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Empowerment of the executive : impact of decrees having force of law on Turkish politics
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This study aims at analyzing the trends of empowerment of executive and
rationalization of parliament and their instruments.
Executive -legislative relations in different government systems and the
concepts like rationalization ...
The problem of Northern Ireland as a case study of first world nationalism
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This thesis analyzes the challenges presented by ethnic movements in the first
world to the sovereignty rights of nation-states. Modern states, that erased the former
identities of their native populations, saw with the ...
Three faces of the legitimacy crisis of liberal democracy : identity, rationality and universality
(Bilkent University, 2001)
The thesis investigates the question of legitimacy crisis of liberal democracy as
manifested by the processes, debates, concepts, popular demands and emerging
new identities and forms of politics along the globalization ...
Against its modernist grounds: rethinking clientelism
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This thesis is an attempt to highlight an arbitrariness and vagueness in the
academic usage of the concept of clientelism. It is argued that these deficiencies in
the usage of the concept arise from a bias inherent to ...
Westernization, modernization and Turkish-Arab relations during Democrat Party era
(Bilkent University, 2001)
Academic studies on Turkish foreign policy claim that Turkey’s foreign policy
objectives after the transition to a multiparty democracy indicate cleavages with the
mono-party period. According to these studies, while the ...
Kazakhstan : transition to democracy?
(Bilkent University, 2001)
Thıs thesis focuses on the Kazakhstani way of transition to democracy.
After having analysed the history of Kazakhstan, the author examines social,
national, political and state structures, political leaders and international ...
Turkey and the European Union : other complementary options?
(Bilkent University, 2001-09)
Is Turkey’s perception of membership in the European Union (EU) as an ‘ultimate
goal’ justified? Are there complementary options supporting Turkey’s membership
in the Union? These questions are the focus of the present ...