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Publication Metadata only ‘Culture’ in EU–Turkey relations(Taylor and Francis, 2016) Department of International Relations; N/A; Rumelili, Bahar; İşler, Didem Çakmaklı; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51356; 260783Contemporary socio-political and economic situations in the countries of SEE greatly influence their mutual relationships which are already bearing heavy loads from the past as well as distinct visions of the future. Politicians are forced to change their own priorities, sometimes even decisions, to fit the daily demands of their coalition partners or the expectations of public opinion which are often influenced by populist officials and media. The government and majority representatives condemning crimes committed in Srebrenica approved the decision of the European Parliament. Yugoslav cultural diplomacy was tuned equally toward West and East and also toward countries of the third world. All Balkan countries are open to global cultural flows but, paradoxically, their institutional systems are still closed towards the products of mass culture of neighbouring countries, particularly in the case of ethno-pop or folk music. International dimensions of national cultural policies of the Balkans primarily focus on transferring knowledge, improving the national image and increasing national influence.Publication Metadata only 50 years after the labour recruitment agreement with Germany: the consequences of emigration for Turkey(Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, 2012) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 207882Turkey is a country with relatively recent and ongoing experience of labour emigration. Starting with the signing of the bilateral Turkish-West German labour recruitment agreement in October 1961, it has been a country of emigration, a trend that significantly influenced part of its economic, social, and political history. This essay elaborates the last fifty-year history of labour emigration from Turkey, and its consequences for the country in the economic, social and political spheres. It aims to sketch briefly the trends and patterns of emigration flows with reference mainly to the changing nature of these flows over time. More specifically, the essay offers an overview of the main impacts of labour migration for the country. It concludes that neither the positive nor the negative consequences of emigratory flows for the country should be overestimated.Publication Metadata only Alevis in Turkey(Taylor and Francis, 2018) Department of International Relations; N/A; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Elçi, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Researcher; Department of International Relations; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 125588; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Assessing the progress of the democratic peace research program(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012) N/A; Ungerer, Jameson Lee; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article analyzes the evolution of the democratic peace, beginning from the initial observation of a lack of wars and rarity of conflicts between democratic regimes to a number of competing and/or compatible explanations over the causality of the observed peace. a Lakatosian methodology is applied as a foundation for assessing the progress of the research program, According to the four traditionally recognized concepts: a hard core; a positive heuristic; a negative heuristic; and the auxiliary hypotheses. theories are distinguished based on their theoretical and empirical progressiveness, As well as progressive intra-program problem-shifts. Explanations over the active causal process have often been seen as competitors, yet a Lakatosian framework enables seemingly inconsistent hypotheses to be grafted onto an existing research program, which can be determined to be progressive if they provide increased explanatory power and novel predictions that receive empirical corroboration. By these criteria, the research on capitalist development and the ongoing democratic peace research are not incompatible, provided that further additions to the research program ascertain the progressive criteria. Furthermore, by highlighting the areas that can best explain and predict the democratic peace phenomenon, the Lakatosian analysis offers insights for future progression in the field, As well as the areas upon which research should be focused.Publication Metadata only Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2024) N/A; Barıt, Hasan Basri; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesIn the last decade, there has been a growing interest in Global International Relations (IR), which calls for a non-Western approach to IR, an endeavor that has produced several books and articles. One recent such work is Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders by Ayşe Zarakol in 2022. This book differs from other studies on Global IR with its alternative narrative based on the Chingissid world order, which challenges Eurocentrism from an Asian angle with the help of the IR terminology that we use today.Publication Metadata only Compliance forces, domestic policy process, and international regulatory standards: compliance with Basel III(Cambridge Univ Press, 2020) N/A; Çoban, Mehmet Kerem; Researcher; The Center for Research on Globalization, Peace, and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) / Küreselleşme, Barış ve Demokratik Yönetişim Araştırma Merkezi (GLODEM); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 346796This article contributes to our understanding of how and why developing countries would comply with international banking regulatory standards, Basel standards. The article demonstrates the interplay between opportunity structures constituted by transnationalization of public policymaking and domestic institutional setting, and how forces of compliance resonate in the domestic politics of compliance. The empirical findings are based on Turkey's compliance with Basel standards. It relies on fieldwork that involves semi-structured qualitative interviews with senior regulators and bankers, which are complemented with analysis of secondary data. The article shows that a capable and willing regulator could capitalize on the top-down policymaking style which restricts the regulatee's access to international negotiations, and sets the terms at the domestic level. Direct access to international negotiations, resource asymmetry in favor of the regulator, and superior "negotiation knowledge" helped the regulator pacify a critical, skeptical regulatee, and drive the compliance process. The article also shows that the compliance process takes place at three stages: policy formulation at the international level, an "interpretation stage" in between the international and the domestic levels, and finally the domestic policy process.Publication Metadata only Concepts for international law: contributions to disciplinary thought(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2019) N/A; Çalı, Başak; Faculty Member; Law School; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Dealing with Argentina's foreign policy in the emerging multipolar world-a comparative analysis of think tank responses to the malvinas issue: the Argentine center of international studies(Springer, 2018) N/A; N/A; Levaggi, Ariel Gonzalez; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Open Access Debating the dual citizenship- integration nexus in Turkey(International Relations Council of Turkey (IRCT) / Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2019) Şenol Sert, Deniz; N/A; Korfalı, Deniz Karcı; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article explores the institution of dual citizenship outside of the West and focuses on Turkey to assess the possible relationship between dual citizenship and the integration of migrants, drawing on Kymlicka and Norman's (2000) dimensions of citizenship framework, with its tripartite focus on formal status, activity and identity. The research incorporates the perspectives of the three key groups of actors involved in international migration: the host state, the major sending states, and the migrants themselves. Our findings indicate that dual citizenship is neither a barrier to, nor facilitator of, integration in the citizenship dimension of activity in Turkey. Rather, integration - perceived as economic participation by the great majority of the actors - is linked not to dual citizenship per se, but to the acquisition of citizenship in the host country.Publication Metadata only Economic integration/political fragmentation paradox: the euro crisis and the future of European Union(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 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/AThe Euro-zone project has been struggling for survival since it was hit hard by the global fi nancial crisis in 2008. When the crisis fi rst erupted, the member countries immediately plunged into a vicious cycle of ‘blame-game’ by trying to transfer the burden on the shoulders of other members. In this article, we argue that the structural problems pertaining to the very architecture of the Euro-zone rather than the individual policy choices of member states were at the heart of the deep crisis that the European Union is currently confronted with. Our central argument, therefore is that the ‘economic integration/political fragmentation’ paradox constitutes a central underlying element of the Euro-zone crisis. We claim that the future of the Euro-zone and thereby the European Union will mainly be shaped by the response of the European leaders to the economic integration/political fragmentation paradox. Th e mostlikely response of the EU to this paradox will be a La Carte Europe, which foresees diff erent integration level among EU member countries. Finally, the type of European leaders’ response to the paradox in question will closely aff ect the future of Turkey-EU relations. Th e emergence of a more fl exible Europe may open up new avenues for Turkey-EU relations. / 2008 yılından bu yana avro bölgesi derin bir ekonomik kriz içerisinde adeta varoluş mücadelesi vermektedir. Kriz ilk ortaya çıktığı andan itibaren avro bölgesi üyeleri, sorunun yapısal nedenlerini ortadan kaldırmaya odaklanan çok-boyutlu ve eş-zamanlı tedbirler almak yerine birbirini “suçlama yarışına” girmiştir. Konuya politik ekonomi perspektifi nden yaklaşan bu makalede, avro bölgesindeki krizin temelinde, “üye ülkelerin sorumsuz politikalarından” ziyade avro bölgesinin mimarisinden kaynaklanan yapısal sorun olan “ekonomik bütünleşme/siyasal parçalanmışlık” paradoksu olduğu iddia edilmektedir. Avro bölgesinin geleceği, Birlik üyelerinin bu paradoksa nasıl cevap vereceklerine göre şekillenecektir. Bu eksende daha az üye ile daha fazla bütünleşme öngören ancak monolitik AB mimarisi idealini de gündeminden düşüren “A la carte Avrupa” modelinin, AB bütünleşmesinde “ikinci en iyi çözüm” olarak önümüzdeki dönemde gündeme geleceği vurgulanmaktadır. Tüm bu gelişmelerin Türkiye-AB ilişkilerinde “imtiyazlı ortaklık” değil, “esnek üyelik” modeline somut uygulama alanı sağlayacağı öngörülmektedir.