This study argues that the United States Information Agency carried out an intense public diplomacy program in Turkey between 1960 and 1980 in order to ameliorate the U.S. image among the Turkish urban elite, especially among ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the economic impacts of Turkey’s environmental regulation based on emission trading schemes in the post-Kyoto world. The dissertation is composed of two main parts. The ...

Diverse economic growth rates of countries have engaged the attention of economists. Recently, researchers have studied the role of financial development to explain the cross-country differences in growth. In particular, ...

This paper analyzes the effects of a university reform on gender gap in higher education. It explores the university reform in Turkey over the past years as a natural experiment. The university reform has two important ...

This dissertation consists of three essays on international economics. In the rst chapter, the long-run e ects of trade liberalization and trade-induced skill-biased technological change on wages and unemployment are ...

This thesis analyzes the question of how European transnational capital affects the EU’s enlargement to Turkey. It adopts Neo-Gramscianist critical theory, and it looks at the links between the applicant states’ compliance ...

This thesis aims to understand what motivates energy policies of Turkey with respect to three main actors in the world system, the USA, the EU and Russia in the light of two international relations theories; neorealism ...

Maintaining civilian control over military constitutes the classical problematique of the civil-military relations (CMR) scholarship. Besides, the relationship between military and civilians are taken as conflictual. ...

This thesis aims to analyze the effects of Turkey’s membership candidacy to European Union on Turkish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with respect to the European Union’s (EU) pre- accession strategy and agenda ...

Since the end of the Cold War, Turkey and South Korea have been actively participating in peace operations. Both states have many commonalities, such as substantial economic and military capabilities, considerable regional ...