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| IR5204 | @ | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. İsmail KÖSE | | Co-Lecturer | Assist. Prof. Emre Yürük | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | With this course, it is firstly aimed to handle theoretical discussions on sea law. Students also were expected to learn sea law, sample cases and analysis through a theoretical understanding. Hot discussions of Sea Law in the context of international relations will be discussed meanwhile and rule making process will be tackled with. Expected evaluation and teaching goals are as follows:
? Explaining Sea Law analysis process and measurement of rule making process
? Building cause effect relations among domestic and international factors affecting development of Sea Law
? Having the ability of generating new understanding on Sea Law
? While analyzing the codifying methods of Sea Law, historical experiences also will be analyzed.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Explaining Sea Law analysis process and measurement of rule making process
| 1 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | Building cause effect relations among domestic and international factors affecting development of Sea Law
| 1 | 1, | | PO - 3 : | Having the ability of generating new understanding on Sea Law
| 1 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | While analyzing the codifying methods of Sea | 1 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Akin human body 2/3 of the world mass is water. Thus, sea navigation was/is vital for the development of humankind. Desires to control world waters paved the way of several wars throughout history. Throughout known historical span waters were/are the indispensable settlement areas. It is known that humankind met with seas while picking salt and searching for food. Humankind after his/her initial meeting with seas firstly tried to discover nearby coasts. Soon after vessels convenient for high sea navigation were built and sea commerce and for hegemony over seas and nearby coasts soon after sea battles started. Wonder, commercial interests, desires to see new places and discover new lands were the basic reasons leading first sea navigation. Sea law started to develop in the 16th century. It was Muhammed Ibni Şeybani in the 8th centuries argued that seas were/are the common heritage of humankind. About eight hundred years after Hugo Grotius developed that mare liberum idea.
UN Convention on the Law of Sea (UNCLOS) opened signatory on 1982 and came into force in 1994. Although Turkey is not signatory to UNCLOS all national acquis have been regulated accordingly. By UNCLOS numerous rules have been put in use. Most importantly by UNCLOS sea law has been codified and universalized.
Under above mentioned context, beginning from the beginning of Sea Law, the process will be analyzed together with historical developments. Cases and historical facts also will be put in use during the class and a theoretical framework will be conceptualized.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Course plan, methodology and introduction | | | Week 2 | Historical Development of Int. Law | | | Week 3 | The Law of the Treaties | | | Week 4 | Amendment and Modification of Treaties | | | Week 5 | The Law of Sea | | | Week 6 | Air and Space Law | | | Week 7 | The Use of Force | | | Week 8 | - The Regulation of Armed Conflict | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | - Environmental Protection | | | Week 11 | - Case 1: Ottoman Fleet (Kate Fleet article) | | | Week 12 | - Case II: Turkish Straits 1994 Regulation | | | Week 13 | - Case III: Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean (Article) | | | Week 14 | - Project Presentations | | | Week 15 | - Evaluation of the Term | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Tim Hiller, Source Book on Public International Law, Cavendish Publishing: GB, 1998.
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| 1 | Articles (given during the class)
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| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 04/2024 | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 05/2024 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 06/2024 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 7 | 14 | 98 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 30 | 2 | 60 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 25 | 1 | 25 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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