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Language of Instruction
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English
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Level of Course Unit
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Bachelor's Degree
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Department / Program
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Type of Program
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Formal Education
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Type of Course Unit
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Elective
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Course Delivery Method
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Face To Face
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Objectives of the Course
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The aim of this course is to examine the causes, development processes, and outcomes of significant revolutions in world history. Students will analyze revolutions that took place in different regions and periods, gaining an understanding of how social, economic, and political changes occurred and discussing the long-term impacts of these revolutions on the world.
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Course Content
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The modern world has been partly produced by the revolutionary changes that have turned the social life of human beings upside down when they happened. Although the course of world history has been largely shaped by the docile flow of social relations, sometimes the social conflicts intensified, history’s ebb and flows have become much more violent and turned into several tsunamis. And when such violent tides have hit the mainland, the world did never stay same: the revolutions truly changed the course of river and thus they have referred to clear ruptures from their preceding periods. Having such a vision, this course will explore the great turning points of modern history and analyze revolutions that took place between 17th and 20st centuries in different regions.
Emphasizing mainly the revolutionary processes and successful revolutions, this course will analyze these violent historical ruptures from the lens of dialectic relations between their structural causes and human interactions which benefit from those structural openings and/or impede them. Thereby, I’ll be concentrating on structural causes of the revolutions in this course: class structures and struggles and related state formations and capacity that make political culture of oppositions to impose its demands from authorities. Then, I’ll be discussing how revolutionary ideologies inspire people to join in their cause and/or how different social and political groups coalesced to overthrow the existing regimes. Thirdly, I’ll examine the triggering causes that create revolutionary situations: wars, economic downturns, etc. Fourthly, I’ll touch on the permissive world context that provides important opportunities for the revolutionary groups to make revolution and/or sustain their newly founded regime. And lastly, I’ll be analyzing how victorious groups have consolidated their power, imposed its revolutionary vision on the rest of society and influenced the world in which we live.
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Course Methods and Techniques
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Lectures and historical discussions
Documentaries and analysis of historical texts
Group discussions and case studies
Student presentations on revolutions
Examination of key revolutionary documents and manifestos
In-depth analyses using historical sources and quotes
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Prerequisites and co-requisities
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None
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Course Coordinator
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None
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Name of Lecturers
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Asist Prof.Dr. MEHMET CELİL ÇELEBİ ozgur.balkilic@agu.edu.tr
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Assistants
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None
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Work Placement(s)
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No
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Recommended or Required Reading
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