School of Politics 22 Evaluation Process

Students who participated in the School of Politics 22 certificate program, organized by the Bahçeşehir University International Leadership Application and Research Center and the School of Government and Leadership in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Institute between 5 February and 24 April 2022, must fulfill a 75% session-based attendance requirement in order to be eligible for a certificate of participation. To be eligible for the program's e-Government (e-Devlet) recognized certificate, candidates will also be subject to an evaluation at the end of the program, in addition to meeting the 75% attendance criterion.

Candidates who complete and submit a written assignment on one of the topics covered during the program within the specified period and in accordance with the specified criteria will be eligible for the certificate, provided that their assignments successfully pass the review and evaluation of the plagiarism and academic evaluation committee. The list of candidates eligible for the certificate will be announced on the website within 15 working days following the assignment submission deadline. There are no re-evaluation processes such as make-ups, corrections or exams for the certificates.

 

Assignment Topics

Candidates will choose any of the following topics covered during the School of Politics 22.

 

A Panorama of the Global Political System

Türkiye's Place and Importance in the Global System

Instruments of the Global System: International Organizations and Missions

Democracy and Human Rights at the Global Level

The Emergence of the State Apparatus and Defining the Concept of Power

Examining Political Phenomena from Philosophical, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives

Debates on Hegemony (Roman, Ottoman, British and American Pax)

The Evolution of Political Ideologies

Political Economy

The Transformation of Economic Systems from Past to Present

Economic Crises in the Age of Globalization

Intelligence Organizations and Their Activities

The Relationship Between Religion and Politics

The Relationship Between the Military and Politics

Fundamental Paradigms of Security

Securitization Theory (Copenhagen School)

The Transformation of the Concept of Security

Relations with the EU

Relations with the Balkan States

The Caucasus in Turkish Foreign Policy

Special Session on the Russia-Ukraine War

Turkish-Russian Relations

The Key Factors Shaping US Foreign Policy in Light of Political Culture and the Political System

Türkiye-US Relations

Relations Among NATO Allies After 9/11 and the Crisis of Trust

Türkiye-Middle East Relations from History to the Present

Turkish-Iranian Relations

Türkiye's Africa Opening

Türkiye-Israel Relations

The Rising New Power: Pacific Economies and the Rising Star China

Latin America, Development and Democracy: Myths and Realities

India and South Asia

The Climate Crisis

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics from the Perspective of the Military Bureaucracy

Maritime Rivalry from Past to Present from the Perspective of Academics

Kazakhstan-Türkiye Relations

The Armenian Question

Türkiye-Greece Relations from Past to Present

Processing Big Data as a New Policy-Making Tool

The Technological Dimension of Interstate Rivalry: The Surveillance Society

New Economic Models and Tools in the Digital Age

The Fact-Value Distinction in the Post-Truth Era

New Political Trends: Populism

Political Communication, Perception Management and Mass Psychology

 

Assignment Preparation Criteria

• The assignment must be prepared in Word file format,
• with a 14-point title and 12-point text, single-spaced,
• in Times New Roman font,
• justified,
• and consisting of a minimum of 1500 and a maximum of 3000 words.
• Candidates must name their file as "name surname-Turkish ID number".
• The subject line of the assignment e-mail must read "Siyaset Okulu 22 Ödev Teslimi" (School of Politics 22 Assignment Submission).

 

Evaluation Process

• Assignments in any format other than Word will not be accepted under any circumstances.
• Assignments submitted after the specified date and time will not be accepted for any excuse or reason.
• Assignments will undergo a preliminary digital review with plagiarism software, and those exceeding a 10% similarity rate will be directly invalidated, with no corrections allowed.
• The assignments of candidates who pass the preliminary review will be evaluated by the academic evaluation committee and graded as pass/fail, and the results will be announced within the specified period.

 

Important Information on Assignment Submission

Assignment submission address: hloeditor@rc.bau.edu.tr

Assignment submission dates: Monday, 25 April 2022, 10:00 - Friday, 6 May 2022, 17:00

Announcement of results: 30 May 2022, 17:00