Browsing by Keywords "Civil-military relations"
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Bargaining in institutionalized settings: the case of Turkish reforms
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2010)By analyzing the case of a bargaining situation in an institutionalized setting, which derives from Turkey's reform process in a sensitive issue area (civil-military relations), this study assesses the explanatory power ... -
Civilianization in Greece versus "demilitarization" in Turkey: a comparative study of civil-military relations and the impact of the European Union
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2006)The civil-military-relations literature has long concentrated on domestic factors in explaining the relationship between civilians and the military. This article concentrates on the effect of an external actor, the European ... -
Construction of civil-military relations in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2011)Maintaining civilian control over military constitutes the classical problematique of the civil-military relations (CMR) scholarship. Besides, the relationship between military and civilians are taken as conflictual. ... -
Deconstructing the Turkish military's popularity
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2009)Why is the military so popular in Turkish society? By using World Values Survey data, this study explores the impact of several political, social, and personal factors on societal confidence in the military. Empirical ... -
The flagship institution of Cold War Turcology, Türk Kültürünü Araştırma Enstitüsü, 1961-1980
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2017)The study of the cultural Cold War, the untold story of how the USA and the USSR employed and often exploited the academia and the arts for war purposes, is now a particularly fruitful line of inquiry, but it has scarcely ... -
Non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces' political power : a "military in society" approach
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis is an attempt to understand the non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces’ political power. For that purpose, the thesis looks at theories of power and relevant civil-military relations literature and ... -
“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' ... -
Opening the blackbox : the transformation of the Turkish military
(Bilkent University, 2016-03)The existing research on Turkish civil-military relations (CMR) in general and on civilianization process since the early 2000s in particular tends to neglect the military side of the story. Despite the fact that the ... -
Soldiers in legitimate politics: the Israeli case
(Bilkent University, 2021-07)Why do officers enter politics after retiring from service, and how do they choose which political party to join? This thesis addresses these questions by looking at the Israeli case. Israel is an atypical case in this ... -
The study of militarism: English-speaking world scholarship and Turkey’s scholarship compared
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Militarism has attracted academic attention since late seventeenth century. Scholars have defined and studied militarism in different ways. While during the First World War, militarism was studied as an ideology, in the ... -
The Turkish military: principal or agent?
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2012)One of the defining features of Turkish politics has been the strong influence of the military in civilian politics. However, since the early 2000s, we have seen unprecedented developments, substantially constraining the ...
