Volume 10, Issue 3, October 2018
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ABSTRACT. In this interdisciplinary work, “geosophy” will be discussed as a concept that links philosophy, politics and space. The focus of the article will be on the development of possible geosophical approaches both in Turkey and worldwide. This article argues that geosophical understanding hybridized with the historical approach, would release a new discussion how politics, human and space are interconnected. This is how the concept “imagined geographies” makes sense in understanding different nationalisms, “excep...
Levent DUMAN: MAPS AS A POLITICAL MEAN: THE SANJAK OF ALEXANDRETTA MAPS ON PRESS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. As in many areas of daily life, maps are also frequently utilized means in politics. As maps can be used for various ways in politics, like bringing up to agenda particular topics, supporting revealed claims, they can also be effective in the process of achieving foreign policy goals. Annexation of the Sanjak of Alexandretta to Turkey has been subject of many studies from different perspectives. The main purpose of this study, by examining maps published at national newspapers in Turkey at beginning of the course, is to analyze utilizati...
Mustafa ULUÇAKAR: AN ANALYSIS ON CONSERVATIVE-DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The main purpose of the study is to examine and discuss the relationships among the ‘conservative-democracy’ discourse, which has been effective to set the political agenda in Turkey since 2002, and the concepts of ‘conservatism’ and ‘democracy’. Firstly, related concepts and theoretical approaches are covered. Thereafter, the overlapping and varying aspects of the ‘hybrid political identity’, generated by unification of the concepts of ‘conservatism’ and ‘democracy’...
Yunus Can POLAT: THE END OF LABOR PARTY'S HEGEMONY IN ISRAELI POLITICS AND THE RISE OF LIKUD AND THE RADICAL RELIGIOUS PARTIES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The Labor Movement which ruled over the Jewish community of Palestine since the 1920s, controlled Israeli governments by parties belonging to this movement culminating in the Labor Party. State and society were designed by the tradition of socialist Zionist Labor Party which actually carried the political agenda of the secular Ashkenazi Jews who created a new Jewish identity in Palestine when they moved there. However, the new reality created by the results of the 1967 War (Six-Day War), has established a proper political ground for the ...
Farkhad ALIMUKHAMEDOV, Laurent A. LAMBERT & Hisham Bin HASHIM: ETHICAL COMMITMENTS AND RAISON D’ETAT IN RENTIER STATES: ASYLUM-SEEKER POLICIES IN THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL AND CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS DURING THE REFUGEE CRISISABSTRACT. The international migrant crisis made headlines during summer 2015 and challenged the national asylum systems of many countries worldwide. Going beyond academic circles, hot debates on migrants and the role of asylum highlighted the gap and paradoxes that exist between claimed values of solidarity on the one hand, and the restrictive policies and regulations towards asylum seekers on the other hand. This paper documents this tension in oil and gas exporting states, particularly in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Central Asian ...
Gizem ALİOĞLU ÇAKMAK & Selin TÜRKEŞ KILIÇ: NATIONAL INTERESTS OR HUMAN RIGHTS? PRESS DISCUSSIONS ON THE FIGHT AGAINST IRREGULAR IMMIGRATION IN TURKEY AND GREECE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. On 18 March 2016 Turkey and the European Union (EU) agreed upon cooperation to stop irregular immigration from Turkey to the EU states via Greece. The agreement has two main dimensions: on the one hand it serves the national interests of the parties, but on the other hand it can be problematic in terms of human rights. This paper aims to provide answers to whether the national interest or the human rights dimension of the agreement prevailed the discussions in Turkey and Greece. For this purpose, within the theoretical framework of Haber...
Rakibe KÜLCÜR: GENDEREDNESS IN ENGOs: A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TURKEYABSTRACT. This paper analyses the gendered organisational practices of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGOs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Turkey and the possible outcomes of these practices on gender compositions in senior roles. Since gender is an important element in organisations, it is expected to have implications for policies of ENGOs. The research on which this paper is based was undertaken as part of a Ph.D. which examined the gendered nature of ENGOs in Turkey and the UK. The research revealed how and why ENGOs are gender...
H. Işıl ALKAN: WOMEN EMPLOYMENT IN ASIA: A CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISON BETWEEN INDIA, SOUTH KOREA AND TURKEYABSTRACT. In line with the recognition of the significance of women in the path to development, various countries have sought to increase female labor market participation over the past decades. While many European countries have been successful, numerous Asian countries have failed. The purpose of this study is to compare the patterns of female employment in three Asian countries since the 1990s including India, South Korea, and Turkey and to discover the main determinants of the issue. Female employment is a multidimensional concept that should ...
Erol SUBAŞİ: KARL MARX: PREVIOUS ACCUMULATION AND BONAPARTISM (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Marx’s analysis of capitalism is criticized for not taking the processes of the coercion into consideration. In this regard, Marx’s account of capitalism is associated with the “thesis of industrial society” according to which the rise of industry and the propagation of capitalistic relations would end the wars and bring peace to the Humanity. The study has three interrelated arguments. First is that the confusion about the role of coercion in Marx’s thought results from the misunderstanding of the Marx&rsqu...
Selma TOKTAŞ: HOW LIBERAL IS NEOLIBERALISM? RETHINKING THE CONCEPTIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE, LEGISLATIVE ORGANS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND COMPETITION IN HAYEK’S THOUGHTABSTRACT. With the expansion of US-led economic policy following the economic depression of the 1970s and the proliferation of new information and communication technologies, the 1980s became a crucial period signaling dramatic changes all around the world. By the end of these years, the Keynesian economy, which accredited states as active and interventionist players in the economy in order to ensure both growth and equity, began to break down. In this period economic liberalism gained power again and political and economic theories and practices ...
Sevgi BALKAN-ŞAHİN: ACKNOWLEDGING THE FLEXIBILITIES OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT: ENSURING THE RIGHT TO ACCESS TO MEDICINES OR A STRATEGY OF PASSIVE REVOLUTION?ABSTRACT. The Doha Ministerial Declaration on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and Public Health adopted in November 2001 clarified the right to use the TRIPS flexibilities to promote public health. Examining the hegemonic struggle of opposing social forces from a neo-Gramscian perspective, the paper attributes this outcome to the strategy of trasformismo used by market-oriented social forces to legitimize the policies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and prevent resistance against the market-driven ...
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