Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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Frame extension, trade union identities and wage politics: evidence from Sweden
(Oxford University Press, 2011)Drawing on frame theory, this paper examines how policy entrepreneurs within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Landsorganisationen i Sverige (LO) embarked on a campaign to extend an exclusively class-based solidarity ... -
Turkey's foreign policy implementation in sub-Saharan Africa: A post-international approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Turkey's activism in Africa has been extensively noted. It has been argued that non-state actors like business and civil society organizations take part in Turkeys Africa initiative. Nevertheless, state/non-state ... -
The Politics of Studying Securitization: The Copenhagen School in Turkey
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given ... -
Timor-Leste's foreign policy: securing state identity in the post-independence period
(German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, 2014-10-20)This paper examines some of the major ideational aspects of Timor-Leste’s foreign policy orientation in the post-independence period. Drawing upon the constructivist accounts of state behaviour, the paper situates ... -
Exploring what is good about security? Politics of Security during the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)In the last decade, students of Critical Security Studies (CSS) have been increasingly studying and understanding the concept of security in negative terms. The way they choose to analyse security instils a one-sided ... -
Transgovernmentalism Meets Security: Police Liaison Officers, Terrorism and Statist Transnationalism
(Wiley, 2010)Studies of transgovernmental activities have enhanced our understanding of changing global politics, but their claims have not been fully investigated with respect to the security realm. Therefore, this article first ... -
We are not barbarians: Gender Politics and Turkey's Quest for the West
(SAGE Publications, 2015)Turkey’s policy-makers have historically aimed to position Turkey within the West by convincing the latter that Turkey meets the ‘standards’ of the West, that they ‘are not barbarians’. This article aims to offer a gender ... -
Transnational Labour Solidarity and Social Movement Unionism: Insights from and beyond a Women Workers' Strike in Turkey
(Blackwell Publishing, 2011-07)Through an analysis of solidarity across borders and social groups in connection with and beyond a strike on the part primarily of women workers at a foreignowned factory in Turkey’s Antalya Free Zone, this article ... -
Water-Soluble Non-Polymeric Electrospun Cyclodextrin Nanofiber Template for the Synthesis of Metal Oxide Tubes by Atomic Layer Deposition
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)We report on the suitability of water-soluble non-polymeric electrospun cyclodextrin (CD) nanofiber templates by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) to yield metal oxide tubes. To demonstrate this, water-soluble electrospun ... -
Turkey's 'New' Foreign Policy towards Eurasia
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Two geographers specializing in Turkey’s international relations examine the reframing of foreign policy issues under the country’s Justice and Development Party (JDP; also known by its Turkish acronym AKP), in power ... -
The reform-security dilemma in democratic transitions: the Turkish experience as model?
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)In considering the future of budding Middle Eastern democracies, past experience and scholarship show that a possible outcome for even the most “successful” ones is some form of imperfect democracy. Based within ... -
Religious Discrimination and International Crises: International Effects of Domestic Inequality
(Wiley, 2013)This paper explores religious discrimination against ethnic groups and foreign policy crisis linkages as part of the broader foreign policy approaches developed by McGowan and Shapiro (1973) and James and Özdamar (2005, ... -
Quantifying intelligence cooperation: The United States International Intelligence Behavior (USIIB) dataset
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This report describes the creation of the United States International Intelligence Behavior dataset (USIIB). The USIIB represents the first collection of event data specifically intended for exploring in a quantifiable ... -
Trust in World Politics: Converting "Identity" into a Source of Security through Trust-Learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)In the discipline of international relations, the concept of trust has been theorised in two ways: the 'rationalist' approach and the 'normative' approach. This article aims to show that these approaches do not adequately ... -
From good neighbor to model: Turkey's changing roles in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
(International Relations Council of Turkey (UİK-IRCT), 2014)The recent Arab uprisings have forced many actors to reconsider their positions regarding Middle Eastern politics. Role theory provides a viable tool to explain changes in actors’ foreign policy behaviors, presuming that ... -
The Conflict Resolution and Counterterrorism Dilemma: Turkey Faces its Kurdish Question
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This article considers the relationship between two processes-conflict resolution and counterterrorism-which conceptually share many common points, yet in practice do not necessarily proceed together easily towards a common ... -
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)When ethnic minority parties are excluded from government coalitions, are group attributes such as religion related to the groups' use of political violence? We argue that extremist factions within minority groups make use ... -
Future of Turkey-EU Relations: A Civilisational Discourse
(Elsevier, 2005-05)Should or can Turkey join the European Union (EU)? This paper argues that there are three alternative scenarios of the EU decision to grant membership to Turkey: ‘privileged relationship offer,’ ‘wait and see attitude,’ ... -
On the futures of sovereignty
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A Divided Government, an Ideological Parliament, and an Insecure Leader: Turkey's Indecision about Joining the Iraq War
(Wiley, 2013)Objectives On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a government motion that would involve Turkey in the Iraq war and allow U.S. forces to use Turkish territory in an offensive against Iraq. This decision has been ...
