Browsing Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü / Department of Political Science and International Relations by Submit Date
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Plus Ça Change … Re-Articulating Authoritarianism in the New Turkey
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018-01-01)This study argues that the understanding of politics that prevails in contemporary Turkey resonates with Ernesto Laclau’s perspective on Turkish politics of the 1930s. Adapting Laclau’s antagonistic politics to the analysis ... -
Is terrorism becoming an effective strategy to achieve political aims?
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2018-01-01)Terrorism is the method of changing policies of decision-makers and behaviors of the wider society by instigating fear through violent acts. Terrorism can be categorized based on several criteria, such as political aim, ... -
Populism and foreign policy in Turkey under the AKP rule
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)A revisionist tone that has created several crisis has become more pronounced in Turkish foreign policy. This trend has been particularly evident after 2010 when the AKP consolidated its power base, the military's tutelage ... -
Paradigm Shift between Turkey and the Kurds: From ‘Clash of the Titans’ to ‘Game of Thrones’
(Routledge, 2018-01-02)Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic, its military and political elites in Ankara have regarded the Kurdish question as a security issue. Therefore, initiating the ‘peace process’ with the PKK and developing ... -
Opportunity and Willingness as a Pre-Theoretical Framework in Explaining Wars
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018-01-01)Grand theories of international relations seek to produce general patterns, which are supposedly valid across time and space, yet fail to address particular actors and cases. According to Benjamin Most and Harvey ... -
Turkish Efforts in Peacekeeping and the Introduction of the TUBAKOV Dataset: An Exploratory Analysis
(Routledge, 2018-08-08)This study introduces the TUBAKOV dataset, which offers extensive data on 57 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that Turkey has contributed to between the years 1988–2015. TUBAKOV improves existing data in several ways. First, ... -
Dark taints on the looking glass: Whither ‘New Turkey’?
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)The results of the 2002 general election in Turkey came as a powerful shock to multifarious circles both within and outside the country. There were deep concerns that the ‘moderate’ Islamic-oriented Justice and Development ... -
Politicization of recent Turkish history: (ab)use of history as a political discourse in Turkey
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)This article aims to analyze how history has been used as a political discourse by the current ruling elites of Turkey in the post-2010 period. In doing that, the article first defines what the politicization of history ... -
Transformation of Turkey’s Regional Policies: The Case of the KRG Referendum Debacle
(Routledge, 2018-10-02)Turkey’s response to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq’s independence referendum took most observers by surprise. The prevailing assumption was that, despite its vocal objections, Turkey would eventually just ... -
Justice and development party's understanding of democracy and democratisation: Cultural relativism and the construction of the west as the 'other'
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-01-01)The perception of Turkey as a model of attractive country in the region has started to change in the recent years. In the first decade of the JDP rule Turkey was seen as an emerging power with its strong economy, improving ... -
Measuring Assimilation: 'Mother Tongue' Question in Turkish Censuses and Nationalist Policy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014-10)This article aims to examine how the Turkish census measures, classifies and interprets the languages spoken in Turkey. By examining the non-standardised relationship between 'mother tongue', 'domestic language' and ... -
The AK Party and Biopolitics: How a Transformation in Governmentality Affects Population Politics in Turkey
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015)The political rise of the AK Party in Turkey since 2002 has been associated with a social transformation within the country. This article argues that the dynamics of this transformation is rooted in the simultaneously ... -
Bridging the gap between the particular and the universal: an intervention by Cemil Meric
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)This paper investigates whether the Turkish intellectual Cemil Meric's metaphor of silent yet peaceful communication among world literature classics on the same bookshelf might be employed in international political theory ... -
Another lesson learned in Afghanistan: the concept of cultural intelligence
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)Culture has recently become a significant aspect of military operations; the ability to win hearts and minds' of a local population is gained through cultural awareness, a product of cultural intelligence. This article ... -
Identifying Ottomanisms: The Discursive Evolution of Ottoman Pasts in the Turkish Presents
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015-05)This article problematizes the much-used but under-analysed concept of Ottomanism, exploring its discursive evolution from the concept's origins in the nineteenth century to its present practice. Investigating its roots ... -
IŞİD’in Yabancı Savaşçıları ve Yarattığı Tehdit: Türkiye’nin Tecrübesi (2014-2016)
(Uluslararasi İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017)Foreign fighters have been on battlefields as devoted fighting volunteers since the emergence of nation states, but their nature has changed with ISIS. The article suggests that foreign fighters, defined as illegal by the ... -
When did the First World War End for Turkey?
(Univ Provence, 2017-06)This paper investigates the influence of the World War One and the Peace Conferences on the post-1918 conlicts in Anatolia. The paper argues that the "war" continued up until 1939 - albeit in different forms - for two ... -
Turkey and the Kurdish Question: Last Exit Before the Bridge
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process with the Kurds in January 2013 to become the first government since 1984 to systematically negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ... -
The Role of Democracy in the Recognition of De Facto States: An Empirical Assessment
(Lynne Rienner Publ Inc, 2014-10)De facto states are regarded as political authorities functioning within a certain territory without international legal recognition. However, de facto states aim to gain the recognition of other states in order to be ...
