Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2019
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ABSTRACT. In recent years, there are some states that are not legally recognized but actively involved in alternative political mappings. These states are seriously challenging the existing system because they maintain their presence in international platforms. Some of these political formations or entities have a certain level of international recognition, while some of which have not been recognized yet. Politicians in these political formations organize referendums within their geographical boundaries, declare their independence and even make f...
F. Didem EKİNCİ: DOMESTIC FACTORS IN TURKMENISTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY: AN ANALYSIS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF NEOCLASSICAL REALISM (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This paper argues that, in view of the importance it attaches to the system, the unit-based and the cognitive factors in the inquiry of foreign policy behavior, and with a content oriented towards examining the foreign policies of a particular state or similar/different foreign policies of various states in time; Neoclassical Realism stands as a foreign policy theory with a remarkable explanatory potential, particularly in view of country analyses. Accordingly, in the context of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy, this paper provides an...
Aslı ÇALKIVİK: MILITARY FANTASIES: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF THE (IM)POSSIBLE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. In this article, I take my departure point the reconceptualization of the very idea of security in the 21st century and the concomitant shift in the logic of security governance from the management of calculable risks towards management of incalculable, uncertifiable risks, and attend to the ways in which this shift has reflected in military strategic thought and planning. I focus on contemporary military futurology and analyze “military fantasies” as a discursive medium through which security constitutes and projects itself ...
Fehmi ÜNSALAN: GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND PHILOSOPHY: ESCAPING FROM PARADIGM (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The aim of this study is to critically examine the nature of philosophical approaches to the burning question of ecological crisis. In this context, study will primarily focus on the specific dilemmas that have caused the current ecological crisis and the questions brought by these dilemmas and secondly to the relationship between ethical approaches dominating the environmental philosophy and current ecological crisis. Philosophy, in fact, is unable to ignore the main problems of its age. And in this sense, it is not possible to say that...
Nahide KONAK: THE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND RUN-OF-RIVER HYDRO DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY ON THE BASIS OF FOUCAULT'S BIO-POWER, GOVERNMENTALITY AND BIO-POLITICS OF SECURITY CONCEPTS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. By drawing on Foucault's concepts of bio-power, liberal governmentality and the biopolitics of security, this study aims to analyze the transition to green economy in the name of global climate change mitigation as well as the development of run-of river channel-type hydro-electric (HEPP) projects, public debates and controversies over these projects in Turkey. It consists of two main arguments: 1) It argues that the global climate change, which came into effect as a result of the second contradiction of capitalism (O’Connor, 1...
Derya BÜYÜKTANIR KARACAN: THE EFFECTS OF THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS ON THE EU THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM: THE CASES OF GERMANY AND HUNGARYABSTRACT. This paper focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis, which incurred a variety of negative social and economic impacts upon many countries in the Middle East, as well as in Europe. The aim of this study is to analyze the divergent attitudes of Germany and Hungary in the face of Syrian refugee crisis and the diversity of measures that these countries have adopted to tackle the refugee problem. The cases are analyzed through social constructivism, which focuses mainly on how the agents and structures mutually construct each other and on identit...
H. Deniz GENÇ & Merve ÖZDEMİRKIRAN-EMBEL: PARADOXICAL PERCEPTIONS ON SYRIANS’ FORCED MIGRATION TO TURKEY: A CASE STUDY OF ISTANBUL MUHTARSABSTRACT. As one of Syria’s neighbors, Turkey has become a refuge for more than 3.5 million forced Syrian migrants. Though many of them are living in Turkey’s border cities, in or around the refugee camps, many others have already dispersed to other cities. Among these cities, Istanbul has the largest Syrian community. Drawing on a qualitative field work in Istanbul’s neighborhoods, this study explores the Syrian migration to Istanbul and reports the attitudes towards this movement of the local neighborhood and village headmen, k...
Fulya MEMİŞOĞLU & H. Çağlar BAŞOL: TURKISH MEDIA’S RESPONSE TO THE 2015 ‘REFUGEE CRISIS’ABSTRACT. In 2015 the forced displacement of Syrians entered a new phase with the sharp rise in the numbers of refugees arriving at Europe’s shores mainly through the Eastern Mediterranean route. Grabbing widespread media and public attention, this unprecedent refugee influx and its surrounding events are commonly dubbed as ‘Europe’s refugee crisis’, which as some scholars highlight, is a ‘re-contextualised’ version of already existing processes of politicisation and mediatisation of immigration. This paper inte...
Ahmet Aykut ALTAY: DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PARLIAMENTARISM AND MULTI PARTY LIFE IN TURKISH SOCIALIST PRESS IN 1960’S (Turkish)ABSTRACT. 1960s were the years when the leftist movements in Turkey awakened at both practical and theoretical levels. Socialist ideas reached larger crowds in Turkey thanks to some internal and external factors, i.e. the realm of freedom provided by the 1961 Constitution, developments demonstrated that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics could compete effectively in certain circumstances with the United States of America, and the rise of socialism both in Arabic World and Western Europe. Turkish socialist journals were therefore full of theor...
Oya KASAP ORTAKLAN: THE CINEMA IN THE OTTOMAN ISTANBUL BETWEEN TRANSNATIONALITY AND MULTICULTURALISM (1895-1914) (Turkish)ABSTRACT. After the first commercial cinematographic screening in Istanbul, film screenings in the Ottoman Empire increased over time and began to attract the attention of governors and the public. These early contacts with the cinema show that the coming of the cinema to the Ottoman Empire means the entrance of a mass media vehicle born into a transnational structure. Cinematograph images have been circulated around many corners of the world by feeding a commercial interest, and the cultures have been watching each other through moving images tha...
Zehra YILMAZ: AN ANALYZE ON THE DISCOURSE OF “NORMALIZING” THE BODY: TRANS-GENDER SURGERIES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This article focuses on the differences between the discourse of medical institutions, the discourse of legislative regulations and the discourse of religious institutions in the process of trans-gender operations. Primarily, this article problematizes how these three institutions’ discourses are interpenetrating and complementing to each other when it comes to trans-gender operations. And then, this article problematizes the determination of these power relations through the ordering of gender regime. In the frame of this, for the...
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