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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
SSB506 - Theories of Modern State II. SEMESTER 3 +0 6.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. FİKRET ÇELİK
Mode of Delivery The course is taught by the instructor, students discuss the course, and students present their assignments.
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Prerequisites No
Courses Recomended Enlightenment and the Modern State, Modernization Theory, Political Ideologies.
Recommended Resources -Akal, C. B. (edit.-2011), Devlet Kuramı, Ankara: Dost Kitabevi.-Strayer, J. R. (2020), Modern Devletin Kökenleri, İstanbul: Say Yayınları.-Poggi, G. (2002), Modern Devletin Gelişimi, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.--Cassirer, E. (1984), Devlet Efsanesi, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Scope, methods and techniques, subject and purpose of the course, definition and birth of the modern state, its development line, understanding the state from a historical perspective.
Week - 2 State within the framework of liberal thought.
Week - 3 The state within the framework of collectivist ideas.
Week - 4 Feudal structure and transformation in Europe.
Week - 5 The birth of the modern state.
Week - 6 Treaty of Westphalia and transition to the modern state.
Week - 7 Enlightenment and the modern state.
Week - 8 The French Revolution and the modern state.
Week - 9 midterm exam
Week - 10 Nation-state, identity and citizenship.
Week - 11 The place of modern citizenship in the change and transformation of the state.
Week - 12 Modern state apparatus and ideological transformations after World War II.
Week - 13 The role given to the state within the framework of neo-liberaism and neo-conservatism.
Week - 14 Discussions about the modern state apparatus in the post-modern period.

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