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Publication Metadata only A new paradigm on the identity-security nexus in international relations: ontological security theory(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2020) Adısönmez, Umut Can; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356Recently, Ontological Security Theory (OST) has found itself a significant place in the International Relations (IR) literature. The theory has provided scholars with a novel analytical framework to explain state behavior and to understand the socio-psychological dynamics underlying the production of a state's self-image and self-narratives. Particularly, the OST has unsettled disciplinary assumptions regarding the primacy of physical security, and offered a framework to analyze the dialectical relationship between state and society in the making, (re)making and protecting of the state's subjective sense of self. The primary aim of this article is to introduce the main arguments and research areas to Turkey's IR community. Additionally, the drawbacks that emanate from the OST's insufficient engagement with critical approaches to security and the extant literature on identity in IR are assessed. / Geçtiğimiz yıllarda Ontolojik Güvenlik Teorisi (Ontological Security Theory – OGT) Uluslararası İlişkiler (Uİ) disiplininde kendine önemli bir yer edindi. Teori, devlet davranışlarını devletin öz-anlatıları üzerinden anlamlandırırken, bu öz-anlatıların yeniden üretilmesinin altında yatan sosyo-psikolojik dinamikleri de ortaya koydu. Özellikle, fiziksel güvenliğin öncüllüğünü tartışmaya açarak ve öz-anlatılar yoluyla devlet kimliğinin oluşması ve korunması süreçlerinde devlet-toplum arasındaki diyalektik ilişkiyi ortaya koyarak önemli katkıları oldu. Bu makalenin birincil amacı OGT’nin ana argümanlarını ve araştırma konularını Türkiye Uİ camiasına tanıtmaktır. Aynı zamanda OGT’nin mevcut eleştirel güvenlik kavramları ve kimlik yazını ile bağlantısının yetersizliğinden kaynaklanan eksiklikleri değerlendirilmektedir.Publication Metadata only At the gates of Europe(Royal Institute International Affairs, 2003) N/A; Department of International Relations; Yılmaz, Şuhnaz Özbağcı; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 46805Elation and disappointment are the moods of the moment in Turkey. Elation at the clearing of the political decks and the choice of a government committed to change. Disappointment at its reversal in the headlong rush to negotiate an early date for entry talks to the European Union.Publication Metadata only Election storm in Turkey: what do the results of june and november 2015 elections tell us?(Seta Foundation, 2015) Department of International Relations; N/A; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yıldırım, Kerem; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 125588; 272085This article analyzes the two general elections in 2015 that followed the local and presidential elections a year earlier. These elections illustrate how a predominant party builds its electoral base, loses, and then recovers votes to consolidate its support base. We demonstrate geographical patterns of voting across the country to illustrate how the electoral scene shifted in less than four months. We discuss the power and limitations of performance politics as a force that shapes electoral outcomes in contexts where security concerns override concerns about economic and social policy performance. We argue that lacking or diminished influence of performance politics is inherently harmful for Turkish democracy and given the divided nature of the electorate a consensus building approach to policy reform and constitution writing is more likely to succeed. © 2015, SETA. All rights reserved.Publication Metadata only From war to peace: Northern Ireland conflict and the peace process(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2016) N/A; Borsuk, İmren; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article analyzes the reasons ethnic violence erupted in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s. Based on semi-structured interviews with civil society workers, local deputies and residents in Northern Ireland that took place during August-September 2014, it argues that in the Northern Ireland case, the cleavage structure and political competition which overlapped with bipolar ethnic divide rendered political parties incapable to appeal to ethnic diversity within Northern Irish society. This article shows that the unionist-nationalist cleavage structure and political competition based on plurality rule brought about ethnic polarization and intensified interethnic tensions by producing governments supported exclusively by Protestants and hindering the incorporation of Catholics into the political system. It also demonstrates that peace negotiations in Northern Ireland were a process of institutional innovation in order to incorporate both communities into the political system.Publication Metadata only Introduction to the special issue anxiety and change in international relations(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2022) Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356Despite being the prevailing emotion of our times, anxiety has received scant attention in the international relations discipline. While political theorists and philosophers have long paid attention to anxiety as distinct from and constitutive of fear, international relations theory has assumed that much of international behavior is guided by fears of specific threats to state survival. However, today, the uncertainties surrounding the future of the world order, unanticipated crises like the COVID-19 pandemic that radically change our lives, unforeseeable terrorist attacks, and the unexplainable lure of radical fundamentalist ideologies all evoke a pervasive anxiety about what we do not know and what we cannot control, rather than the fear of a specific and known enemy.Publication Metadata only The global economic crisis and the future of neoliberal globalization: rupture versus continuity(Brill academic Publishers, 2011) N/A; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Güven, Ali Burak; Faculty Member; Researcher; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715; N/AThis article outlines the main elements of rupture and continuity in the global political economy since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. While the current calamity poses a more systemic challenge to neoliberal globalization than genetically similar turbulences in the semi-periphery during the 1990s, we find that evidence for its transformative significance remains mixed. Efforts to reform the distressed capitalist models in the North encounter severe resistance, and the broadened multilateralism of the Group of 20 is yet to provide effective global economic governance. Overall, neoliberal globalization looks set to survive, but in a more heterodox and multipolar fashion. Without tighter coordination between old and emerging powers, this new synthesis is unlikely to inspire lasting solutions to pressing global problems such as an unsustainable international financial architecture and the pending environmental catastrophe and may even fail to preserve some modest democratic and developmental gains of the recent past.Publication Metadata only The organizational change in finance bureaucracy: The Establishment of Tax Audit Board(Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi, 2012) Department of International Relations; Bakır, Caner; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 108141The establishment of Tax Inspection Administration (TIB) on 10 July 2011 signifies a revolutionary organizational change in fiscal bureaucracy in Turkey. This paper argues that organizational stability at the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has been punctuated by the determined government's powerful intervention in organizational change. This revolutionary organizational change came swiftly, and subsequently affected the MoF bureaucracy as a whole. The research is a qualitative analysis of the TAB's establishment. A combination of interviews and written sources was the main approach to data collection. The paper found that under the title of 'tax auditor', a new sub-identity has been introduced that aims to eliminate various bureaucratic subidentities generating conflict among tax inspectors board, inspection board of finance, budget and fiscal controllers and tax auditors. This change is likely to enhance state's infrastructural capacity to levy and collect taxes via a progress towards an efficient and effective tax-collection machinery. It would facilitate further organizational reforms that faced the strong resistance of tax inspectors board and inspection board members. This paper also points to several policy challenges ahead on this course.Publication Metadata only Turkey's 2011 general elections: towards a dominant party system?(Seta Foundation, 2011) Department of International Relations; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 125588Since 2002, the Turkish electoral environment and the party system have been undergoing a significant transformation. The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) has continued to increase its electoral support for a third time in a row. The declining volatility and fractionalization in the election results together with the expanding geographical base of AKP electoral support may be taken as signs of the emergence of a dominant party system in Turkey. This article offers a descriptive account of the election results and links those results to the literature on the dominant party system. A discussion on the implications of this new development for the evolution of Turkish party system, Turkish political landscape and future elections concludes the article.Publication Metadata only Women and hegemonic masculinity in diplomacy: changing norms and practices(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018) Süleymanoğlu Kurum, Rahime; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356Traditionally male-dominated, diplomacy has entered into a period of transformation with large numbers of women entering the profession. This article introduces the main contributions of the limited number of studies which analyses diplomacy from a gender perspective, and surveys the prevailing masculine norms in diplomacy through examples from different countries. Subsequently, the article discusses how a similar transformation is underway in Turkish diplomacy. Drawing on published memoirs and interviews of female diplomats, it is found that while masculine norms remain prevalent in Turkish diplomacy, they are also weakening gradually with higher numbers of Turkish female diplomats being promoted to prestigious posts. / Geleneksel olarak erkek-egemen bir kurum olan diplomasi yakın zamanda çok sayıda kadının mesleğe girmesi ile bir dönüşüm sürecine girmiştir. Bu makale, diplomasiye toplumsal cinsiyet perspektifinden bakan sınırlı sayıda çalışmanın temel katkılarını tanıtmakta ve farklı ülkelerden örnekler vererek diplomasideki hâkim toplumsal cinsiyet normlarını ortaya koymaktadır. Sonrasında ise makale, benzer bir dönüşümün Türk diplomasisinde de yaşandığını göstermekte ve Türk diplomasisinde artan kadın oranını ortaya koymaktadır. Makalenin temel bulguları, diplomatların yayınlanmış hatıra kitapları ve mülakatlarına dayanarak, bir yandan dünya diplomasisinde ortaya çıkan toplumsal cinsiyet normlarının Türkiye için de geçerli olduğunu doğrularken, diğer yandan kadınların yavaş da olsa diplomatik kariyerde yükselebildiğini ve Türkiye özelinde bu normların kırılmaya başladığını göstermektedir.