Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Critical Investigations into the international
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Kurdish Issue in June 2011 Elections: Continuity or Change in Turkey’s Democratization?
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06)This article analyzes the Kurdish issue in various aspects before the June 2011 elections. The main research questions include what constitutes the major grievances of the Kurds; how the ongoing conflict is framed as ... -
Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinity of the EU before and after the Arab Spring: A Gender Analysis of Euro-Mediterranean Security Relations
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In the academic literature on EU – southern Mediterranean relations, a focal point of neglect has been the gendered dimension of Euro-Mediterranean relations. This article argues that the Euro-Mediterranean space has ... -
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 ... -
The USA-Turkey-Middle East: From the 20th Century to the Present
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study compares the cold war period and contemporary issues which involve the triangle with a focus on Iraq, Syria and Egypt. It traces turning points in the 20th century, present dilemmas and conclusions in a state ... -
The Politics of Austerity and Public Policy Reform in the EU
(Wiley, 2014)The European Union (EU) is at a critical juncture that will either trigger further integration or reinforce a mode of intergovernmental cooperation. The spread of market pressure to a growing number of states demonstrates ... -
Water scarcity, conflict, and migration: a comparative analysis and reappraisal
(SAGE Publications, 2012)How should we characterise the relations between environmental scarcity, confl ict, and migration? Most academic and policy analyses conclude that scarcities of environmental resources can have signifi cant impacts upon ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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
(Elsevier, 2005-08)
