Paul D’Anieri, “What Has Changed in Ukrainian Politics?: Assessing the Implications of the Orange Revolution”, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 52, No. 5, 2005, pp. 82-91
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| 7) |
Midterm Exam |
None |
| 8) |
Politics, Conflicts, and ‘Frozen’ Conflicts in Eurasia |
* Stephen Blank, “Russia and Black Sea’s Frozen Conflicts in Strategic Perspective”, Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 23-54
* Stefan Wolf, “A Resolvable Frozen Conflict? Designing a Settlement for Transnistria”, Nationality Papers, Vol. 39, No. 6, 2001, pp. 863-870
* William H. Hill, “Reflections on Negotiation and Mediation: The Frozen Conflicts and European Security”, Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 18, No. 3, (Summer 2010, pp. 219-227
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| 9) |
Integration Policies of the International Actors Toward Post-Soviet Space |
* Mark Kramer, “Russian Foreign Policy Toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent Trends and Future Prospects”, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 55, No. 6, 2008, pp. 3-19
* Marcin Lapczynski, “The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Chances and Perspectives”, Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009, pp. 143-155
* George Christou, “European Union Security Logics to the East: The European Neighborhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership”, European Security, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2010, pp. 413-430
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| 10) |
The Evolution of the Russia-NATO Relations Since 1991 |
* Dmitry Polikanov, “NATO-Russia Relations: Present and Future”, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2004, pp. 479-497
* Oksana Antonenko & Bastian Giegerich, “Rebooting NATO-Russia Relations”, Survival, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2009, pp. 13-21
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| 11) |
Russia-EU Relations in the Context of Eurasia |
* Hiski Haukkala, “From Cooperative to Contested Europe? The Conflict in Ukraine as a Culmination of a Long-Term Crisis in EU–Russia Relations”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2015, pp. 25-40
* Fyodor Lukyanov, “Russia–EU: The Partnership That Went Astray”, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.60, No. 6, 2008, pp. 1107-1119
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| 12) |
Energy Politics in the Eurasia: Energy as a Foreign Policy Tool |
* F. Stephen Larrabee, “Russia, Ukraine, and Central Europe: The Return of Geopolitics”, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2010, pp. 33-52
* Dmitri Trenin, “The Ukraine Crisis and the Resumption of Great-Power Rivalry”, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2014.
* David A. Deese, “Energy: Economics, Politics, and Security”, International Security, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 140-153
* Bertil Nygren, “Putin’s Use of Natural Gas to Reintegrate the CIS Region,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 55, July/August 2008, pp. 3-15
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| 13) |
Turkey-Russia Relations after the Cold War |
* Şener Aktürk, Turkis-Russian relations after the Cold War (1992-2002), Turkish Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2006, pp. 337-364
* Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “Turkey and Russia in a Shifting Global Order: Co-operation, Conflict and Asymmetric Interdependence in a Turbulent Region”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2016, pp. 71-95
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| 14) |
Overall Assessment of Eurasian Politics |
None |
| 15) |
Final Exam |
None |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area.
2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture.
3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications.
4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way. |
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| 2) |
1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations.
2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction.
3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media.
4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage.
5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation.
6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas. |
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| 3) |
1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce.
2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media.
3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values.
4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading. |
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| 4) |
1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering.
2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms.
3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics
4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication.
5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication. |
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| 5) |
1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution.
2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research.
3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way. |
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| 6) |
1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view.
2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication.
3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories.
4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices.
5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation |
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