Browsing Dept.of International Relations - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Ahıska Turks and Koreans in post-Soviet Kazakstan and Uzbekistan : the making of diaspora identity and culture
(Bilkent University, 2006)After the collapse of the Soviet Union, all of the newly independent governments in Central Asia aimed at nationalizing or indigenizing the territories under their control and rectifying what many saw as decades of ... -
An analysis of the development and the importance of oil and gas resources in Russia and their relationship to the Russian economic growth and foreign policy
(Bilkent University, 2008)This dissertation analyzes the development of the oil and gas sector in Russia with a view to understand the role of these assets on the formation of Russian state interests and consequent policy prioritization, both at ... -
The analysis of Turkey as a non-Western and emerging humanitarian actor
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)This dissertation explores Turkey as a non-Western and emerging humanitarian actor with respect to its humanitarian policies, goals, actors, and practices. In the literature of International Relations (IR), although there ... -
The analysis of Turkey's approach to peace operations
(Bilkent University, 2007)This dissertation aims at analyzing the motivations that lie at the roots of Turkey’s involvement in peace operations, mostly organized under the leadership of the United Nations in the post-Cold War era. The main ... -
Changing alliance and cooperation dynamics : globalization, nation-state and the threat
(Bilkent University, 2010)This dissertation is a study about the form and dynamics of inter-state cooperation and alignment against transnational terrorism epitomized by Al-Qaeda. Since international security is traditionally regarded as the ... -
Clash of discourses: the US national debate on relations with Haiti, 1789-2004
(Bilkent University, 2008)This dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of the rhetorical forms and frames that have shaped United States-Haitian relations, departing from the predominantly action-oriented perspective of international ... -
Climate change and international institutions: agents of global environmental cooperation
(Bilkent University, 1997)The major focus of this dissertation is the global climate change issue which threatens the international ecosystem as the most complex and unique environmental problem today. The study attempts to contribute to the ... -
Coherence and effectiveness of EU Foreign Policy: the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo
(Bilkent University, 2018-11)This thesis aims to analyse the coherence and effectiveness of the European Union (EU) foreign policy by focusing on two crucial cases that shaped the emergence of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the ... -
Conceptions of modernity in security studies: the study of security in the Global South
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Security Studies has portrayed states in the Global South as a threat to international security and overlooked insecurities experienced by people and social groups in the Global South. In security studies, security in ... -
The conceptions of “the international” in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2018-03)In the last several decades, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has been problematized because of its limitations in engaging with non-core actors. A burgeoning literature in IR has underscored that the prevalent ... -
Constructing security in colombia : the case of FARC
(Bilkent University, 2017-06)This study introduces a new framework for critical security studies to examine the production of security issues, particularly in hybrid democracies. Like the other critical security approaches, this new framework has a ... -
A constructivist analysis on balancing : the impact of US war on terror on China and Russia
(Bilkent University, 2012)This dissertation provides a constructivist analysis of balancing under unipolarity by examining the question of how the US war on terror has influenced China’s and Russia’s tendency to balance against the United States. ... -
A critique of the international criminal court : The Making of the “International Community” through international criminal prosecutions
(Bilkent University, 2015-07)It is not “the state” but a more diffuse and amorphous power which revitalizes the twin legacies of the state of containment and disciplinary supervision of problematic populations at the global level. The International ... -
The effectiveness of international regimes in states with low internal capacity : a study of international refugee regime in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan
(Bilkent University, 2013)Nearly one out of the six states in the world is regarded with low internal capacity by the Failed State Index 2012. However, having a priori assumption on states’ internal capacity to take decisions and implement them ... -
Effects of economic sanctions on political beliefs of the targeted countries’ leaders
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)International organizations, individual states, and groups of states increasingly often use economic sanctions an alternative tool of foreign policy. While there are multiple studies analyzing effectiveness and economic, ... -
The English school theory of international relations and peacebuilding : an analysis of peacebuilding interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone through the world society framework
(Bilkent University, 2015-12)Although the world society (WS) framework appears to be an important cornerstone in the theoretical triad of the English School (ES), it is the least developed concept amongst others (Buzan 2004). This dissertation's ... -
Ethno-national conflict and international relations : the case of the Kosovo
(Bilkent University, 2005)The end of the Cold War was followed by an increase in the influence of ethnonational conflicts in the world politics. International Relations theories have contributed to the study of inter-state war. The question raised ... -
The European system and the Egyptian question 1827-1841 : a study in the theory of balance of power
(Bilkent University, 1996)This work aims at explaining the events of the Egyptian Question through the tools of balance of power theory. It is the main hypothesis of this work that the Egyptian Question affected the balance of power in Europe, ... -
European Union and Turkey: mobility and in/security
(Bilkent University, 2021-10)International Political Sociology (IPS) literature mainly focuses on the actions of the European Union (EU) in their analyses of externalization in the Mediterranean, examining how border security policies and practices ... -
Europeanization or not? Turkish foreign policy and the Cyprus problem, 1999-2014
(Bilkent University, 2015-02)This thesis sought to illuminate how the Europeanization process takes place, in the context of enlargement by providing empirical findings regarding the EU’s potential to impact on the foreign policies of candidate ...
