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Item Metadata only “At Least, at the border, i am killing myself by my own will”: migration aspirations and risk perceptions among Syrian and Afghan communities(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2023) 0000-0002-1498-0025; 0000-0002-9426-428X; Department of International Relations; N/A; Önay, Ayşen Ezgi Üstübici; Taşan, Eda Kirişçioğlu; Faculty Member; PhD Student; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238439; N/AIt is well-documented that border controls make migration journeys riskier for people on the move. Policymakers construe deaths in migration journeys as resulting from the individual risk-taking attitudes of migrants. However, risks involved in migration journeys are not only related to border control measures. Based on the analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews conducted with Syrian and Afghan migrants in Turkey, we embrace a social constructionist approach to unpack how migrants form their aspirations based on their risk perceptions. Our findings explain why some migrants would still move onwards despite violent borders while others stay or search for "safer" ways for onward migration.Item Metadata only A Critical juncture: Russia, Ukraine and the Global South(Routledge, 2024) 0000-0002-0129-2944; Kutlay, Mustafa; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine constitutes a critical juncture for the trajectory of the liberal-international order. It has undermined the US-led order by widening geopolitical rifts between the West and the Global South, increasing pressure on liberal democracy on a global scale and weakening the neo-liberal economic paradigm that has anchored the economic order since the 1980s. © 2024 The International Institute for Strategic Studies.Publication Metadata only Actions, contexts, mechanisms and outcomes in macroprudential policy design and implementation(Sage Publications Ltd, 2021) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Bakır, Caner; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 108141Causal mechanisms have received significant attention within the social sciences, and policy design and implementation occupy a prominent place in public policymaking. However, one area that has not received much attention in this literature is the causal mechanisms that are able to link policy instruments with outcomes due to operating within the appropriate contexts. This article seeks to fill this gap in the literature. Drawing on realistic evaluation and comparative historical institutionalism, and an exploratory case study on macroprudential regulation in Turkey between June 2011 and September 2016, this article argues that the success of macroprudential instruments in securing of macrofinancial stability is most likely when they trigger causal mechanisms that operate within the appropriate contexts.Publication Metadata only Algeria, 1830-2000: a short history(Cambridge Univ Press, 2003) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Dillman, Bradford L.; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AN/APublication Metadata only An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2021) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 224278A prevalent assumption in the economic voting literature is that voters' retrospective evaluations are based on very recent outcomes only, that is, they are myopic. I test this assumption by drawing on a population based survey experiment from Turkey. Turkey presents a good opportunity to explore voters' time horizons for economic voting: the long tenure of the same single-party government entailed periods of both good and poor performance, and its overall record to date has been better than its immediate predecessors. I find that voters can provide divergent assessments of incumbent's performance in managing the economy over different time periods that are in line with the country's macroeconomic trajectory. Moreover, voters' evaluations of the incumbent's performance during its entire tenure have a stronger effect on economic vote than their shorter term evaluations, defying voter myopia. I provide evidence that long-term outcomes might weigh heavier in voters' considerations than commonly assumed.Publication Metadata only Anxiety and possibility: the many future(s) of COVID-19(Sage, 2023) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356This is the introduction to the forum, Anxiety and possibility: the many future(s) of COVID-19. It summarizes the contributions within a common framework and situates them in the extant literature.Publication Metadata only Authoritarianism in central Asia: curse or cure?(Carfax Publ Co, 1998) N/A; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Kubicek, Paul J.; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AThe former Soviet republics of Central Asia-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan-have largely resisted the movement toward democracy that has swept over other former communist states. Many factors can account for this: low levels of economic development, traditional culture, weak civil societies, the leading-role of the old nomenklatura in these new states, and ethnic cleavages. The larger question is what effect continued authoritarianism will have in these states. Should such governments be condemned as 'backwards' or do they serve a function, such as state-building, maintenance of inter-ethnic peace, or facilitators of economic growth? This article argues that the regimes of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, on balance, do serve a positive purpose, preserving order and discouraging expression of radical nationalism. On the other hand, success for democracy in these countries is far from likely, and limited democratic experience in Kyrgyzstan shows that it carl exacerbate ethnic tensions and threaten economic reform. There are, of course, risks and problems associated with even the most benign forms of authoritarianism, but thus far many of these pitfalls have been avoided.Publication Metadata only Border closures and the externalization of immigration controls in the mediterranean: a comparative analysis of Morocco and Turkey(Cambridge Univ Press, 2018) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 238439; 207882This article traces the recent history of border closures in Turkey and Morocco and their impact on human mobility at the two ends of the Mediterranean. Border closures in the Mediterranean have produced new spaces where borders are often fenced, immigration securitized, and border crossings and those facilitating border crossings criminalized. Here, bordering practices are conceptualized as physical bordering practices, border controls, and legal measures. Turkey and Morocco constitute comparable cases for an analysis of border closures insofar as they utilize similar mechanisms of closure, despite having quite different outcomes in terms of numbers. The article's findings are based on fieldwork conducted at both locations between 2012 and 2014, as well as on analysis of Frontex Risk Assessment Reports from 2010 to 2016. The first part of the article reflects on the concepts of border closure and securitization, together with their implications, and draws for its argument on critical security studies and critical border studies. The second part of the article is an overview of controls over mobility exercised in the Mediterranean from the 1990s onward. Then, in the third and fourth parts, we turn to the particular cases-respectively, Turkey and Morocco-in order to discuss their processes of border closure and the various implications thereof. Through analysis of the two country cases, we show that border closures are neither linear nor irreversible.Publication Metadata only Brand Turkey: liminal identity and its limits(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Rahime; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowed Turkey to invoke different aspects of its identity in the West and the East in ways that catered to both audiences and enabled the pursuit of different political and economic objectives. However, the article also notes how this branding strategy was limited by the national identity debates and dominant geopolitical discourses that continued to situate the West and East as mutually exclusive and binary opposite identity markers. Overall, the case of Turkey underscores the complex relationship between branding, identity, and discourse, which has thus far received scant attention in the literature.Publication Metadata only Breaking with Europe's pasts: memory, reconciliation, and ontological (In) security(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356The European Union is widely credited for consolidating a democratic "security community" in Europe, and bringing about a definitive break with war-torn and authoritarian/totalitarian pasts in many European countries. Drawing on recent discussions in ontological security studies, this article points out that these radical breaks may have come at the expense of ontological insecurity at the societal and individual levels in Europe. While conventional teleological narratives often treat reconciliation and breaking with the past as automatic by-products of European integration, ontological security theory calls for greater attention to the societal tensions and anxieties triggered by these transformations and how they are being managed -more or less successfully - through reconciliation dynamics and memory politics in different societal settings. Illustrating the variation in a number of cases, this article claims that a systematic comparative analysis of the different dynamics of reconciliation and memory politics in different European societies is central to analyzing European integration from an ontological security perspective.