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Publication Metadata only 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/AIn 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.Publication Metadata only Global inequality: the current debate, it's importance and policy recommendations(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2009) Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 224278Despite the recent popularity of the subject of global inequality in the literature, most studies focus only on the debate about the direction and magnitude of change of global inequality during the last few decades, without deliberating about the different policy recommendations needed to address it. This article aims to fill this gap in the literature by reviewing the contemporary research on global inequality with an emphasis on different policy recommendations. In order to introduce the bigger picture, the study also presents a discussion on the latest findings on the level of global inequality and why it should be considered as a significant problem for humanity.Publication Metadata only 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/AN/APublication Metadata only International relations theory and the question of Eastern agency(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2009) Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356I argue that International Relations Theory has not been able to transcend its parochialism because it continues to negate the agency of the East. By analyzing the articles published in four leading journals of the discipline between 2002-2007, I find that the number of studies that focus on the East have indeed increased, but most of these studies continue to situate the cases derived from the East in the context of West-centric theories. Even critical approaches continue to position the West as the main subject of international relations and dismiss the mutual constitution and interaction between the East and the West, and the local and global. I contend that the generation of non-Western IR theories is not going to pose an adequate challenge to West-centrism; what is necessary is the formulation of specific propositions on East-West relations that directly counter the established assumptions of West-centric theories.Publication Metadata only Multiple faces of the "new" Turkish foreign policy: underlying dynamics and a critique(Seta Foundation, 2011) N/A; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715The "axis-shift" discussions on Turkish foreign policy activism over the last couple of years have attracted remarkable international attention. Some pundits have attempted to place Turkey's increasing relations with its neighbors within the context of an ideological and identical reshuffling of Turkish foreign policy principles. While finding the "shift of axis" argument a rather crude characterization, the paper nevertheless argues that there are subtle shifts in Turkish foreign policy orientation. In this context, the paper aims to identify both the elements of continuity and rupture in the style and behavior of Turkish foreign policy. In fact, there are solid political economy fundamentals and legitimate reasons for Turkey to pursue a multidimensional and more assertive foreign policy in the emerging multi-polar world system. However, the present paper underlines that Turkey's multi-dimensional foreign policy activism with no firm axis may have potentially counterproductive consequences regarding Turkey's longterm national interests as well as its ability to play a stabilizing role as a pro-active and benign regional power.Publication Metadata only The CHP and the "democratic opening": reactions to ak party's electoral hegemony(Seta Foundation, 2010) Department of International Relations; Keyman, Emin Fuat; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 45389The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government has initiated a number of democratic opening initiatives to tackle with the Kurdish question, the Alevi question, the Roma question, and the minorities question. This paper focuses on the reaction of the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP) to the initiative. It seeks to explain the CHP's reaction through the concept of "electoral hegemony", which refers to a situation where one party becomes an uncontestable actor in the electoral process, which, while weakening the possibility of the opposition parties winning elections, also weakens the faith and trust of their supporters that these parties could govern Turkey through winning elections. It is argued that the CHP's reaction to the democratic opening initiative is in fact directly related to its need to respond effectively to the electoral hegemony of the AK Party, and that it has developed its response through the concept of sovereignty which has always been integral to its historical identity as the main carrier of the state-centric Turkish modernity.Publication Metadata only The European Union and resolution of regional conflicts(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2007) Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356This study argues that the forms of identity relations that the European Union (EU) establishes with outsider states shapes the Union's ability to positively influence conflicts involving those states. The European identity promoted by the EU embodies both inclusive and exclusive aspects. While the EU has invoked the inclusive aspects of its identity in relation to the states in Central and Eastern Europe, it has constructed Morocco to be inherently different, and fluctuated between inclusion and exclusion in the case of Turkey. These various identity relations have shaped the the EU's impact on Polish-German, Spanish-Moroccan, and Greek-Turkish relations. While the cases of Polish-German and post-1999 Greek-Turkish relations show how an inclusive EU can contribute to the resolution of conflicts on its borders, the cases of Spanish-Moroccan and pre-1999 Greek-Turkish relations demonstrate how an exclusionary EU can end up aggravating the conflicts.Publication Metadata only 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/AIn 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.