Current Semester

Political and economic developments in Turkey’s neighborhood: the Balkans, the Caucasus, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Turkey’s economic and political relations with its neighbors.
Turkey's political system, constitutions, administrative structure, political parties, elections, and interest groups.
Analysis of changes in contemporary global economy. Focus on global trade, finance, and production. Emphasis in changing role of state and global institutions.
Development issues from European, Middle Eastern and North African perspectives. Regions and regionalism in development studies. Interactions within the regions and with the global economy.
Changing patterns of global politics, the actuality of nation-state as a political form and recent debates on empire as a political category. Comparison of historical empires of the nineteenth-century with contemporary state forms.