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23 Şubat 2014 Pazar

Alman Kladderadatsch Dergisi'nden bir karikatür.

6 Şubat 2014 Perşembe

The day of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassinated.It started to WWI

31 Ocak 2014 Cuma

ABSOLUTISM IN EUROPE (MY NOTES)

Components of absolutism:

1. Ambitious dynasty

2. Privileged but loyal nobles

3. A peasantry devoid of rights dominated by nobles

4. Emergence of a standing army: war is the main function and expense of the state even during peacetime.

CONTRAST WITH:

1. Britain

2. Netherlands

Countries with absolute monarchies:

1. France (Bourbons, Louis XIV)

2. Austria (Habsbourgs)

3. Prussia (Hohenzollerns, Frederick William I)

4. Sweden (Charles XI and XII)

5. Russia (Romanovs, Peter the Great)

Patterns of absolutism:

1. Role: Benevolent but strict father, obedient subjects

2. Need to raise money for the military

3. Alliance between the crown and the nobles

4. Peasants losing their rights

5. Cities losing autonomy and tax exemptions, mayors became civil servants who bought the title, government officials became residents

6. Secularization of domestic politics and international relations:

a. Gallican Church in France. Church appointments by the king, Ending the inquisition, reduced church authority over marriages, control censorship, establishing state supervision over education

b. 1716 – Peter made Russian clergy to take an oath that they would not interfere with state affairs. He abolished patriarchy, Westernized attire and many details of daily life.

c. war for state reasons, not for religious reasons.

7. Merging of the state with the absolute ruler: I am the state.

8. Symbolism (uniforms, ceremonies- elaborate pageantry), architecture, art, city planning (boulevards, geometric cities).

9. Persecution of religious minorities (heresy) (Hugenouts, Jansenists)

10. Patronage system

How do they fill state coffers?

1. Tax more efficiently (rise of bureaucracy)

2. Sell honors, titles and hereditary offices (France)

3. Sell royal lands

4. Sell monopolies

5. Tariffs on imports

6. Borrow from financiers

Limits of Monarchic Power

Local powers and interests

Finances

INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION

Balance of Power (particularly important player- England)

FRANCE

Louis 14th – Versailles, more than 10,000 nobles: eat, drinks, hunt, chase women, gamble.

Fronde

Elaborate etiquette, fashion

Conde – prince supressed the Fronde.

Regency

Mazarin

Parlement

Nobles of robe

Nobles of sword

Mercantalism –East India Company –fail

PRUSSIA

Grew with the treaty of Westphalia

Frederick III established himself as the king: Frederick I

Frederick William I:

a. Sergeant King: turned palacae into military training center

b. abandoned luxury tailors, only uniforms

c. firstsystem of military reserves in Europe.

Junkers

Kept privileges in exchange for service to the monarch:

a. Own land, evict peasants, free from taxation

b. the right to export grains without tolls, duties, taxes.

c. Seniorial justice over their peasants

Serfdom

Bourgeoise had no power.!!!

Birth of modern bureaucracy

RUSSIA

Ivan the Terrible, dies in 1584

Time of Troubles

Peter the Great (ruled 1682-1725)

Muscovy: Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, Crimean Tartars

Boyars

Chronic shortage of rural labor

1649: official serfdom

Old believers

Westernization: ship-making, clothing, etiquette, architecture (St. Petersbourg)

Abolished patriarchate

Two oaths in civil service: one to him, one to state – distinguishes!

Russia lacked natural resources and a big merchant class

St. Petersbourg

9 Ocak 2014 Perşembe

FINAL UPDATE

YOU CAN TURN IN YOUR PAPERS AT MIDNIGHT!

PLEASE NOTIFY ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

8 Ocak 2014 Çarşamba

FINAL EXAM

FALL 2013

IR 201

Political History I

Aysuda Kölemen

FINAL EXAM

EXAM RULES

Please answer the essay question assigned to you below. You CANNOT CHOOSE essays. You can only write the assigned essay and the bonus short answer question. Bonus question is optional.

Please email your exam to aysuda.kolemen@kemerburgaz.edu.tr by 20:00 today (January 9, 2013). You will lose 5 points for every 20 minutes that you are late.

You can use any WRITTEN source. Please be warned that if you use unreliable sources, your answers may contain incorrect information and you may lose points. Choose your sources wisely.

You are not allowed to work in teams. You MUST answer the questions ON YOUR OWN. Collaboration will be considered cheating.

Cheating – including plagiarism - will be severely penalized.

If you use sources other than the course reader and lecture notes, you have to add references.

Your essays should be detailed, and MINIMUM 1000 WORDS long for each question.

You will have to reorganize the information we covered in the course, and SYNTHESIZE different topics and create a thematic essay. Simply recounting events will result in a poor grade.

Please refer to all the major events and actors in your essays. You are responsible for everything covered in class and the reader.

I recommend that you prepare an outline for each question before you start writing it

BONUS SHORT ANSWER QUESTION (10 POINTS)

How did Great Britain influence China and India as a colonizing power? Please write at least one paragraph for China and one paragraph for India.

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GROUP 1

Adnan Çetinkaya
Batuhan Tüfekçi

Gökhan Özcan

Hande Ermiş

Hande Şahin

Sultan Kaya

Tuğba Dinçer

Yusuf Emre Iğnak

Zafer Kaya

ESSAY QUESTION FOR GROUP 1 (100 points)

Please trace Prussian/German history between the Treaty of Westphalia and World War I by focusing on all the themes and events we covered during the semester. How did the developments in Germany during this period influence other major European powers? How did the events in other major European powers influence Germany? Please explain in detail.

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GROUP 2 Aybüke Kamış Cansu Demirhan Devrim Domaç Gülay Şen İsmail Siad Merve İnanç Murat Can Kaya Talin Vural ESSAY QUESTION FOR GROUP 2 (100 points) Please trace French history between the Treaty of Westphalia and World War I by focusing on the topics and events we covered during the semester. How did the developments in France during this period influence other major European powers? How did the events in other major European powers influence France? How did French imperialism affect parts of Asia and Africa that France had colonized? Please explain in detail. ***** GROUP 3 Ali Akman Cem Gül Deniz Öz Gözde Yılmaz Mete Yılmaz Muhammet Yöndem Safa Çiçek Sevde Gürakın Melis Enderer ESSAY QUESTION FOR GROUP 3 (100 points)** How are the two revolutions that shaped the 19th century–the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution–similar to and different from each other? Describe these revolutions shortly. Discuss their influence on the economy, domestic politics and international politics as well as the military strategies and technologies of European powers in the 19th century in detail. How did they contribute to the spread of European imperialism and the outbreak of World War I?

7 Ocak 2014 Salı

Lecture Outlines

It's that time of the year. Finals are here.

Here are the lecture outlines. Please remember that these are ONLY outlines. They are summaries of summaries. An answer that only repeats these outlines will not receive ANY points in the final take-home exam. You need to write long essays with detailed analysis and description for your final exam:

The French Revolution

The Long 19th Century

World War I

I wish you the best of luck! :)

Guul ayaan kuu rajaynayaa!

Aysuda

3 Ocak 2014 Cuma

The World's Most Beautiful University Library

http://akademikperspektif.com/2011/12/23/dunyanin-en-guzel-15-universite-kutuphanesi/

23 Aralık 2013 Pazartesi

Germany's Middle East policy before and after Arab Spring

http://akademikperspektif.com/2013/12/22/almanyanin-arap-bahari-oncesi-ve-sonrasi-ortadogu-politikalari/

13 Aralık 2013 Cuma

TERM PAPER GUIDELINES

TERM PAPER GUIDELINES

FORMAT
Minimum number of pages: 5
Maximum number of pages: There is no maximum page number, but try not to exceed 7 pages too much.
Font: Times New Roman, 12
Citation format: APA
Sources: I recommend that you use at least 10 sources. Wikipedia is not accepted.

PLEASE
Write your student number on the front page.
Do NOT write your name!
Do NOT include a cover page!

CONTENT
Background: (1-2 pages)
Summarize historical the background of the event.

Explanation (2-4 pages)
a. Causes: (1-2) What were the local and global factors caused this event? . Include at least two different reasons.
b. Consequences: (1-2 pages)What were the consequences of this event for the countr(ies) involved? Were there worldwide consequences. Include at least two different consequences.

Conclusion (1-2 pages)
What is your opinion on the causes and consequences of this event?

Term Paper Topics

Hello,

Here are your topics. If you did not choose a topic, I assigned you one. If you want to change it, please let me know latest by Monday. Good luck!

	Term Paper Topics
ADNAN ÇETİNKAYA	French Invasion of Russia (1812)
ALİ AKMAN	1859-1869, Construction of the Suez Canal
AYBÜKE BURCU KAMIŞ	Establishment of the League of Nations-1919
BATUHAN TÜFEKCİ	The Holocaust
CANSU DEMİRHAN	1944-D Day
CEM GÜL	Spanish Civil War
DENİZ ÖZ	The Russian Revolution
DEVRİM DOMAÇ	Nazi Invasion of Poland
GÖKHAN ÖZCAN	Influence of the French Revolution on the Ottoman Empire
GÖZDE YILDIZ	1882: The British Invasion and Construction of Egypt
GÜLAY ŞEN	Establishment of the Anglican Church
HANDE ERMİŞ	Treaty of Versailles (1919)
HANDE HANDAN ŞAHİN	Greek War of Inpedendence
ISMAIL AHMED SIAD	Colonialization of Africa
MELİS HAZAL ENDERER	Election of the Nazi Party in Germany (1933)
METE ONUR YILMAZ	Mao Zedong's Long March
MUHAMMET YÖNDEM	Safavid Secterian Policy
MURAT CAN KAYA	1853-1856: Crimean War
SAFA ÇİÇEK	World War I
SEVDE NUR GÜRAKIN	1941-German invasion of Russia
SULTAN KAYA	American Revolution
ŞÜKRİYE MERVE İNANÇ	1929-Wall Street Crash of 1939 (the Great Depression)
TALİN VURAL	1932-1933 The Great Famine of the Ukraine
TUĞBA DİNÇLER	American Civil War
YUSUF EMRE IĞNAK	Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points Speech
ZAFER KAYA	1905: Russo-Japanese War

11 Aralık 2013 Çarşamba

What you gonna be in the future?

What you gonna be when you graduated from international relations? You can read this new.

http://akademikperspektif.com/2012/08/28/uluslararasi-iliskiler-bolumu-mezunlari-ne-is-yapar/

9 Aralık 2013 Pazartesi

15 Strange (but True) Facts about Napoleon Bonaparte

• He penned a romance novel titled Clisson et Eugenie, which was a thinly veiled autobiography about his relationship with Desiree Clary.

• While some speculated that Napoleon was poisoned, later research found that the high level of arsenic in his system was the result of lifelong exposure to household products containing arsenic, such as dyes and glues.

• Often credited with originating the phrase “a picture is worth 1,000 words,” what Napoleon actually said, as quoted in L’Arche de Noé, was: “A good sketch is better than a long speech.”

• Napoleon wanted to be buried on the banks of the Seine, but when his remains were returned to France in 1840, he was interred with other French military leaders in Les Invalides in Paris.

• Some speculate that Napoleon had a photographic memory and could instantly recall vast amounts of information, such as troop numbers and map details.

• Napoleon was a battlefield genius. He began his military career as an artillery commander and was an expert on military technology. He was an innovator in his development of the visual (signal or semaphore) telegraph for long-distance communication, but during the Napoleonic wars the British were more advanced than the French in some military devices, such as explosive rockets.

• Despite being characterised as short at 1.67 metres tall, Napoleon may have been slightly taller than the average European at the time he lived.

• There’s no secret behind the hand-in-waistcoat pose associated with Napoleon. It was a common pose used by the period’s painters, including Jacques-Louis David, who created most famous painting of the emperor in 1812.

• Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, and later, Joséphine’s daughter, Hortense, married Napoleon’s brother Louis.

• While on a campaign in Egypt, Napoleon learned that Joséphine was having an affair and wrote a distraught letter to his brother. The letter was intercepted by the British and published in newspapers, causing Napoleon great embarrassment.

• After divorcing Joséphine because she couldn’t bear him heirs, Napoleon married Marie Louise, the archduchess of Austria. The couple had one son, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles, who ruled France for two weeks in 1814.

• Napoleon jailed 13 Catholic cardinals for not attending his second marriage. And Napoleon’s officers kidnapped Pope Pius VII and held him captive for five years.

• Once Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena, his wife, Marie Louise, never saw him again.

• Napoleon had at least one illegitimate son, Charles Léon (1806–1881) by Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne.

• The former Emperor, who gave the country its Napoleonic Code, is still much revered – in a way. It’s illegal for anyone to name a pig

Napoleon in France.

http://www.readersdigest.com.au/15-facts-napoleon-bonaparte#sthash.omJXjfvn.dpuf