GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Political Science and International Relations

Political Science and International Relations

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PHD PROGRAM

Academic Unit: Department of Political Science and International Relations

Program Objectives: In accordance with the integrated nature of human and social sciences, the program provides its students with the proper formation to conduct original, critical, and comparative researches on social and political theories and issues to train qualified researches and scholars. For this aim, the program offers a wide-ranging curriculum, including courses on Social and Political Theory, Turkish Politics, Global Politics, Comparative Politics, and Area Studies. The courses are conducted in the form of seminars, focused on examining current scholarly discussions

The program encourages PhD students to determine their own research topics, based on their own areas of interest and knowledge. By allowing a wide sphere of freedom with regards to academic supervision, courses, research facilities and thesis research, the program allows them to develop their own academic identities. Students who complete the program can work as researchers, experts and consultants at national and global scale private and public institutions.

Medium of Instruction: Turkish

International Student Quotas: International student quotas are announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Admissions Calendar: Admissions calendar is announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Application Link: https://lisansustu.yildiz.edu.tr/sbe/en/ (Applicants are advised to check the academic calendar first and send their applications only during the application period.)

Admission Requirements: Admissions requirements announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Who can apply?

In-Field Quotas	MA degree holders of Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Political Science and Public Administration, International Relations and Public Administration programs should apply to in-field applicant quotas.
Out-of-Field Quotas	Any applicant who is not a graduate of the programs listed above can apply to out-field applicant quotas.

Compulsory Courses:

Code	Course Title in Turkish	Course Title in English	Course Type	Number of Credits
SBU6101	İktidar ve Devlet Kuramları	Theories of Power and State	Required by the department	3
SBU6107	Türk Dış Politikası İncelemeleri	Turkish Foreign Policy	Required by the department	3
SBU5004	Araştırma Yöntemleri Bilimsel Etik	Research Methods and Scientific Ethics	Required by the Council of Higher Education	2
SBU6001	Seminer	Seminar	Required by the Council of Higher Education	0

Elective Courses:

Code	Course Title in Turkish	Course Title in English	Number of Credits
SBU6100	Rusya: Tarih, Siyaset ve Toplum	Russia: History, Politics and Society	3
SBU6102	Yeniden Yapılandırılan Ortadoğu	Restructuring the Middle East	3
SBU6912	Siyaset Teorisi Semineri	Political Theory Seminar	3
SBU6103	İktidar ve Hukuk	Political Power and Rule of Law	3
SBU6104	Milliyetçilik ve Kuramlar	Nationalism and Theories	3
SBU6105	Küreselleşen Dünyada İnsan	Human Being in the Globalized World	3
SBU6106	Türk Dış Politikasında Kriz Yönetimi ve Zorlayıcı Diplomasi	Crisis Management And Coercive Diplomacy In Turkish Foreign Policy	3
SBU6108	Karşılaştırmalı Perspektiften Devlet Oluşumu	State Formation In A Comparative Perspective	3
SBU6109	Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Ortadoğu	Middle East in the Post-Cold War Period	3
SBU6110	Türkiye Siyaseti Semineri	Seminar: Turkish Politics	3
SBU6111	Demokrasi-Ulusçuluk-Azınlıklar	Democracy-Nationalism-Minorities	3
SBU6112	Türkiye'de Tarih Yazımı	Historiography in Turkey	3
SBU6113	Modern Balkan Tarihi	Modern Balkan History	3
SBU6114	Türk Amerikan İlişkileri	Turkish-American Relations	3

Academic Staff:

Prof. Dr. Esra DANACIOĞLU
Prof. Dr. Elçin MACAR
Prof. Dr. Cengiz ÇAĞLA
Prof. Dr. Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU
Prof. Dr. Ester RUBEN
Prof. Dr. Gülnur AYBET
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Akif OKUR
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem NAS
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fuat AKSU
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslı DALDAL
Asst. Prof. Dr. Laçin İdil ÖZTIĞ
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fulya MEMİŞOĞLU
Res. Asst. Dr. Ahmet CONKER
Lect. Dr. Türkan Ayda GÜRKAN
Res. Asst. Yetkin BAŞKAVAK
Res. Asst. Elif BALİ
Res. Asst. Elisabeth Elif PEKER
Res. Asst. Kahraman SÜVARİ
Res. Asst. Abdurrahman Gümüş

Graduation Requirements:

In order to graduate from this program;

Students who were admitted to the PhD program with an MA degree are required;
- to take at least 7 courses (21 local credits/ 240 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
- to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
- to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
- to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
- to comply with the publication requirement,
- to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully,

Students who were admitted to the PhD program with a BA degree are required;
- to take at least 14 courses (42 local credits/ 300 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
- to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
- to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
- to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
- to comply with the publication requirement,
- to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully.

PhD Publication Requirement: PhD students are required to make both of the following publications about their thesis in cooperation with their thesis supervisors:

a) An oral presentation at a national/ international refereed academic congress

b) At least one article published or accepted for publication at a national/ international refereed academic journal

Location: Davutpaşa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey

Admissions Contact:

	E-mail Address	Website
Graduate School of Social Sciences	gsss@yildiz.edu.tr, sbemdr@yildiz.edu.tr	http://sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/

Department Contact:

Name- Surname	E-mail Address	Phone Number
Lect. Dr. Türkan Ayda Gürkan	ayda722@gmail.com	+90 212 383 67 31