Academic Catalog

PSIR502 COMPARATIVE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

Course Code:	3540502
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Political Science And International Relations
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Masters
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. ZÜLKÜF AYDIN
Offered Semester:	Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course surveys the problematiques of `development` and `modernization` in comparative politics; explore the emergence of the institutions and structures of capitalist modernity in a global comparative context, as well as the subsequent efforts to achieve/impose late-development; inter-disciplinary framework in order to avoid Eurocentrist biases of conventional comparative political analysis, such as a pre-determined division between East and West, North and South or `First World` and `Third World`.