This undergraduate course is designed to explore the intimate relationships between music, society and politics across different societies, music genres and different historical periods of time. Particular focus will be placed upon 19th and 20th century socio-political developments in European societies and such musical genres as classical music, jazz, blues, Afro-beat, soul and different forms of Turkish and folk music across Europe. The issues to be covered throughout the course include, but are not limited to music and the age of Enlightenment in Europe; the role of music in the construction and expression of national identities in European and African societies; jazz, black liberation and civil rights movement; music as an instrument of political mobilisation and resistance; the Cold War and music diplomacy; music, migration and street musicians; music, westernisation and modernisation in Turkey. This course does not require any previous knowledge in ethnomusicology and any special musical skills. It will be relying on mostly English speaking journal articles, book chapters, album notes and a vast variety of audio-visual materials including documentaries and short videos.

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Here's a list of recommended reading materials: For the weekly plan and syllabus, please contact the Jean Monnet chair.

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- Frank Tenaille, Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Lawrence Hill Books, 2002.

- Ted Gioa, History of Jazz, Oxford University Press, 1997.

- Marissa J. Moorman, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola from 1945 to Recent Times, Ohio University Press, 2008. 

- Gail Holst,Road to Rembetika: Music of a Greek Subculture, Songs of Love, Sorrow and Hashish, Denis Harvey, 2006.

- Ray Pratt, Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music(Media & society series), Green wood Press, 1990.

- Lisa Davenport, Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era, University Press of Mississippi, 2009

- Penny von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Harvard University Press, 2006.

- Harry White and Michael Murphy, Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945, Cork University Press, 2001.

- David Rosenthal, Hard-bop Jazz and Black Music: 1955-1965, Oxford University Press, 1993.

- Toplumbilim, Müzik ve Kültürel Kimlik Özel Sayısı, Vol. 12 May 2001.

- Gary Stewart, Rumba On the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos, Verso Books, 2000.

- Frank Kofsky, John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1950s, Pathfinder, 2009.

- Timothy Rommen, Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music, University of California Press, 2011.

- Jonathan Pieslak, Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009.

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European Integration

This undergraduate course aims to provide undergraduate students with an understanding of:

o  the development, present state and future of the European Union;

o  theories to understand and explain European integration;

o  the working methods and interactions of its institutions within the decision-making process;

o  the scope of activities of the European Union, that is to say individual policies in the fields of economic, political, social and legal integration;

o  the role of the European Union in the wider world and its external relations,

o  the historical development of European integration and Turkish-EU relations,

o  the major issues and challenges of Turkey-EU relations including democratisation reforms, the Customs Union, security, energy and migration,

o  the debates both in Turkey and Europe on Turkey’s full membership to the EU.

 Here's a list of key reading materials. For the detailed syllabus, please contact the Jean Monnet chair.

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• Ian Bache, Stephen George and Simon Bulmer (2014), Politics in the European Union,Oxford: OUP.

• John McCormick (2017), Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction. The European Union Series. revised edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Neill Nugent, The Government and Politics of the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 

• Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez (2009), European Integration Theory, Oxford, OUP. 

• Senem Aydın-Düzgit & Nathalie Tocci (2015), Turkey and the European Union, Palgrave, Macmillan.

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Security and Migration in Europe

This post-graduate course is designed to provide students with an understanding of recent issues, challenges and institutions of the post-Cold War European security order with a particular emphasis on the nexus between migration and security. It examines both mainstream and critical approaches to security and explores how helpful they are to understand simultaneous, multifacetedand diverse challenges to peace and security in the European Union and in its wider neighbourhood. 

 

In this respect, after discussing the concepts of security and Europe, the course first presents a critical overview of the history of European security from World War II up to the present time. The course will then examine traditional and critical approaches to international security by particularly focusing on their analyses on the conventional and new risks and threats shaping the post-Cold War European security order. Having provided students with an evaluation of different theoretical approaches to European security,the course then applies these insights in order to better understand: 

1. the roles played by the crucial institutions of the contemporary European security order, most notably NATO and the EU, 

2. the potentials and limitations of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence policy, 

3. The EU’s efforts and instruments to manage external border security and to balance freedom, security and justice within its territory.

 

Subsequently, the course moves on to address the security/migration nexus as migration has gained increasing prevalence in the security agenda of states across Europe. It focuses on such issues as the intricate relationship between identity and security, counter-terrorism and emergency measures adopted by the EU countries, manifold implications of migration on the EU’s external and internal security, and the implications of Syrian civil war and other sources of instability in the MENA region for European security. The course finally examines the Turkey-EU security relations with a particular emphasis on the cooperation between the two in migration, counter terrorism and energy security issues.

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Here's a list of core reading. For more detailed information and the syllabus, please contact the Jean Monnet chair. 

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• Buzan, B. et al. (1998), Security: A New Framework for Analysis,Lynne Rienner.

• Biscop, S. and Whitman, R. (2013) The Routledge Handbook of European Security, Routledge.  

• Breuer, F. and Kurowska, X. (2011) (eds), Explaining European Security and Defence Policy: Theory in Action, Palgrave Macmillan. 

• Cottey, A. (2013) Security in 21st Century Europe, Palgrave.

• Duke, S. (2000), The Elusive Quest for European Security London: Macmillan.

• Gänzle S. and Sens, A. (eds) (2007) The Changing Politics of European Security: Europe Alone?(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

• Geddes, A. (2015) Governing migration from a distance: interactions between climate, migration, and security in the South Mediterranean, European Security, 24(3), pp. 473-490.

• Ginsberg, Roy H. (2012) The European Union in global security; The politics of impact(Basingstoke: Palgrave)

• Howorth, J (2014) Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan.

• Kaunert, C. and Zwolski, K. (2013) The European Union as a Global Security Actor: A Comprehensive Analysis beyond CFSP and JHA. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Kavalski, Emilian (2008) Extending the European Security Community; constructing peace in the Balkans (Basingstoke: Palgrave).

• Krause, Keith & Michael C. Williams (eds) (1997), Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases, UCL Press.

• Marsh, S. And Rees, W. (2012) The European Union in security of Europe: from Cold War to Terror War, Abingdon: Routledge.

• Merand, F (2008) European Defence Policy: Beyond the National States, Oxford University 

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• Merlingen, M. (2011) EU Security Policy. What it is? How it works? Why it matters?, Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

• Schroeder, Ursula C. (2011) The Organization of European Security: internal and external security in transition (Abingdon: Routledge)

• Sheehan, M. (2005), International Security: An Analytical Survey London: Lynne Rienner.

• Terriff, Terry, et al. (1999), Security Studies Today, Polity Press.

• Wagnsson, Charlotte, James A. Sperling and Jan Hallenberg (eds) (2009) European Security Governance: the European Union in a Westphalian world(Abingdon: Routledge)

• Zwolski, K. (2012) ‘The EU as an International Security Actor after Lisbon: Finally a Green Light for a Holistic Approach?’, Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 68-87.

• Special issue: Theorising the European Union as an International Security Provider: Actors, Processes, Outcomes and Impact, Global Society, 29(2), 2015. 

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