Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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Heidegger, the presocratics, and the history of being
(Societas Philosophia Classica, 2001)In this paper, I place Heidegger's interpretation of Prescocratic thought in the wider context of his critique of metaphysics and his conception of the history of being. The task which Heidegger puts before himself, I ... -
Heidegger's Anaximander: to xpeΩn and the history of being
(Societas Philosophia Classica, 2002)In his lecture course on Parmenides, Heidegger calls Anaximander, Parmenides and Heraclitus primordial thinkers (anfangliche Denker). He makes a distinction between early thinkers and primordial thinkers. Not every early ... -
Heidegger’s reading of Parmenides : on being and thinking the same
(Societas Philosophia Classica, 2003)The purpose of this article is to provide a unity to Heidegger's later reading of Parmenides. In the winter semester 1942-1943, Heidegger delivered a lecture course which was published posthumously under the title Parmenides ... -
Sacralisation: defying the politicisation of security in Turkey
(Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2018)In early 2016, a small town called Kilis on Turkey’s southeast border became the target of unguided short-range rockets originating from an ISIS-controlled zone in Syria. Continuing over a five-month period, the attacks ... -
Surplus creation and extraction under structural adjustment: Turkey, 1980-1992
(Sage Publications, Inc., 1995)Based on the classical notion that resolution of the distributional conflict preceded accumulation and production, the paper addresses the changing patterns of surplus creation and extraction under Turkish structural ... -
Naval security in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean: a Turkish view
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To instill fear or love: Terrorist groups and the strategy of building reputation
(SAGE, 2018)Why does one terrorist group employ actions that win the hearts and minds of its constituency while another resorts to tactics that alienate their support? The paper investigates terrorist groups’ strategy of building ... -
La costruzione di un ethos Europeo condiviso: alcuni spunti habermasiani
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Ethos europeo ed eutanasia. Un’analisi comparata tra Italia e Turchia
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Structure, agents and discourse in managing economic crises: the case of Greece, 2009-2017
(International Relations Council of Turkey (UİK-IRCT), 2018)This article focuses on the discursive frames used by policy entrepreneurs in Greece as they attempted to deal with the 2009 crisis and analyses the role played by discourse in handling the crisis’ consequences. Adopting ... -
Leverages and constraints for Turkish foreign policy in syrian war: a structural balance approach
(Forsnet, 2018)Various balance and imbalance conditions among the U.S., Russia, Turkey, Syria, and Iran are analyzed to present how changes in the direction of conflict and cooperation disturb the regional balance in the Syria conflict. ... -
Securing the postcolonial
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This chapter considers the following question: Should ‘security’ be a point of departure when thinking about the postcolonial? In considering this question, I will focus on recent debates on cosmopolitanism and security. ... -
Dispersion, diaspora identity and belonging: A case study on the Turkish migrants in Copenhagen
(IGI Global, 2018)Turks are one of those migrants living in Europe with constituting majority of the migrants in the country of residence and Denmark is among those countries that opened its doors to Turks since 1960‘s. In this research, I ... -
Widening the world of IR: A typology of homegrown theorizing
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2018)It is rare that a recognized voice from non-Western world makes an impression in International Relations theory. While a few studies have looked at the structural and institutional constraints that contribute to such lack ... -
Understanding new middle eastern leadership: an operational code approach
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Political Islam and Islamist organizations have broadly gained strength across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the post-Cold War era. Following the Arab uprisings, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), generally viewed ... -
Building a competitive authoritarian regime: state-business relations in the AKP’s Turkey
(Routledge, 2017-11-14)The most recent global wave of democratic reversal is marked by executive takeovers. Politically motivated interventions in domestic markets aimed at restructuring the underlying power dynamics in society have been part ... -
EU foreign policy and ‘perceived coherence’: the case of Kosovo
(Routledge, 2018-10-11)To what extent has the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy been coherent in the Western Balkans? Moreover, is EU policy behaviour seen as coherent by local stakeholders? Such questions are of high significance regarding ... -
Conceptions of ‘the international’ beyond the core: Turkey in the post-Cold War era
(Routledge, 2018)International relations (IR) scholarship rests on a conception of ‘the international’ based on the experiences of core actors. A burgeoning literature has asked what IR would look like if non-core actors’ conceptions of ... -
Domestic threats and foreign policy agenda: a security perspective on Turkey’s Iran policy
(Routledge, 2018-11-30)Starting from the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s regime had increasingly been presented as the external source of Islamic fundamentalist movements in Turkey, leading to the establishment of a security-driven atmosphere in ... -
Different paths to regional hegemony: national identity contestation and foreign economic strategy in Russia and Turkey
(Routledge, 2018-10-01)IPE scholars have extensively studied regionalisms in various parts of the globe. However, little has been done to explore the role that countries with regional leadership aspirations have played in fostering regional ...
