Academic Catalog

IR602 HISTORY, POL. & INTER. RELATIONS

Course Code: 3140602
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: International Relations
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. AHMET NURÝ YURDUSEV
Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The basic purpose of this graduate seminar is to give students a general understanding of philosophy of history and to explore its possible implications for political theory and the study of international relations. The idea of history and its relations with human knowledge i.e. the problem of theory and history, is the first issue to be dealt with. Then, the relations between history, political theory and the study of international relations are to be analyzed and the basic problems and issues are to be considered.