{"id":11359,"date":"2025-06-09T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11359"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:26:34","slug":"studying-the-state","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/turkey\/studying-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying the State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-7d19a5aa\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-1f2875eb gb-headline-text\">Studying the State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b1648cf9 gb-headline-text\"><em>Theoretical and Methodological Insights<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ezgi-pinar-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EZG\u0130 PINAR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#melehat-tutun-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MELEHAT KUTUN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#atilla-guney-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AT\u0130LLA G\u00dcNEY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This course brings forward a methodological approach to the state. Debates on the role and nature of the state are at the center of contemporary politics. Together with the erosion of liberal democracy and the rise of authoritarian regimes, the state is subject to a range of interpretations such as authoritarian state, failed state, exceptional state, and rogue state. Hence, not only the functions of the state in contemporary politics but also its formation, its re-scaling, its relations to other social organizations, and different parts of social life need to be explored. This course aims to open a discussion on competing accounts about nature, functions, and changing structure of the state in modern politics. In doing so, first, the existing approaches such as the Weberian approach, liberal\/neo-liberal theories, structural-functionalist accounts, and Marxist state theory(s) will be elaborated. After a comparative elaboration of these approaches, the capitalist state as a formation, entity, and as an abstraction will be analyzed and its theoretical roots will be questioned. Assessing the existing methodologies and addressing alternative methodologies is the fundamental aim of this course. At the end of the course, participants will be able to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is the state a reality or an illusion?<br>How should the state be understood?<br>Where does the state start and end?<br>What are the limits of the state?<br>What is the relationship between state, society, and\/or individual?<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6b297dcb gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/studying-the-state-syllabus-S21.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von studying-the-state-syllabus-S21.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8bc2f5cb-3f13-43b5-ae2a-b898458a7672\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/studying-the-state-syllabus-S21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studying-the-state-syllabus-S21<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">12.04.21 &#8211; 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