Browsing by Author "Biltekin, Gonca"

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Introduction: Widening the world of IR
(Routledge, 2018) Aydınlı, Ersel; Biltekin, Gonca; Aydınlı, Ersel; Biltekin, Gonca
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Non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces' political power : a "military in society" approach
(2007) Biltekin, Gonca
This thesis is an attempt to understand the non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces’ political power. For that purpose, the thesis looks at theories of power and relevant civil-military relations literature and illustrates that the current civil-military relations literature employs an institution-based formal decisionmaking approach to military’s political power, where non-material sources of armed forces political power is mostly overlooked. Moreover, current literature presumes the existence of a conflictual relationship between the military and the society where interests of the society and the military clash. Therefore, there is a theoretical gap which makes it problematic to study armies like Turkish Armed Forces, which enjoy a long-term and considerable support from their societies. In order to provide for an answer to such a gap, the thesis develops a “military in society” approach and establishes that the political power of the Turkish Armed Forces emanates from its distinctive relationship with its society which has historical, cultural, social and discursive dimensions.
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A Pilot study of quantifying Turkey s foreign affairs: Data generation, challenges, and preliminary analysis
(Dış Politika ve Barış Araştırmaları Merkezi, İhsan Doğramacı Barış Vakfı, 2013) Tüzüner, Musa; Biltekin, Gonca
This paper provides a simple introduction to event data analysis, a quantitative data collection and analysis approach that has been used extensively for compiling broad datasets of foreign policy and other international behaviors. The authors define the steps undertaken in creating the Turkish Foreign Affairs Event Dataset (TFAED). This pilot study, which uses a single news source and covers a 23-year period (1990-2013) of foreign affairs in Turkey, was completed to evaluate the feasibility, time, cost, and possible problems that might be encountered with a full-scope study. The paper describes the obstacles encountered during the pilot study s initial phases and discusses a sample of the preliminary findings. The paper concludes with potential uses of the dataset.
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A typology of homegrown theorizing
(Routledge, 2018) Aydınlı, Ersel; Biltekin, Gonca; Aydınlı, Ersel; Biltekin, Gonca
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Understanding Turkish foreign affairs in the 21st century : a homegrown theorizing attempt
(2014) Biltekin, Gonca
For Turkish scholars, understanding especially the last decade of Turkey’s international politics has been a great challenge. Answering fundamental questions, -and many others-, requires collection of reliable, complete and uniform data and interpreting them on conceptual terms. The purpose of this thesis is to understand and explain Turkey’s foreignl affairs in a holistic way and offer a homegrown model based on original data. Building an original event dataset, this thesis accounts for the empirical observations made out of Turkey’s international practice and conceptualizes it as a complex system. It accounts for foreign policy change in complex systems, introduces concepts such as domestic responsivity, domestic, international nodes as well as intermestic and international nexus, and puts forward a helical model of power accumulation, as an outcome of successful foreign policy change.