Volume 11, Issue 3, October 2019
Contents
ABSTRACT. Popular culture studies have been mushroomed in the discipline of IR in the last decades. The field of popular culture and its relationship with International Relations (IR) discipline are studied in Turkish IR scholars but some parts are overlooked although it provides fruitful resources for IR. There are different ways to research popular culture in IR and this article aims to suggest one way to better study it in the context of Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP). The article uses some elements of Social Constructivism in IR suggested...
Öner AKGÜL: LABORATORIES FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RESEARCH: METHODS, FUNCTIONS AND SCOPE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The data analysis in international relations is gradually increasing today by researchers and departments of international relations along with the spread of methodological disparity among various social science fields. The empirical research which is an older tradition among Western scholars in IR theory evolved into the experimental fields of laboratories together with the technological development. Beyond the presumptive knowledge, those units both test hypotheses on the phenomena of international relations and provides observa...
Fatma Armağan TEKE LLOYD: AN ASSESMENT OF TURKEY'S MIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICIES AND THEIR INTERSECTION WITH FOREIGN POLICY: 2000-2017 (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This article examines the changes in Turkey’s migration and refugee policies in the light of evolving Turkish Foreign Policy. The main argument of the paper is that while the purpose of the immigration and refugee policies between 2000-2011 was to motivated to comply with the EU standards to achieve the accession as quickly as possible, in the later period, between 2011-2017, Turkey instrumentally used migration/refugee policies to increase its manuvering power with respect to Europe and enhanced its leadership claims ...
Sarkan Salman ABUBAKER & Aslı ILGIT: THE REASONS BEHIND THE RISE AND EXPANSION OF THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS) IN IRAQ: 2003-2018 (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This study focuses on an important period in Iraq’s political history between 2003 and 2018, when ISIS declared caliphate, and examines the importance of local conditions for the organization’s emergence, strength and expansion. In this context, the following issues are discussed: the suspension of Baathists from state institutions and organizations after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003; increasing sectarian violence since 2006, suspension of Sunnis from political process, and the role of the Baathist officers...
Rasim Berker BANK: INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCE OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE LEFT POWER STRUGGLE DIFFERENT THEORETICAL EXPANSIONS IN TURKEY FROM 1960 to 1970 (Turkish)ABSTRACT. While the leftist-socialist movements which found the opportunity to organize legally in the beginning of the 1960s emerged as a result of the development of Turkey’s historical social dynamics, the theoretical analyses that these movements developed strategically were based on the ideas brought forward by the October Revolution, despite all the differences between them. The research question discussed in this study concerns the period when the theoretical influence of the October Revolution on the Turkish left emerged in re...
Murat İNAN: TWO DIMENSIONS OF INTERPERSONAL TOLERANCE: THEIR PREVALENCE AND ETIOLOGY IN WORLD CIVILIZATIONSABSTRACT. This research provides three additional insights into the concept of tolerance. First, it provides empirical insights to the previous research, distinguishing between two dimensions of tolerance; political tolerance and social tolerance. Second, it investigates the extent these two dimensions of tolerance prevail in different civilizations in the world. Third, it shows how etiology of tolerance differs across civilizations. In short, this research shows that tolerance of national and religious groups differs from tolerance o...
Timuçin AKTAN, Bilge YALÇINDAĞ, Tugay ÜNAL & Muhammed Emre SÜLLÜ: CONTENTS OF NATION STEREOTYPES: RELATIONSHIPS OF STEREOTYPE CONTENTS WITH SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL PREDICTORS AND IDENTIFICATION (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The aim of the study was to investigate contents of nation stereotypes in relation with social-structural variables and national identification. In the pilot study, 42 participants identified at most 10 nations that are salient in Turkish society, and rated them in terms of similarity, friendship and likeability. In the main study, 205 university students were asked to evaluate 17 nations (including Turks) obtained in the pilot study, and their level of national identification was measured. Results showed that national stereotypes...
Utku ÖZMAKAS: “EVERYDAY RESISTANCE” AND COORDINATES OF RESISTANCE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Every attempt to understand the concept of “power” inevitably is related to the concept of “resistance”. Therefore, new understandings about the power pave the way for new approaches to resistance. Michel Foucault’s thoughts about the concept of power offer new opportunities to an understanding of resistance. However, this expansion of the scope of the resistance makes it difficult to conduct a discussion about it on a sound basis. This expansion has led to the emergence of new concepts and fields.&nb...
Nezahat ALTUNTAŞ DUMAN & Gülmelek DOĞANAY: TRABZON CITY CENTER AS A SOCIALIZATION PLACE OF THE YOUTH (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The city is a public space where young people learn social norms. In this sense, the city appears as the socialization place of the youth, which is a process of socialization itself. Urban space, which is embellished with symbolic meanings through interaction between its users, gives clues about how this particular youth is built. This study, which is derived from the PhD thesis, focuses on young people in Trabzon. The effects of socialization place on youth experience are measured by taking into consideration various variables su...
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