Academic Catalog

IR509 CONTEMPORARY ASIAN INTERN.POLITICS

Course Code: 3140509
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: International Relations
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Once in several years.

Course Content

This course essentially aims to analyze the foreign policies of the big powers in Asia, including the People's Republic of China, Russia, Japan and the USA. Fundamental changes resulting from shifts in the international system from bipolarity to multipolarity and from multipolarity to detente and the end of the cold war will be the focus of the course.