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POLS 217 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY Syllabus can be found at: www.pols.boun.edu.tr MEETING PLACE: NH401 ; NH401; IB102 MEETING TIME: T: 1, 2; Th : 2 O FFICE HOUR: T: 11:00-12:00; Th. 11:00-12:00 OFFICE: IIBF 411
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POLS 217 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY Syllabus can be found at: www.pols.boun.edu.tr MEETING PLACE: NH401; NH401; IB102 MEETING TIME: T: 1, 2; Th: 2 OFFICE HOUR:T: 11:00-12:00; Th. 11:00-12:00 OFFICE: IIBF 411 TeachingAssistant: Ekin Kurtiç ekin.kurtic@boun.edu.tr Student Assistants: Meltem Gargin, Dilek Kurtuluş, Aslıhan Saygılı, Efe Tokdemir
Reading material from syllabus • Textbooks: • D. Thomson, Europe Since Napeleon (Penguin Books, 1990) - required (copies available at the bookstore). • J. W. Young and J. Kent, International Relations Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2004) – required(copies available at the bookstore). • A. Crozier, The Causes of the Second World War (Blackwell, 1997) - required
Reading material from syllabus Supplementary and highly recommended readings: K. Barkey and M. von Hagen (eds.) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires (1997) – highly recommended in reserve W. C. McWilliams and H. Piotrowski, The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations (Lynne Reiner Publishers, Boulder, 2001) - supplementary in reserve P. Calvocoressi, World Politics 1945 - 2000 (Longman, 2001) – supplementaryin reserve. H. Kissinger, Diplomacy (Simon and Schuster, 1994) - highly recommended in reserve The following three books by E. J. Hobsbawm are highly recommended. E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 – 1848 (thereafter referred to as Hobsbawm I) E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire: 1875 – 1914 (thereafter referred to as Hobsbawm II) E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914 – 1991 (thereafter referred to as Hobsbawm III). You may also wish to supplement these textbooks with O. Sander, Ilkcağlardan 1918’e (İmge Yayınevi 16. baskı, 1998) and Siyasi Tarih 1918-1994 (İmge Yayınevi, 5. Baskı, 1996); Server Tanilli, Yüzyılların Gerçeği ve Mirası Cilt V (Adam, 2001) and for the French Revolution see Tanilli, Dünyayı Değiştiren 10 Yıl (Adam, 1999).
Rights and obligations: • lectures and reading material, • no smoking, no talking, no cellular phones, no eating-drinking, no texting, no googling etc... • mid-term (15 November) 30 % and final 45 %, attendance 15 %, 3 quizzes 2 to count 10 %, • importance of course: general knowledge but basis for understanding today’s politics.
Course Description This course examines international political and diplomatic developments between 1789, from the French Revolution, to 1989, the destruction of the Berlin Wall. This covers a period of two centuries during which the diplomatic scene and map of Europe was transformed drastically. The 19th century saw the ancien regime of the previous century come under continues pressure from nationalism as the European modern state system evolved. The First World War led to the collapse of three empires in Europe and to the expansion of the European nation-state system. However, the system remained unstable and eventually drifted into the Second World War. World War II brought about massive destruction and precipitated political changes in Europe as an iron curtain divided Europe into two blocs symbolized by the Berlin Wall. This division and the ensuing Cold War deeply affected European diplomacy and divided the world into two political blocs with a freshly decolonized world caught in between. A fragile strategic balance guarded by nuclear weapons deterred the two sides from precipitating yet another world war. The world outside Europe experienced considerable violence, instability and underdevelopment while in Western Europe the project of European integration steadily progressed.
We will study the following events: Collapse of Pax Romana and what it represented and the subsequent search for unity and stability, The tug of war between universalism (interest of the Catholic church) and state interest (Raison d’Etat), the Westphalian order, Emergence of Bourbon-France and the effort to dominate Europe at the expense of the Habsburgs, Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, return of the “ancient regime”, emergence of balance of power and “concert of Europe”, Rise of liberalism and nationalism, Italian and German reunification, polarization of Europe, the rise of the Houses of Hohenzollern and Romanovs vs. decline of the House of Ottomans and Habsburgs. First World War, the Twenty years Crisis, World War II, the Cold War and European integration.
