Volume 12, Issue 3, October 2020
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ABSTRACT. Traditional economic growth models damage natural resources to which humanity depends, causing important environmental, social and economic problems, especially climate change. Today, it is understood by countries that a new growth approach should be applied in order to ensure the sustainable use of scarce natural resources, combatting negative effects of climate change and reduce poverty while realizing economic development. The view that environmentally friendly investments aren’t cost effective is changing and countries w...
Aslı ÇALKIVİK: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD POLITICS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-SOCIETY STUDIES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The paradox pertaining to technology in world politics in the discipline of International Relations constitutes the departure point for this article: technology as a phenomenon that was always talked about without actually being thought about. Although technology is regularly invoked, discussions about it are marked by technological determinism, whereby technology gets reduced to machines and objects and is never really investigated. Taking my departure point this absent-presence of technology, I provide an alter...
Mustafa ATATORUN: THE IMPASSES OF THE THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL ETHICS: RATIONALITY, IDENTITY AND UNIVERSALIZABILITY (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This study aims to show that moral claims of communitarianism and cosmopolitanism, which establish the relationship between international politics and ethics on consequentialist and deontological foundations, have impasses. It is claimed that those theories discussed within poststructural approach in this paper, imply exclusion or assimilation. Accordingly, in the context of poststructuralism’s uncovering performative feature of the subjectivity through “unsettling of the subject”, by what kind of rationality, id...
Hatice ÇELİK: COMFORT WOMEN: A FEMINIST APPROACH (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula and its rule there between 1910 and 1945 had serious impact on the Korean society and at the memories of its people. This impact has political and socio-cultural reflections. Between two countries (at this point it would be better to use three countries since it is necessary to add North Korea too to the issue), there are some problems coming from the colonial rule, and sometimes they become more visible and lead to tension. One of those issues is the “comfort women”...
Özgür BALKILIÇ & Fatma Armağan TEKE LLOYD: READING THE AKP’S DISCOURSE ON SYRIAN MIGRANTS FROM THE LENS OF TURKEY’S GEOPOLITICAL SCRIPT (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Although AKP employed an open door policy in dealing with Syrian refugee crisis, the way that it shaped its discursive lexicon is puzzling. AKP’s discourse does not easily overlap with familiar theories and practices of international migration. Rather for AKP, this crisis was an indication of a broad range problems in the international system, extending from the categorization of migrants to the problems of morality and leadership. As such, Turkey’s geopolitical script might provide analytical insights to comprehend AK...
Ayşen ÜSTÜBİCİ, Ezgi İRGİL & Gözde CÖBEK: BARGAINING WITH PLACE: EXPERIENCES OF “PRIVILEGE” BY EUROPEAN MIGRANTS IN TURKEY (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This paper unpacks how European migrants living in Turkey experience their privileged status and how they engage in different forms of bargaining with place. Deriving from the literature on lifestyle migration, the article examines the experiences of relative privilege that enabled this group of immigrants to live a good life both financially and emotionally. This study shows that the privileges that come with a strong passport are not independent from the insecurity arising from the structural, economic and political conditions in ...
Melih DUMAN: TURKEY-GERMANY RELATIONS IN 1933 ACCORDING TO THE ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The study addresses the changes experienced in Turkey-Germany relations as a result of the domestic political developments experienced in Germany after World War I, when the National Socialist German Labor Party (Nazis) came to power in 1933. The change experienced in Germany with the Nazi rule reflected itself also in the relations with Turkey and changed the course of Turkish-German relations. Under the light of the archive documents of the State Archives of the Presidency of Turkish Republic, the study analyses Turkish-German r...
Nilgün ELİKÜÇÜK YILDIRIM: FINANCING THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: CHINA’S DEBT TRAP? (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The Belt and Road Initiative, China's largest infrastructure investment initiative in the 21st Century, is the first core of the transformation of the Chinese state capitalism model into an international investment model. The most important reason that led the initiative to be called a state-driven investment initiative is that the financing of projects in the initiative is provided by Chinese state-owned commercial and policy banks and sovereign wealth funds. However, the provision of infrastructure financing through sovereig...
Meryem ÇAKIR KANTARCIOĞLU & Recep FEDAİ: THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION THOUGHT: AN EVALUATION ON TAYLOR AND WILSON IN THE FRAME OF THE 1873 CRISIS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The 1873 crisis, which can be described as the first major crisis of capitalism, arose with the end of the period of economic expansion and stable growth seen since 1840. The business approach, which forms the administrative framework of the capitalist mode of production, determined the public administration paradigm between the 1873 and the 1929 crisis. It is not possible to say that American public administration or the discipline of public administration suddenly and spontaneously emerged. Wilson's article and the scientifi...
Yüksel Alper ECEVİT & Çiğdem KAPAN: AN ANALYSIS OF A CONFRONTATIONAL PERIOD IN LEGISLATIVE-EXECUTIVE RELATIONS: THE CASE OF AHMET NECDET SEZER (2000-2007) (Turkish)ABSTRACT. According to the parliamentary system in the 1982 Constitution, government was formed from within the parliament. Presidents were elected for a seven-year term and were given both legislative and executive powers to a certain extent. Political science literature widely accepts that presidents are given symbolic roles in the parliamentary systems. Contrary to these expectations, Sezer era (2000-2007) marks the most confrontational period of legislative and executive relations in Turkish history, as the right to veto the bills was u...
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