Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2020
Contents
ABSTRACT. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, climate change will affect the rivers leading to the Mediterranean, desertification will increase, rise in sea level will affect coastal settlements, and crop productivity will decrease in the region. Therefore, climate change is an important issue for the Mediterranean region. The European Union (EU) is a frontrunner in climate change policy, committing itself to a decarbonized economy by 2050. The EU also promotes climate action in the world through its climate diplomacy. Suc...
Nihal KIRKPINAR ÖZSOY & Poyraz ÇİNİ: AN EVALUATION OF ANTHROPOCENTRIC GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECOCENTRIC ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS VIEW (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Environmental problems are dated back the start of the relations between human and nature. The structure of thought which gives direction to the relationship between human and nature is called environmental ethics. Anthropocentric environmental ethics, which assume that nature occuring as a tool for only serving for human usage, is the main reason that creates environmental problems. In the contrast of this view, there is ecocentric ethic approach that defends nature has an intrinsic value and ecosystem is a whole. Until today, many...
Nazlı ŞENSES: PRO-MIGRANT CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS: CHANGING POLITICS AND ACTIVITIES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The goal of this article is to discuss the relationship between international migration and civil society from the point of view of pro-migrant organisations. It is important to understand the relation between civil society and migration since all the politics and discourses towards migrants takes places also at the level of civil society in parallel to the level of state. Studying only the politics of state depicts the social context of migration only partially. However, a focus on the activities of pro-migrant civil society p...
Cihan ÖZPINAR: GENDER AND CLASS RELATIONS IN CAPITALISM: A CRITIQUE OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION APPROACHES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This article examines the theoretical insights developed on the basis of Marxian critique of political economy by Socialist-Feminist literature that focuses on the connection between gender relations and capitalist mode of production. This literature, which understands the causality relation between capitalism and women’s oppression within the framework of social reproduction theory, does not only provide a significant contribution to the women’s movement but also provokes fruitful discussions on the actual workings of c...
Hamza Bahadır ESER & Ali ÇİÇEK: FOOTSTEPS OF THE EXTREME RIGHT IN EUROPE: PATHOLOGICAL NORMALIZATION OF XENOPHOBIA (Turkish)ABSTRACT. During the 2000s, the extreme right-wing parties in Europe were supported by the wider public and experienced a significant outflow. In these years, the extreme right has been the ruling party or main opposition party in many countries. Today, the far right continues to be the leading political actors in the European countries, as well as in the developed countries of the world and in countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which are considered as examples of liberal democracy. This progress stems from the increase in migration mobility ...
Dilek Elvan ÇOKİŞLER: REPUTATION THEORY: A UNIFYING THEORY ON COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This research deals with the question of why states comply with international law in terms of International Relations theories. It is argued that the “Reputation Theory”, which holds the main factor urging states to comply with international law to be the concern over recognition by other states as unreliable, is an approach that combines three different theories of the International Relations discipline, namely Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism. The literature review-based study first emphasizes the differences bet...
Onur GÖKÇER & Pınar GÖZEN ERCAN: JUS AD BELLUM AND JUS IN BELLO IN CYBER WARS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The concept of war has been transforming since the Cold War period, and such transformation has been strengthened by “the war against terror” policy of the United States of America. In light of this conceptual transformation, it is no longer argued that wars take place only between states. New wars—which are asymmetric and do not have a limited war zone—have not changed traditional wars all together, instead, they have blurred the definitions and distinctions pertaining to traditional wars and added new conce...
Ebru İLTER AKARÇAY: UNRAVELING PRESIDENTIALISM: LEARNING FROM THE LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCEABSTRACT. Early studies on presidentialism associated the design with political instability and weak democratic credentials, with deeply divided societies being particularly advised not to craft presidential regimes. Practices of presidentialism around the world later reframed the debate, as the focus shifted to variants of presidentialism. Presidentialism, in all its shades and colors, negates a monolithic set of political outcomes as evidenced by the constant experimentation in Latin America. This study scrutinizes how some reforms in Latin...
Birgül DEMİRTAŞ & Zuhal YEŞİLYURT GÜNDÜZ: BEING A FEMALE ACADEMIC IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN TURKEY: GLASS CEILINGS AND IVORY BASEMENTS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The number of female academics who are in the first steps of their academic career in the departments of International Relations/Political Science and International Relations in Turkish universities are relatively high, but there is a considerable gender inequality with regard to getting the title of professorship. This article analyses female academics’ perceptions of working environments and career opportunities in these departments from the perspective of gender. The article is based on 58 semi-structured interviews held wi...
Erol ÜLKER: OTTOMAN WAR ECONOMY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PROFESSIONS PROGRAM: NOTES ON THE STATE-CAPITAL RELATIONS IN THE FINAL YEARS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This essay deals with the economic and political conditions of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. It concentrates on two closely related issues. First, it examines how a financial-military network began to dominate the Ottoman war economy towards the end of 1916 by looking at the formation of the National Credit Bank. Second, it discusses the political context that emerged in the final years of the empire with the rise of military-financial hegemony. This question is addressed by reference to the Representation of Profession...
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