| 1 | Introduction to the course: concepts of foreign policy and foreign policy analysis; the content of foreign policy analysis; theoretical and historical development. | Efegil, 2012: 13-32; Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 13-34; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 45-73 |
| 2 | Conceptual framework I: Main concepts, actors, structures and decision making. | Efegil, 2012: 33-74, 105-127; Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 113-146; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 5-23 |
| 3 | Conceptual framework II: Foreign policy objectives, strategies and tools of states. | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 147-203; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 23-44 |
| 4 | Conceptual framework III: National, international, sociological and pshcological environmental factos in foreign policy analysis. | Efegil, 2012: 147-242 |
| 5 | Case Study 1: US foreign policy/Cuban missiles crisis. | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 256-283; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 147-211 |
| 6 | Case Study 2: Great Britain’s foreign policy / War on Iraq | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 419-440; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 213-228 |
| 7 | Case Study 3: French foreign policy/ Withdrawal from the NATO Integrated Military Command Structures | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: ; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 229-270 |
| 8 | Case Study 4: Russian foreign policy/2006-2009 natural gas crisis | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 441-462; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 465-486 |
| 9 | Case Study 5: Chinese foreign policy/Tian’anmen Square incidents | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 327-347; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 487-511 |
| 10 | Case Study 6: Israel’s foreign policy/ Yom-Kippur war | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 400-418; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 421-463 |
| 11 | Case Study 7: UN’s foreign policy/SC intervention decisions | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: ; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 567-587 |
| 12 | Case Study 8: EU’s foreign policy/2015 migration crisis | Smith, Hadfield ve Dunne, 2016: 463-483; Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 541-565 |
| 13 | Case Study 9: Turkish foreign policy/Iran nuclear crisis | Sönmezoğlu ve Bayır, 2014: 589-636; Ayman, 2012: 547-591 |
| 14 | Term discussion | --- |