DERS TANITIM ve UYGULAMA BİLGİLERİ

Dersin Adı Kodu Yarıyıl T+U+L (saat/hafta) Türü (Z / S) Yerel Kredi AKTS
Karadeniz Bölgesinde Siyaset ve Güvenlik IR 541 Güz-Bahar 03+00+00 Seçmeli 3 7.5
Akademik Birim: International Relations
Öğrenim Türü: Örgün Eğitim
Ön Koşullar None
Öğrenim Dili: İngilizce
Dersin Düzeyi: Yüksek Lisans
Dersin Koordinatörü: Hamid Akın ÜNVER
Dersin Amacı: 1. Acquiring advanced knowledge of the key issues, challenges, stakeholders and their objectives and interaction in the Black Sea Region;
2. critical analysis in discussions and written work;
3. Acquiring ability to conduct Independent research;
4. Confident engagement with complex issues;
5. Improving the ability of making analysis- synthesis, and connecting between events, texts and principles.
Dersin İçeriği: This course focuses on the developing synergies in the Black Sea Region. In particular, it assesses the process of regional cooperation from both a historical and a theoretical approach with a particular focus how this process has developed in the Black Sea Region in the post-Cold War era, when it acquired greater clarity and depth. The course also looks at issues relevant to economic cooperation and development, with a particular focus on the role of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. The course also focuses on a number of regional security concerns such as “frozen” and “protracted” conflicts in the region and energy security. In this context, the role of powerful regional and extraregional stakeholders such as Russia, Turkey and the United states is evaluated. Finally, the role of the European Union as a rising power in the Black Sea Region is explored in depth. There is an assessment of its European Neighborhood Policy as well more recent initiatives such as the Black Sea Synergy and the Eastern Partnership and how these impact on the Black Sea Region in conjunction with the increasing role of the European Union in its attempt to resolve the various “protracted” conflicts in the region as well as the parallel development of a cohesive energy strategy.
Dersin Öğrenme Çıktıları (ÖÇ):
  • 1- Possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Black Sea Region dynamics and their relevance
  • 2- Understand analytically the process of regionalism in the region
  • 3- Possess in depth knowledge of the role of the regional and extraregional stakeholders in shaping the region
  • 4- Possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of the role of the European Union in the region via an analysis of its
  • 5- Possess good knowledge of the relevance and impact of cross regional issues such as democratization and energy security
  • 6- Possess skills and ability to independently present, analyze and discusss issues related to the Black Sea region, both orally and in writing
Dersin Öğrenme Yöntem ve Teknikleri Seminar format where students are expected to do the readings prior to lectures; the class will convene in a half hour lecture format and two and a half hours discussion format.


HAFTALIK PROGRAM

HaftaKonularÖn Hazırlık
1 Introduction – Why study the Black Sea – understanding its relevance
2 The Black Sea Region in Context
3 Conceptual tools to understanding the process of regionalism historically and theoretically
4 Regional Cooperation in the Black sea Region
5 Regional Cooperation in the Black sea Region
6 ENP and Regional Cooperation
7 Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region
8 Book Review exam; Security Concerns in the Blac k Sea Region
9 Security Concerns in the Blac k Sea Region
10 Security Concerns in the Blac k Sea Region
11 Energy Concerns in the Black Sea Region
12 Energy Concerns in the Black Sea Region; paper presentations
13 Paper presentations
14 Looking Ahead and Leassons Learned


ZORUNLU ve ÖNERİLEN OKUMALAR

Main texbooks
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, ed., The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 168.

Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott, eds., The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), pp. 384. http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/bin/w/q/Wider_Black_Sea.pdf

• The Black Sea Region in context
Ian O. Lesser, “Global Trends, Regional Consequences: Wider Strategic Influences on the Black Sea,” Xenophon Paper 4 (Athens: ICBSS, November 2007), http://icbss.org/media/108_original.pdf

Felix Ciută, “Region? Why Region? Security, Hermeneutics, and the Making of the Black Sea Region,” Geopolitics 13, no.1 (January 2008): 120–147,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650040701783367#preview

Carol Weaver, “Black Sea regional security: present multipolarity and future possibilities,” European Security 20, no.1 (2011), 1-19
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09662839.2010.510517

Mustafa Aydin, “Europe’s Next Shore: The Black Sea Region after EU Enlargement,” Occasional Paper 53 (Paris: EUISS, 2004), http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/occ53.pdf

Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, “The Uncertain Times of Black Sea Regional Security”, in The Complexities of Black Sea Regional Security, Euxeinos Journal, Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, University of St. Gallen, 6/2012, August 2012, pp. 4-10.
http://www.academia.edu/2274628/The_Uncertain_Times_of_Black_Sea_Regional_Security


• Regional Cooperation
Louise Fawcett, “Regionalism in Historical Perspective,” in Regionalism in World Politics, ed. Louise Fawcett and Andrew Hurell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Andrew Hurell, “Regionalism in Theoretical Perspective,” in Regionalism in World Politics, ed. Louise Fawcett and Andrew Hurell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Björn Hettne, “Beyond the ‘New’ Regionalism,” New Political Economy 10, no. 4 (London: Routledge, December 2005), 543-571,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563460500344484#preview

• Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Region
Sergiu Celac and Panagiota Manoli, “Towards a New Model of Comprehensive Regionalism in the Black Sea Area,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 6, no. 2 (June 2006), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683850600694262

Sergiu Celac, “The Role and Potential of the Organisation of the BSEC”, CIES Neighbourhood Policy Paper 01, (Istanbul: CIES, November 2011),
http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/NeighbourhoodPolicyPaper(01)(1).pdf

Panagiota Manoli, “Black Sea Regionalism in Perspective,” CIES Neighbourhood Policy Paper 02 (Istanbul: CIES, December 2011),
http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/NeighbourhoodPolicyPaper(02)(1).pdf

Panagiota Manoli, ed., “Unfolding the Black Sea Economic Cooperation: Views from the Region,” Xenophon Paper 2 (Athens: ICBSS, July 2007), http://icbss.org/media/106_original.pdf

Commission of the European Communities, Communication from the Commission on A Strong European Neighbourhood Policy, COM(2007) 774 final, Brussels, 5 December 2007, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/com07_774_en.pdf

_______, Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy, 4 December 2006, COM(2006)726 final, Brussels, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/com06_726_en.pdf


• The Black Sea Region and the European Union
Council of the European Union, Joint Declaration of the Prague Eastern Partnership Summit, Prague, 7 May 2009, Brussels, 7 May 2009,
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/er/107589.pdf

European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. “European Neighbourhood Policy: Working Towards a Stronger Partnership.” Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Brussels, 20 March 2013.
http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/docs/2013_enp_pack/2013_comm_conjoint_en.pdf

Commission of the European Communities, Communication from the Commission to the Parliament and the Council on the Eastern Partnership, COM (2008) 823/4 final, Brussels, 3 December 2008, http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/neighbourhood/eastern_partnership/documents/eastern_partnership_communication_from_the_commission_to_the_european_parliament_and_the_council_en.pdf

_______, Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, Report on the First Year of Implementation of the Black Sea Synergy, COM (2008) 391 final, Brussels, 19 June 2008, http://eeas.europa.eu/blacksea/doc/com08_391_en.pdf

_______,Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, Black Sea Synergy – A New Regional Cooperation Initiative, Brussels, 11 March 2007, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/com07_160_en.pdf

European Council, Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy – Providing Security in a Changing World, Brussels, 11 and 12 December 2008, http://www.eu-un.europa.eu/documents/en/081211_EU Security Strategy.pdf

_______, A Secure Europe in a Better World – The European Security Strategy, Brussels, 12 December 2003, http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/78367.pdf

Cornelius Ochmann, “EU Eastern Partnership: Fine, but what about Russia?” Spotlight Europe, no. 2009/06 (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, May 2009),
http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xbcr/SID-0CFEDE39-509242A0/bst_engl/Engl_spotlight_EU Eastern Partnership_09-05-28.pdf

Daniel Grotzky and Mirel Isic, “The Black Sea Region: Clashing Identities and Risks to European Stability,” CAP Policy Analysis 4 (October 2008), http://www.cap.lmu.de/download/2008/CAP-Policy-Analysis-2008-04.pdf

Dimitrios Triantaphyllou and Yannis Tsantoulis, “Looking Beyond the Georgian Crisis: The EU in Search of an Enhanced Presence in the Black Sea Region,” ICBSS Policy Brief, no. 8 (Athens: ICBSS, 2008), http://icbss.org/media/121_original.pdf

Yannis Tsantoulis, “The Black Sea Synergy and the Eastern Partnership: Different centres of gravity, complementarity or just sending the wrong signals to the region?” ICBSS Policy Brief, no. 12 (Athens: ICBSS, February 2009), http://icbss.org/media/125_original.pdf

________, “Subregionalism in the Black Sea and the EU’s Role: Incentives, Obstacles and a ‘New Synergy’,” ZEI Discussion Paper (Bonn: Center for European Integration Studies, 2008), http://www.zei.uni-bonn.de/dateien/discussion-paper/dp_c183_Tsantoulis.pdf

Jos Boonstra and Natalia Shapovalova, “The EU's Eastern Partnership: One year backwards,” FRIDE Working Paper 99 (Madrid: Fride, May 2010).
http://fride.org/publication/764/the-eu'-s-eastern-partnership:-one-year-backwards

Elena Gnedina and Nicu Popescu, “The European Neighbourhood Policy's First Decade in the Eastern Neighbourhood,” CIES Neighbourhood Policy Paper 03 (Istanbul: CIES, July 2012), http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/black_sea_03A.pdf


• European Neighbourhood Policy and Regional Cooperation
Andreas Marchetti, “The European Neighbourhood Policy: Foreign Policy at the EU’s Periphery,” ZEI Discussion Paper C158 (Bonn: Center for European Integration Studies, December 2006), http://www.zei.uni-bonn.de/dateien/discussion-paper/dp_c158Marchetti.pdf

Roberto Aliboni and Fouad M. Ammor, “Under the Shadow of ‘Barcelona’: From the EMP to the Union for the Mediterranean,” EuroMeSCo Paper 77, January 2009, http://www.euromesco.net/images/paper77eng.pdf

Tedo Japaridze, Panagiota Manoli, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou and Yannis Tsantoulis, “The EU's Ambivalent Relationship with the BSEC: Reflecting on the Past, Mapping out the Future,” ICBSS Policy Brief, no.20 (Athens: ICBSS, January 2010), http://icbss.org/media/133_original.pdf

Tedo Japaridze, “A Memo on How to Make the EU – BSEC Relations Relevant and Productive,” ICBSS Policy Brief, no.11 (Athens: ICBSS, February 2009),
http://icbss.org/media/124_original.pdf

Alexandros Yannis, “The European Union and the Black Sea Region: The New Eastern Frontiers and Europeanisation,” ICBSS Policy Brief, no.7 (Athens: ICBSS, May 2008), http://icbss.org/media/120_original.pdf

European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. “Delivering on a new European Neighbourhood Policy.” Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Brussels, 15 May 2012. Accessed 18 June 2012.
http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/docs/2012_enp_pack/delivering_new_enp_en.pdf

Fischer, Sabine and Erwan Lannon. “The ENP Strategic Review: The EU and its Neighbourhood at a Crossroads.” European Union Institute for Security Studies, ISS Analysis, May 2011. Accessed 18 June 2012.
http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/ENP_Strategic_Review.pdf

European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. “A new response to a changing Neighbourhood.” Joint Communication to the European parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Brussels, COM(2011) 303. Brussels, 25 May 2011. Accessed 18 June 2012.
http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/com_11_303_en.pdf.

European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. “Eastern Partnership: A Roadmap to the autumn 2013 Summit.” Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Brussels, 15 May 2012. Accessed 18 June 2012.
http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/docs/2012_enp_pack/e_pship_roadmap_en.pdf


• Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region
Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, 2012 Annual Report (Thessaloniki: BSTDB, 2013), 9-27, http://www.bstdb.org/publications/BSTDB_Annual_Report_2012.pdf

Vasily Astrov and Peter Havlik, “Economic Development in the Wider Black Sea Region”, in The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), 121-147.

Panayotis Gavras and Ghinea Arminio Iorga, “The Impact of the Current Economic and Financial Crisis on the Black Sea Region,” ICBSS Policy Brief, no.18 (Athens: ICBSS, October 2009 http://icbss.org/media/131_original.pdf

Panayotis Gavras, Policy Report I: The Current State of Economic Development in the Black Sea Region (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2010),
http://www.harvard-rgp.org/static/files/411/black_sea_policy_reporti_economy.pdf

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. “Regional Economic Prospect in EBRD Countries of Operations: May 2013.” EBRD Office of Chief Economist, 2013. http://www.ebrd.com/downloads/research/REP/regional-economic-prospects1205.pdf


• Security Concerns in the Black Sea Region
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, "The ‘security paradoxes’ of the Black Sea region," in The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 3-20.

Mustafa Aydın, "Geographical blessing versus geopolitical curse: great power security agendas for the Black Sea region and a Turkish alternative,” in The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 49-64.

F. Stephen Larrabee, "The United States and security in the Black Sea region," in The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 79-94.

Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu, "Russian and European neighbourhood policies compared," in The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 95-110.

Sabine Fischer, "The European Union and security in the Black Sea region after the Georgia crisis,” in The Security Context in the Black Sea Region, edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 111-128.

Dmitri Trenin, “Russia’s Perspective on the Wider Black Sea Region,” in The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), 103-120.

Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova, “Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Area in the Context of EU-Russia Relations”, Xenophon Paper, no.5 (Athens: ICBSS, 2008),
http://icbss.org/media/109_original.pdf
Hannes Adomeit, “Putin's 'Eurasian Union': Russia's Integration Project and Policies on Post-Soviet Space,” CIES Neighbourhood Policy Paper 04 (Istanbul: CIES, July 2012), http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/black_sea_04(1).pdf

Stanislav Secrieru, “Protracted Conflicts in the Eastern Neighborhood: Between Averting Wars and Building Trust.” Neighborhood Policy Papers, Center for International and European Studies no.6, 2013.
http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/NeighbourhoodPolicyPaper(06)(5).pdf


• Energy Concerns in the Black Sea Region
John Roberts, Energy Cooperation among the BSEC Member States: Towards an Energy Strategy for the BSEC, Xenophon Paper, no. 3 (Athens: ICBSS, October 2007, http://icbss.org/media/107_original.pdf

Michael Thumann, “European Energy Security, the Black Sea and Russian Interests – Can there be a Common Strategy?” in Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea, ed. Ronald D. Asmus (Washington, D.C.: The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2006), 125-135.
http://www.harvard-bssp.org/static/files/271/BSBook.pdf

Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, “Energy Security and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP): The Wider Black Sea Area Context,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 7, no. 2 (June 2007), 289-302. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683850701402227

Gareth Winrow, “Geopolitics and Energy Security in the Wider Black Sea Region,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 7, no. 2 (June 2007), 217-235.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683850701402060

Gerhard Mangott and Kirsten Westphal, “The Relevance of the Wider Black Sea Region to EU and Russian Energy Issues,” in The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), 147-177.

Nikolay Kaveshnikov, “The issue of energy security in relations between Russia and the European Union.” European Security 19(2010): 585-605. Accessed 18 June 2012.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09662839.2010.531707#preview

Mitat Çelikpala, “Turkey and the New Energy Politics of the Black Sea Region.” Neighborhood Policy Papers, Center for International and European Studies no.5, 2013.
http://www.khas.edu.tr/cms/cies/dosyalar/files/NeighbourhoodPolicyPaper(05)(1).pdf


• Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead
Daniel Hamilton, “A Transatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea?” in The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), 319-336.

Roberto Aliboni, “Globalization and the Wider Black Sea Area: Interaction with the European Union, Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 6, no. 2 (June 2006), pp. 157-168.
http://digilib.lib.unipi.gr/ket/bitstream/ket/764/1/Globalisation and the wider Black Sea area.pdf

Charles King, “The Wider Black Sea Region in the Twenty-First Century,” in The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008), 1-19.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, “Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov’s Article ‘Russian Foreign Policy and a New Quality of the Geopolitical Situation’ for Diplomatic Yearbook 2008,”
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/itogi/BC2150E49DAD6A04C325752E0036E93F

Mustafa Aydin and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, rapporteurs, 2020 Vision for the Black Sea Region: A Report by the Commission on the Black Sea (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, May 2010).
http://www.ctsp.vt.edu/Publications/data/A 2020 Vision for the Black Sea.pdf


DİĞER KAYNAKLAR

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DEĞERLENDİRME SİSTEMİ

Yarıyıl İçi ÇalışmalarıSayıKatkı Payı (%)
Katılım 14 30
Sunum/Jüri 1 30
Ara Sınavlar/Sözlü Sınavlar/Kısa Sınavlar 1 40
Total: 16 100


İŞ YÜKÜ HESAPLAMASI

EtkinliklerSayısıSüresi (saat)Toplam İş Yükü (saat)
Ders Saati14342
Sunum/Jüriye Hazırlık14040
Dersle İlgili Sınıf Dışı Etkinlikler14684
Ara Sınavlar/Sözlü Sınavlar/Kısa Sınavlar121.521.5
Toplam İş Yükü (saat):187.5


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