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Publication Metadata only 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/AThere 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?.Publication Metadata only Competitive jihadism: understanding the survival strategies of jihadist de facto states(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, 2019) Ozpek, Burak Bilgehan; Yağış, Mehmet Yavuz; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThe 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.Publication Metadata only Democratization, clashing narratives, and 'twin tolerations' between islamic-conservative and pro-secular actors(Taylor and Francis, 2010) Department of International Relations; Somer, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 110135The three-year period, which began in 2007 with the controversies preceding the election of Turkey’s eleventh president Abdullah Gül, was critical for Turkish democracy. During these years, some examples of the tensions and intrigues in Turkish politics have included massive pro-secular and anti-government rallies; an online military ultimatum to the democratically elected government rooted in (former) Islamist parties; a case heard at the Constitutional Court to outlaw the governing party for ‘ anti-secularism’; fierce battles in the domestic and international media in which the adversaries have presented themselves as the defenders of democracy or of secularism, calls by the prime minister to boycott the country’s largest, mainly pro-secular media group; and arrests of former military officers, along with pro-secular intellectuals, on various charges including conspiracy to topple the government.Publication Metadata only Domestic politics, international norms and challenges to the state: Turkey-EU relations in the post-Helsinki era(Frank Cass and Company Limited, 2003) N/A; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715Developments in Turkish politics following the endorsement of Turkey's candidacy for full membership at the EU's Helsinki summit of December 1999 underline the significant role that the EU can play as a catalyst for change and reform in candidate countries. The essay draws attention to the emergence of a "pro-EU coalition" in Turkey during the post-Helsinki era and highlights the formidable barriers on the path to Turkey's full membership given the presence of a powerful and vocal "anti-EU coalition." A central argument of this piece is that the EU can help in overcoming the existing stalemate and shift the balance in favor of the proEU coalition through an improved mix of conditions and incentives as it has done so effectively in other national contexts.Publication Metadata only Edmund husserl and phenomenology(Logos Yayincilik Ticaret A.S., 2007) Üstün, Çaǧatay; Department of International Relations; Özgürler, Özge; Undergraduate Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/APhenomenology is a philosophical branch which aims to solve conflicts between pureness and logic in order to reach the pure source of theories by using philosophical and scientific systems. Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology, and he had worked many years (between 1876-1936) in order to develop phenomenology. Phenomenology claims that the mind is not intraverted, and rather the mind is an open skill, which has direct relations with surroundings and with the community. A new concept of social universe has been developed, which is open to new and to change. For these reasons, phenomenology can be regarded as a new, and yet unrecognized branch of science. Because of diffuculties in perception of the concepts of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl was banned to lecture by his colleaques (1936), and his participation to the 9th International Congress of Philosophy in Paris (1937) was hindered. In the recent years, however, a number of new books have revised phenomenology in order to transfer its concepts to wider scientific groups.Publication Metadata only Globalization, markets and democracy: an anthropological linkage(European Physical Society, Qeod, 2003) N/A; Department of International Relations; Mousseau, Michael; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Helsinki, Copenhagen and beyond: challenges to the new Europe and the Turkish state(Taylor and Francis Group, 2004) N/A; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Keyman, Emin Fuat; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715; 45389A quick glance at recent literature on Turkish democracy and its consolidation reveals that the dominant tendency has been to emphasize the significance of internal or domestic factors, which include both political actors and state institutions (Keyman, 2000; Özbudun, 1999). Thus, the literature refers to the clientelistic and populist centre-right or centre-left political parties and their increasing detachment from Turkish society, as well as to institutional problems stemming from the increasingly ineffective and undemocratic characteristic of the strong-state tradition in Turkey. Although this literature provides us with a set of important insights into Turkish politics and its democratic deficit, it remains partial and limited because it overlooks factors in the international context – that is, international organizations and actors – that also exert powerful pressures on Turkey. For example, recent international developments such as enlargement of the European Union (EU) and the war on Iraq have affected Turkish politics directly and demonstrated that it is no longer possible to separate the national from the international, and vice versa.Publication Open Access How do mega-bank merger policy and regulations contribute to financial stability? Evidence from Australia and Canada(Taylor _ Francis, 2017) Department of International Relations; Bakır, Caner; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 108141Although the role of financial regulatory failures in the global financial crisis (GFC) has been explored extensively in the post-GFC literature, our knowledge of the role of bank merger and takeover policy and regulation in reinforcing financial stability is limited. Based on an exploratory case study of Australia, which is examined in comparison to Canada, this article argues that competition policy and regulation contributed to financial stability by insulating the largest Australian and Canadian banks from domestic or foreign hostile takeover threats, and by limiting their asset size, and thus their internationalization and interconnections with the global banking community.Publication Open Access Misinformation on refugees: surveying the consequences, perpetuators and workable solutions(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2022) Department of International Relations; Alışık, Sedef Turper; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 128176; N/AThis article explores the relationship between misinformation and refugee integration and discusses the challenges and opportunities for fighting misinformation about immigrants in the Turkish context. To this end, we utilize in-depth interviews conducted between October 2021-January 2022 with Turkish citizens and migration experts working in the academia, non-governmental organizations and migration units of state and local government agencies. Our findings demonstrate that the prevalence of misinformation pre-senting immigrants as threats foster negative attitudes toward refugees and reinforce separationist and assimilationist acculturation orientations among the refugee community. Our expert interviews point to the lack of political will to fight misinformation about immigrants and suggest that resilience building, rather than misinformation correction can be a viable strategy that non-governmental organizations can adopt to combat misinformation. / Bu çalışma mülteci Mezenformasyon ile mülteci entegrasyonu arasındaki ilişkiyi irdelemekte ve Mezenformasyon ile mücadelede karşılaşılan güçlükleri ve çözüm önerilerini tartışmaktadır. Bu amaçla, çalışmada Ekim 2021 ve Ocak 2022 tarihleri arasında Türkiye Cumhuriyeti vatandaşları ve akademi, sivil toplum kuruluşları ve yerel ve merkezi yönetimlere bağlı göç birimlerinde görev yapan göç uzmanlarıyla yürütülen derinlemesine mülakatlardan faydalanılmıştır. Çalışmamızın bulguları göçmenler hakkındaki yaygın mezen-formasyonun ev sahibi topluluğun mültecilere karşı tutumlarını ve mültecilerin kültürlenme tercihlerini etkilediğini göstermektedir. Göç uzmanlarıyla yapılan görüşmeler mezenformasyonla mücadelede siyasal iradenin eksikliğine dikkat çekmekte ve sivil toplum ku-ruluşlarının bilgi düzensizliğiyle mücadelenin yanlış bilgiyi çürütmek yerine yanlış bilgiye karşı dayanıklılığı güçlendirme çalışmalarına odaklanmasının daha etkin bir strateji olacağına işaret etmektedir.Publication Metadata only Modernization, globalization and development: the state problem in Turkey(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011) Department of International Relations; Keyman, Emin Fuat; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 45389Relying on the analytical distinction drawn by both Joel Migdal and Nicos Poulantzas in their own groundbreaking works on the state, between the idea/type and the reality/form of the state, this chapter employs an understanding of the state as both a "complex institutional ensemble with its own modes of calculation and operational procedures" and a "site where the specific material condensation of power and domination relations among political forces and classes take place," and applies it to the case of Turkey. In doing so, it suggests that while the strong-state tradition constitutes the idea, rheoteric or type of the state in Turkish modernity, the practice, reality or form of the state has been differential and open to remodifications in accordance with the specific condensation of political forces and classes. In substantiating this argument, the chapter will first provide an account of the strong-state tradition in Turkey, and secondly analyze the differential practices and transformations of the state in the process of continuity and change that Turkish modernity has been undergoing since the late Ottoman times, but especially since the decleration of Turkey as an independent nation-state in 1923. In exploring the differential practices and transformations of the state in the process of continuity and change in Turkish modernity, the chapter will also provide a brief account of the role of the state in agriculture at each stage and phase of capitalism and modernity. © 2010 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.