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    Beyond the global financial crisis: structural continuities as impediments to a sustainable recovery
    (Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2012) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; Öniş, Ziya; Kutlay, Mustafa; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 7715; N/A
    There has scarcely been a day in the last three years when we have not read depressing headlines in the newspapers about the global economic crisis. The current turmoil, which many experts concur in seeing as the worst jolt to the world economy since the Great Depression, is pushing the parameters of the established system to its limits. One could say that we see, in the short-term measures taken against the crisis at the time, an effective anti-crisis strategy. But ironically, the promptness with which these short-term measures were enacted prevented adequate questioning of the dominant paradigm which had caused the crisis. As a result, the structural problems leading to the crisis were not reduced. Despite the occurrence of the deepest economic crisis to be experienced since the Great Depression, the present economic emergency did not shake the neoclassical economic paradigm as strongly as was needed. A puzzle that this study aims to solve arises here: Why and how has the conventional wisdom survived and reproduced its intellectual hegemony even after the "most devastating economic crisis" since the Great Depression?.
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    Competitive jihadism: understanding the survival strategies of jihadist de facto states
    (Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2019) Özpek, Burak Bilgehan; N/A; Yağış, Mehmet Yavuz; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    The debates dealing with ISIS address the questions of how ISIS is conceptualized, what its aim is, and how it has successfully retained a core sovereignty zone. This study attempts to answer these questions by proposing that ISIS is a de facto state and uses jihadism as a survival strategy. The term 'competitive jihadism' is used to argue that ISIS competes with its metropole states, Syria and Iraq, on the basis of jihadism. This is a deliberate strategy, which aims to attract Muslims inclined to radicalization as well as to recruit foreign fighters by showing the jihadist deficits of the metropole states. As the research shows, ISIS is successful at this game and has become a magnet for foreign fighters. Thus, it is able to increase its military capabilities and continue to survive.
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    Differentiation, brexit and EU-Turkey relations
    (Routledge, 2020) Cianciara, Agnieszka K.; N/A; Szymanski, Adam; Researcher; N/A; N/A
    Assessing the consequences of Brexit on EU policies, institutions and members, this book discusses the significance of differentiation for the future of European integration. This book theoretically examines differentiated integration and disintegration, focuses on how this process affects key policy areas, norms and institutions of the EU, and analyses how the process of Brexit is perceived by and impacts on third countries as well as other organizations of regional integration in a comparative perspective. This edited book brings together both leading and emerging scholars to integrate the process of Brexit into a broader analysis of the evolution, establishment and impact of the EU as a system of differentiation. This book will be of key interest to scholar and students of European Union politics, European integration, Brexit, and more broadly to Public Administration, Law, Economics, Finance, Philosophy, History and International Relations.
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    Economy as the 'practical hand' of 'new Turkish foreign policy': a political economy explanation
    (Seta Foundation, 2011) N/A; N/A; Kutlay, Mustafa; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    In the recent Turkish foreign policy literature, political economy approaches have started to emerge in addition to the burgeoning international relations analyses. The political economy perspectives that consider foreign policy as a complex web of dynamic interaction between politics, economics and international relations, contribute significantly to more comprehensively furthering the understanding of foreign policy proactivism in Turkey. However, the current literature mainly concentrates on the role of economy in the new Turkish foreign policy within a descriptive framework rather than adopting a critical approach. Therefore, with the aim of filling the aforementioned gap in the literature, this study puts an emphasis on the constraints of the Turkish economy to be employed as a practical hand in Turkish foreign policy. This study highlights the importance of the transformation of Turkish political economy into a “proactive state” structure in order to operationalize economy as a sustainable vehicle in foreign policy. In this regard, this study discusses the three fundamental constraints (1) lack of comprehensive industrial strategy, (2) asymmetric structure of foreign trade and (3) social polarization/lack of synergy. / Türk dış politikası üzerine son dönemde yapılan akademik çalışmalarda, politik ekonomi yaklaşımlarından da istifade edilmeye başlandığı görülmektedir. Dış politikayı ekonomi-siyaset ve uluslararası ilişkilerin dinamik etkileşim kümesi olarak inceleyen söz konusu yaklaşımlar, Türk dış politikasının yapısal dinamiklerini analize imkân tanıyan kavramsal zeminin oluşmasına katkı sağlamıştır. Ancak mevcut literatürde, daha çok, ‘yeni Türk dış politikası’nda ekonominin yeri ve rolü üzerinde durulmakta, eleştirel bir yaklaşım yerine, ‘açıklayıcı’ perspektifler öncelenmektedir. Literatürdeki söz konusu eksikliğin giderilmesine katkı sağlamayı amaçlayan bu çalışmada, ‘yeni Türk dış politikası’nda sorun çözücü bir unsur olarak ekonominin kısıtları üzerinde durulmakta, ekonominin dış politikada sürdürülebilir bir araç olarak kullanılabilmesi için Türkiye’nin politik ekonomisinin “proaktif devlet” yapısına dönüşmesinin gerekliliği vurgulanmaktadır. Bu kapsamda, çözülmesi gereken üç temel kısıt olan (1) kapsamlı sanayi stratejisinin eksikliği, (2) dış ticaretin asimetrik yapısı ve (3) toplumsal kutuplaşma/sinerji eksikliği tartışmaya açılmaktadır.
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    International relations curricula in Turkish Universities
    (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2007) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; Keyman, Emin Fuat; Ülkü, Nihal Esra; Faculty Member; Master Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 45389; N/A
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    The political economy of "new Turkish foreign policy": a critical appraisal
    (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012) N/A; N/A; Kutlay, Mustafa; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    In the recent Turkish foreign policy literature, political economy approaches have started to emerge in addition to the burgeoning international relations analyses. The political economy perspectives that consider foreign policy as a complex web of dynamic interaction between politics, economics and international relations, contribute significantly to more comprehensively furthering the understanding of foreign policy proactivism in Turkey. However, the current literature mainly concentrates on the role of economy in the new Turkish foreign policy within a descriptive framework rather than adopting a critical approach. Therefore, with the aim of filling the aforementioned gap in the literature, this study puts an emphasis on the constraints of the Turkish economy to be employed as a practical hand in Turkish foreign policy. This study highlights the importance of the transformation of Turkish political economy into a 'proactive state' structure in order to operationalize economy as a sustainable vehicle in foreign policy. In this regard, this study discusses the three fundamental constraints (1) lack of comprehensive industrial strategy, (2) asymmetric structure of foreign trade and (3) social polarization/lack of synergy.