| Teaching Staff
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Prof. Dr. Haydar ÇAKMAK |
| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe (Turkish) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
No Pre-requisites |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
To inform students about the most important event in recent history, the Cold War Period. For this purpose, the pre-Cold War epoch, emergence of the Cold War, the formation of the Eastern and Western Blocks, important competition points, the relations of the superpowers with other countries, their phases and the ending era of Cold War will be examined. |
| Course Content |
The course covers the emergence process of the Cold War period, the formation of the Eastern and Western Blocs, the areas of conflict between these blocs, the foregin affairs of the USA and the Soviet Union with other countries, the stages of change and the end of the Cold War period. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
1. Having knowledge about the Cold War;
2. Understanding the Bipolar World Order;
3. Understanding the concepts of superpower, dominant power, client / dependent country;
4. Examining the change in the world order |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction: What is Cold War? |
| 2. Week |
World in Post-World War II Era |
| 3. Week |
First Berlin Crisis and Emergence of the Cold War |
| 4. Week |
Sides of the Cold War: Bipolar World Order |
| 5. Week |
Chinese Revolution, Soviet Atomic Bomb and Korean War |
| 6. Week |
Pro-Soviet Rule and Insurgency in Eastern Europe |
| 7. Week |
MIDTERM |
| 8. Week |
Superpower Competition for Newly Independent Countries, Modernization Theory |
| 9. Week |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 10. Week |
Détente Period and East-West Convergence, Turkish - Soviet Cooperation, Vietnam War |
| 11. Week |
The 1970s Oil Crisis and Relations between Blocs after Normalization of Relations with China |
| 12. Week |
The Occupation of Afghanistan, the Iranian Revolution and the New Cold War |
| 13. Week |
Gorbachev, Reagan and the End of the Cold War |
| 14. Week |
General Review |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
- John Lewis Gaddis, Soğuk Savaş: Pazarlıklar, Casuslar, Yalanlar, Gerçek, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2018. - Also, essays related with the course will be shared with the students. |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| PQ 1 | PQ 2 | PQ 3 | PQ 4 | PQ 5 | PQ 6 | PQ 7 | PQ 8 | PQ 9 | PQ 10 | PQ 11 | PQ 12 | PQ 13 | PQ 14 | PQ 15 | PQ 16 | PQ 17 | LO 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | LO 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | LO 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | LO 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | | 5 | 4 | | | | 5 | | | | | | | 5 |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |