Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Political Science and International Relations | |||||
| Bachelor | Length of the Programme: 4 | Number of Credits: 240 | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF: Level 6 |
Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri
| School/Faculty/Institute | Faculty of Econ., Admin. and Social Sciences | ||||
| Course Code | POLS 328 | ||||
| Course Title in English | World Energy Politics | ||||
| Course Title in Turkish | World Energy Politics | ||||
| Language of Instruction | |||||
| Type of Course | Lecture | ||||
| Level of Course | Introductory | ||||
| Semester | Spring | ||||
| Contact Hours per Week |
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| Estimated Student Workload | 132 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 5 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | None | ||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | Only Undergraduate Students | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | To learn how politics and energy interrelate and how they are together shaping bilateral relations. | ||||
| Course Description | Coal was a central driver of industrialization, mechanization, globalization, and urbanization in the nineteenth century. Oil took a central role in the twentieth century and, along with natural gas, has had a profound effect on economic development and international politics. Securing access to abundant and affordable supplies of hydrocarbons has shaped the grand strategies of powers, including Britain, the United States, Japan, and now China, while states blessed with more hydrocarbons than they can consume such as the Gulf countries, Russia, and Venezuela to name a few, use their hydrocarbons to maximize rents and project power. Energy can spur states to cooperate on projects that offer mutual commercial benefit or to compete, whether it is producing countries for market share or consuming countries for supplies. Market forces, finance, policy, environmental concerns, and technology fluctuate, and further complicate the geopolitics and public policy of energy. This course will examine the interplay of energy security, politics, and policy, with energy security and its many definitions and circumstances being the starting point for every discussion. The course will focus on hydrocarbons, but renewable energies will receive some treatment. The instructor will frame each topic in its historical context, but contemporary events will constitute the bulk of the discussion. The course will also consider issues related to resource management as well as the role of China and the United States in shaping the international system through its energy policies. Power generation will not be covered in great detail, but general trends will be highlighted when applicable. | ||||
| Course Description in Turkish |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) Understand major geopolitical issues associated with energy. 2) Understand how states, markets, and the environment shape energy politics and policies. 3) Categorize information on energy for independent inquiry. 4) Analyze current dilemmas and uncertainties about energy and geopolitics, especially media that either overstate the importance of energy to politics or fail to include energy when discussing politics. |
| Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Adequate knowledge of political history necessary to comprehend and effectively evaluate contemporary Political Science and International Relations issues. | ||||
| 2) Understanding of the fundamental concepts that exist in the fields of social and behavioral sciences as well as the correlation between these concepts | ||||
| 3) Ability to analyze the fundamental theories in the field Political Science and International Relations and to assess their reflections into practice | ||||
| 4) Ability to critically discuss different aspects of theories and developments in Political Science and International Relations both individually and in the course of group work during classroom discussions. | ||||
| 5) Ability to conduct research independently, or with a team, about the developments taking place in the international arena, make foreign policy analyses, develop research-based conflict resolution models, and prepare comprehensive reports using computers and relevant software | ||||
| 6) Ability to take decisions as well as to implement these decisions by using the knowledge about the field and the skills that have been acquired during the undergraduate studies | ||||
| 7) Ability to recognize the relations between scientific thought and ethical behavior; pay attention to being tolerant and properly defend different ideas, ideologies and belief systems | ||||
| 8) Ability to work in international institutions and multicultural environments, with the help of the knowledge on different cultures, societies, political systems as well as linguistic skills acquired during the undergraduate studies | ||||
| 9) Ability to display language skills in English at minimum B2 level enough for debating with colleagues on issues of Political Science and International Relations, and also display language skills in a second foreign language at minimum A2 level enough for communicating in daily life | ||||
| 10) Ability to pursue lifelong learning as well as perform advanced/graduate studies in the field Political Science and International Relations and other social sciences disciplines in academic institutions at home and abroad |
Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Adequate knowledge of political history necessary to comprehend and effectively evaluate contemporary Political Science and International Relations issues. | H | Exam |
| 2) | Understanding of the fundamental concepts that exist in the fields of social and behavioral sciences as well as the correlation between these concepts | S | Presentation |
| 3) | Ability to analyze the fundamental theories in the field Political Science and International Relations and to assess their reflections into practice | H | Exam |
| 4) | Ability to critically discuss different aspects of theories and developments in Political Science and International Relations both individually and in the course of group work during classroom discussions. | N | |
| 5) | Ability to conduct research independently, or with a team, about the developments taking place in the international arena, make foreign policy analyses, develop research-based conflict resolution models, and prepare comprehensive reports using computers and relevant software | N | |
| 6) | Ability to take decisions as well as to implement these decisions by using the knowledge about the field and the skills that have been acquired during the undergraduate studies | S | Presentation |
| 7) | Ability to recognize the relations between scientific thought and ethical behavior; pay attention to being tolerant and properly defend different ideas, ideologies and belief systems | H | Exam |
| 8) | Ability to work in international institutions and multicultural environments, with the help of the knowledge on different cultures, societies, political systems as well as linguistic skills acquired during the undergraduate studies | S | Participation |
| 9) | Ability to display language skills in English at minimum B2 level enough for debating with colleagues on issues of Political Science and International Relations, and also display language skills in a second foreign language at minimum A2 level enough for communicating in daily life | H | Presentation |
| 10) | Ability to pursue lifelong learning as well as perform advanced/graduate studies in the field Political Science and International Relations and other social sciences disciplines in academic institutions at home and abroad | S | Presentation |
| Prepared by and Date | BEKEN SAATÇİOĞLU , January 2024 |
| Course Coordinator | BEKEN SAATÇİOĞLU |
| Semester | Spring |
| Name of Instructor |
Course Contents
| Week | Subject |
| 1) | Introductions, Overview of Energy Security |
| 2) | Chokepoints and Pipelines |
| 3) | The Oil Crises of the 1970s and 1980s; Volatility in the 2000s and 2010s |
| 4) | The United States and the Gulf |
| 5) | Saudi Arabia, Iran and OPEC |
| 6) | Resource Nationalism (Focus: Latin America) |
| 7) | Resource Governance |
| 8) | A Golden, Global Age of Gas? |
| 9) | Russia, Europe and Turkey |
| 10) | Iraq |
| 11) | North Africa and Mediterranean |
| 12) | Russia, Central Asia, and China |
| 13) | China, Asia, and Africa |
| 14) | Renewables, Sustainability, and the Arctic |
| 15) | Final Examination Period |
| 16) | Final Examination Period |
| Required/Recommended Readings | Dale, Spencer. “New Economics of Oil.” The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), October 2015, pp. 1-9, available online. (RQ) EIA, “World Oil Transit Chokepoints,” November 2014, available online. (RQ) O’Sullivan, Meghan. “The Entanglement of Energy, Grand Strategy, and International Security.” In The Handbook of Global Energy Policy (HGEP), pp. 30-43, available online. Pascual, Carlos. “The New Geopolitics of Energy.” Columbia Center of Global Energy Policy (CCGEP), September 2015, pp. 5-29, available online. (RC) Yergin, Daniel. “Energy Security and Markets.” In Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in Transition, Chapter 2, 69-85. Edited by David L. Goldwyn and Jan H. Kalicki. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. (RC) Stevens, Paul. “Transit Troubles: Pipelines as a Source of Conflict.” Chatham House, 2009, pp. 1-30, available online. (RQ) Dowling, Edward T. and Francis G. Hilton. ”Oil in the 1980s: An OECD Perspective.” In The Oil Market in the 1980s: A Decade of Decline, 71-87. Edited by Siamack Shojai and Bernard S. Katz. Praeger, 1992. (RC) Heffner III, Robert A. “The United States of Gas: Why the Shale Revolution Could Have Happened Only in America,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2014, pp. 9-14. (RQ) McNally, Robert. “Welcome Back to Boom–Bust Oil Prices,” CCGEP, Dec. 17 2015. (Q)Painter, David S. “Oil and Geopolitics in the 1970s: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War.” Historical Social Research 39 (2014): 186-208. (RQ) Yergin, Daniel. “The Demand Shock,” in The Quest, Chapter 8. (RQ) Cordesman, Anthony H. “American Strategy and US ‘Energy Independence’” Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 21 October 2013, pp. 1-12, available online. (RQ) Glaser, Charles L. “How Oil Influences U.S. National Security,” International Security, Fall 2013, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 112-146. (RC) Miller, Paul D. “The Fading Arab Oil Empire.” The National Interest. July/August 2012, pp. 38-43, available online. (RQ) Fattouh, Bassam and Sen, Anupama. “Saudi Arabia Oil Policy: More than Meets the Eye?,” The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, June 2015, available online. Halff, Antoine. “OPEC’s policy challenge in the age of shale oil,” CCGEP, Dec. 3, 2015. (RQ) Six and Van Geuns, “The Iraqi Oil Surge in a New Energy Landscape,” available online. Yergin, Daniel. “OPEC’s Imperium,” in The Prize, Chapter 31, pp. 633-652. (RQ) Lajous, Adrian. “Mexican Oil Reform: The First Two Bidding Rounds, Farmouts, and Constractual Conversions in a Lower Oil Price Environment.” Columbia Center of Global Energy Policy, October 2015, 4-18, available online. (RC) Luciani, Giacomo. “Corporations vs. States in the Shaping of Global Oil Regimes.” In Global Resources: Conflict and Cooperation, 119-39. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (RQ) Victor, David; Hults, David R.; and Thurber, Mark C. “Major Conclusions and Implications for the Future of the Oil Industry.” In Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply, 887-928. Edited by David G. Victor, David R. Hults, and Mark Thurber. Cambridge University Press, 2012. (RC) Bauer, Andrew and Juan Carlos Quiroz. “Resource Governance.” In HGEP, pp. 244-264. (RQ) Segal, Paul. “How to Spend It: Resource Wealth and the Distribution of Resources Rents.” OIES, May 2012, pp. 1-23, available online. (RQ) Shah M. Tarzi and Nathan Schackow, "Oil And Political Freedom In Third World Petro States: Do Oil Prices and Dependence On Petroleum Exports Foster Authoritarianism?" Journal Of Third World Studies 29, no. 2 (Fall 2012), pp. 231-250. (RC) Cragg, Chris. “History of the Gas Industry.” In Global Resources: Conflict and Cooperation, 59-76. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (RC) Fattouh, Bassam; Rogers, Howard V.; and Stewart, Peter. “The US Shale Gas Revolution and its Impact on Qatar’s Position in Gas Markets.” CCGEP, March 2015, pp. 6-38, available online. (RQ) Hulbert, Matthew and Goldthau, Andreas. “Natural Gas Going Global? Potential and Pitfalls.” In HGEP, 98-111. (RQ) Bhalla, Reva. “Turkey’s Time Has Come.” Stratfor, 8 December 2015, available online. (RQ) Franza, Luca. “From South Stream to Turk Stream: Prospects for Rerouting Options and Flows of Russian Gas to Parts of Europe and Turkey.” CIEP Paper, Number 5, 2015, pp. 9- 55, available online. (RQ) Gaidar, Yegor. “The Soviet Collapse: Grain and Oil,” Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2007, 1-8, available online. (RC) Henderson, James and Mitrova, Tatiana. “The Political and Commercial Dynamics of Russia’s Gas Export Strategy,” OIES Paper NG 102, September 2015, available online. (RQ) Six, Sammy. “Russia’s Oil Export Strategy: Two Markets, Two Faces.” CIEP, 2015, available online. (RQ) Bowlus, John. “Pipeline Partners: Expanding and Securing Iraq’s Future Oil Exports,” Global Relations Forum, November 2015, 2-15, available online. (RQ) Six, Sammy and Van Geuns, Lucia. “The Iraqi Oil Surge in a New Energy Landscape,” Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP) Paper, Number 2, 2014, pp. 23-34, available online. (RQ) Darbouche, Hakim; El-Katiri, Laura; and Fattouh, Bassam. “East Mediterranean Gas: what kind of a game-changer?” OIES, December 2012, available online. (RQ) El-Katiri, Laura; Fattouh, Bassam; and Mallinson, Richard. “The Arab Uprisings and MENA Political Instability: Implications for Oil & Gas Markets,” OIES, March 2014, available online. (RQ) EIA, “China,” May 2015. (RQ) Brookings Institution, “A Trilateral Dialogue on the United States, Africa and China,” 2013, (RQ) pp. 4, 52-68, available online. Henderson, James and Mitrova, Tatiana. “The Political and Commercial Dynamics of Russia’s Gas Export Strategy,” OIES Paper NG 102, September 2015, available online. (RQ) Six, “Russia’s Oil Export Strategy: Two Markets, Two Faces,” available online. (RQ) EIA, “China,” May 2015. (RQ) Gao, Fan. “Will There Be a Shale Gas Revolution in China by 2020?” OIES, April 2012, pp. 1-6, 16-41, available online. (RQ) Li, Xin. “Decarbonizing China’s power system with wind power: the past and the future,” OIES, January 2015, pp. 1-13, available online. (RC) Yergin, Daniel. “Japan’s Road to War,” in The Prize, Chapter 16, pp. 305-327. (RC) Zhenxing, Luo. “Perspectives on China-Africa Oil Ties,” Brookings Institution, May 2013, pp. 2-12, available online. (RQ) Zandoli, Blaise. “Oil in the Hourglass: The Energy-Conflict Nexus in the South China Sea.” (RQ) Journal of Energy Security, April 2014, pp. available online. Bradshaw, Michael. “Conclusions.” In Global Energy Dilemma: Economic Security, Globalization, and Climate Change, 181-93. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. (RQ). Dreyer, Iana. “Renewables: do they matter for foreign policy?” European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2013, 1-4, available online. (RQ) McNeill, J.R. “Prologue: Peculiarities of a Prodigal Century.” In Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, 3-17. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. (RC) Noreng, Oystein. “Global Resource Scramble and New Energy Frontiers,” in HGEP, Chapter 10, pp. 159-173. (RC) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Instructional strategy and expectations for both students and instructional staff that follow from this. Student work modes (independently and/or in teams). Any work with the outside community – geographic or industry sector. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Homework and Projects | None | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Laboratory Work | None | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Computer Use | None | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Activities | None | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assessment Methods |
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| Course Administration |
beken.saatcioglu@mef.edu.tr 02123953678 Regular attendance and participation in class discussion. Two Power Point presentations (4-5 slides in length) that answer the discussion question. These should be emailed to the instructor before the class begins and presented in class. These must draw on class readings, but outside sources can be used to augment them. Final, in-class, open-book, open-note, open-presentation, “internet-off” exam. More details about the exam will be discussed in class. Academic dishonesty and plagiarism: YÖK Disciplinary Regulation. |
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ECTS Student Workload Estimation
| Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
| No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
| Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 98 | ||
| Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |||
| Midterm(s) | 1 | 8 | 2 | 10 | |||
| Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 2 | 12 | |||
| Total Workload | 132 | ||||||
| Total Workload/25 | 5.3 | ||||||
| ECTS | 5 | ||||||