Syllabus can be found at: www.pols.boun.edu.tr MEETING PLACE: IB102; IB102; IB102 MEETING TIME: T: 1, 2; Th: 2

1. Syllabus can be found at:  www.pols.boun.edu.tr     MEETING PLACE:  IB102; IB102; IB102 MEETING TIME: T: 1,2; Th: 2 OFFICE HOUR: T: 11:00-12:00; Th. 11:00-12:00 OFFICE: IIBF 411   Assistant:Ekin Kurtiç ; ekin.kurtic@boun.edu.tr

2. Reading material from syllabus  • Textbooks: • D. Thomson, Europe Since Napeleon  (Penguin Books, 1990)  - required • J. W. Young and J. Kent, International Relations Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2004) - required • A. Crozier, The Causes of the Second World War (Blackwell, 1997) - required Supplementary and highly recommended readings: • P. Calvocoressi, World Politics 1945 - 2000 (Longman, 2001) - required (available at the bookstore).  • W. C. McWilliams and H. Piotrowski, The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations (Lynne Reiner Publishers, Boulder, 2001) - required (couple of copies available at the bookstore).

3. Reading material from syllabus  Supplementary and highly recommended readings: 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). 

4. Rights and obligations:  • lectures and reading material, • no smoking, no talking, no cellular phones, no eating-drinking, • mid-term (11 November) 30% and final 45% • quizzes (3 quizzes 2 to count) 10% • Participation 15 % • importance of course: general knowledge but basis for understanding today’s politics.

5. This course is the story of a long period during which the modern state system in Europe emerged. It will be story of the politics and diplomacy behind the way in which the political geography of Europe changed across time from Pax-Romana to the Holy Roman Empire, the disunity and instability of Medieval Europe to Westphalia, the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna Congress, German and Italian Unification, the First World War, the Second World War, the Cold War and Post Cold War era. The emphasis will be on changing frontiers but also internal orders as well as the rise and decline of ruling “houses”. 

6. 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 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 Ottoman and Habsburgs. First World War, the Twenty years Crisis, World War II, the Cold War and European integration.

7. ROMAN EMPIRE

8. Holy Roman Empire (Carolingian)

9. Europe in 1328

12. Habsburgs in 1547

13. HRE in 1630 superimposed on present day frontiers

14. Westphalia

15. 1648

16. Europe in 1812

18. Europe After the Vienna Congress

20. UNIFICATION OF ITALY

21. UNIFICATION OF GERMANY

22. Pre-WWI

23. Post-WWI

24. Pre-WWII 

25. Post-WWII

26. Post WWII

27. 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 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 Ottoman and Habsburgs. • First World War, the Twenty years Crisis, World War II, the Cold War and European integration.