Browsing by Keywords "Eurasia"
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Global disorder and the limits of 'dialogue'
(Routledge, 2008)Since 2001 (designated as the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilisations) several initiatives have been developed as a means of resolving problems whose causes have been ascribed, primarily by Samuel Huntington and Bernard ... -
Good for the Shah, banned for the mullahs: The West and Iran's quest for nuclear power
(Middle East Institute, 2006)Iran's nuclear program has become a highly controversial issue in international politics since the August 2002 unveiling of the secretly built uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and the heavy-water production plant in ... -
Has European customs union agreement really affected Turkey's trade?
(Routledge, 2007)The numerous discussions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of Turkey's becoming a member of the Customs Union has been inconclusive. The empirical analysis that mostly focus on the changes in the volume of trade ... -
Income inequality and economic convergence in Turkey: a spatial effect analysis
(Sage Publications, 2009)Even though the convergence of regional per capita income has been a highly debated issue internationally, empirical evidence regarding Turkey is limited as well as contradictory. This article is an attempt to investigate ... -
International regulations and environmental performance
(Routledge, 2008)This article employs the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to compute the environmental performance of all but two Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. It is found that although ... -
Investigation on sources of growth for Turkey
(Routledge, 2006)This paper evaluates the correlations between growth and selected macroeconomic indicators in, Turkey under the dynamic macroeconomic adjustments as a globalizing developing economy during 1968-1998. In this context, a ... -
The Iraq war, Turkey, and renewed caspian energy prospects
(Middle East Institute, 2008)Many have linked the US-led invasion of Iraq to its oil resources, leading some observers to question Caspian energy prospects. This article analyzes how the Iraqi occupation and Caspian oil prospects have been inter-linked, ... -
Liquidity and price volatility of cross-listed French stocks
(2005)The changes in the volatility and liquidity of French stocks are examined before and after their cross-listing on the German electronic market, the Xetra. The results are mixed in terms of the change in liquidity and ... -
Macroeconomics of twin-targeting in Turkey: analytics of a financial computable general equilibrium model
(Routledge, 2008)The paper provides an overview of the post-1998 Turkish economy and constructs a macroeconomic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to illustrate the real and financial sectoral adjustments of the Turkish economy ... -
Market reaction to risky banks: did generous deposit guarantee change it?
(Pergamon Press, 2008)Turkey experienced a massive banking crisis in February 2001, resulting in the loss of more than a thousand managerial jobs and the closure of 21% of all bank branches in the market. In this paper, we study the behavior ... -
Measuring exchange rate misalignment in Turkey
(Routledge, 2004)Turkey has embarked an extensive dis-inflation and stabilization program in December 1999. The programme exclusively relied on a nominally pegged (anchored) exchange rate system for dis-inflation and on fiscal austerity. ... -
The metamorphosis of metaphors of vision: "bridging" Turkey's location, role and identity after the end of the cold war
(2009)During the Cold War, "buffer" or "bastion" seemed a popular metaphor to describe Turkey. After the Cold War, "bridge," (and, to some extent, the "crossroad") metaphor started to dominate the Turkish foreign policy ... -
The missing link between inflation uncertainty and interest rates
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005)In the literature, there is no consensus about the direction of the effects of inflation uncertainty on interest rates. This paper states that such a result may stem from differentiation in the sources of the uncertainties ... -
Monetary policy rules in practice: evidence from Turkey
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2004)This paper estimates a forward-looking monetary policy reaction function of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey by considering the period from 1990:01 to 2000:10. When the spread between the interbank rate and ... -
Monetary transmission mechanism in Turkey under the monetary conditions index: an alternative policy rule
(Routledge, 2004)This study analyses monetary transmission mechanism in Turkey using a small structural macroeconomic model. The core equations of the model consist of aggregate demand, wage-price setting, uncovered interest rate parity, ... -
NATO enlargement and its implications for Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2001)NATO, which has been throughout the Cold War a collective defense organization, was considered either useless or out of date with the end of the Cold War. However, as it did in the early years of the Cold War, habitually ... -
Neighborhood effects and women's agency regarding poverty and patriarchy in a Turkish slum
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2008)This paper aims to understand the interplay between the neighborhood (spatial) effects of poverty, ethnicity, kin, and patriarchy, and women's agency in the context of an inner-city slum in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. ... -
“Only strong states can survive in Turkey's geography”: the uses of “geopolitical truths” in Turkey
(Pergamon Press, 2007)Following Critical Geopoliticians' re-formulation of geopolitics as discourse, this article historically traces, politically contextualizes, and empirically analyzes the linguistic practices as found in myriad actors' ... -
A paradigmatic shift for the Turkish generals and an end to the Coup era in Turkey
(Middle East Institute, 2009)Turkey has been undergoing major democratic transformations in recent years, but one issue remains in question: the role of the military. Have these democratic changes also included an irreversible, structural change for ... -
The partition of Khorezm and the positions of Turkestanis on Razmezhevanie
(Routledge, 2008-09)Cold War historiography, in many instances, explained the delimitation of borders in Central Asia as a part of Moscow's divide and rule policy in Turkestan. However, the viability of this approach can be challenged by an ...
