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    Determinants of economic growth in Turkey
    (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1998) Togan, Sübidey; Shafik, N.
    Rapid, sustained economic growth is one of the main objectives of Turkish policymakers. Because total factor productivity plays a big role in growth, policies that increase education levels, achieve more equitable distribution of income, and secure high rates of investment are essential. In addition, prudent macroeconomic policies are needed to avoid balance of payments crises, eliminate industrial incentives that inhibit competition, and further lower nominal and effective rates of protection.
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    Europe and Turkey: Does religion matter?
    (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008) Criss, Nur Bilge; Jung, D.; Raudvere, C.
    Ever since Claude Lévi-Strauss, a social anthropologist, introduced the term “l’égo et l’autre” it has become very fashionable to apply the “Self” and the “Other” to international affairs as well as to history. Shortly thereafter, concepts such as “identity politics” or the “politics of identity” began to fill research agendas. Although there is nothing wrong with mapping identities, it has certain methodological drawbacks for scholarship. Many times overemphasizing identities, in an effort to neatly categorize them, results in defining peoples and events based solely on ethnic/racial, national, or religious straitjackets. This is not very different from applying the principles of classifying botanical fauna to the human fora, which does not necessarily contribute to our knowledge, especially in geographies where religious/linguistic/ethnic identities overlap. Cosimo de Medici (“The Great,” Duke of Florence, banker, 1519–1603), one of the great men of the Renaissance once said, “I am human, so nothing about humanity is alien to me” (quoted in Çaykara 2005: 373). His statement makes sense today only if we remember the connection between the word “other” and its Latin version “alienus.” Today, despite all the hype of globalization, humanistic and political cosmopolitanism is absent. The fast pace of our world also brings about simplistic and categorical sociopolitical descriptions that are often hostile and divisive.
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    An inventory of Turkey’s international trade and investment agreements
    (Springer, Dordrecht, 1996) Togan, Sübidey; Kuyvenhoven, A.; Memedovic, O.; van der Windt, N.
    Turkey has one of the largest economies in the Middle East. It also has a border with the European Union (EU) which is its main trading partner. As Table 10.1 shows, the EU accounted for more than half of Turkish exports while the share of Turkish imports from the EU was over 40 per cent at the beginning of the 1990s.
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    Opening up the Turkish economy in the context of the customs union with EU
    (Center for International Economics, 1997) Togan, S.
    The paper consider the Turkey-EU customs union (CU). After reviewing briefly the developments in Turkey-EU relations the paper studies the structure of protection that prevailed prior to the formation of the CU as well as structure of protection that will prevail when all of the adjustments required by the CU will be completed. The resource allocation effects of the CU are studied using nominal and effective protection rates. Besides the liberalization of trade the CU introduces new rules and disciplines that will effect the functioning of markets in Turkey. With the formation of CU Turkey is confronted with reductions in annual tax revenue. The paper studies the possible effects of tax revenue losses as well as the effects of the CU on FDI in-flows.
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    Prof. Dr. M. Tuğrul Arat'ın hayatı ve Türkiye-Avrupa birliği ilişkilerine katkıları
    (Bilkent University, 2023) Akın, Ataberk; Erbay, Şevval; Hayta, Yusuf Kutay; Nalçadan, Zeynep; Oktay, Hüseyin Ege
    Türkiye 1856 Paris Antlaşması’ndan beri Avrupalı ülkeler arasında olmaya çalışmaktadır. Bu süreç özellikle 1985-2000 yılları arasında hız kazandı. Bu yıllarda Prof. Dr. Tuğrul Arat DPT’de AB ile İlişkiler Genel Müdürü olarak görev yaptı. Bu araştırmada Tuğrul Arat ile yapılan röportajdan, kendisi adına yazılan bir kitaptan ve kendi yazılarından yararlanılarak kendisinin hayatı anlatıldı. 1939 yılında Ankara’da doğan Tuğrul Arat, hayatını başta Ankara, Kayseri ve İstanbul olmak üzere birçok şehirde geçirdi. Hukuk alanındaki bütün eğitimini Türkiye’de alan Arat, döneminde akademisyenlere duyulan ihtiyaç sebebiyle akademide kalmaya ve kendisi gibi akademisyenler yetiştirmeye karar verdi. Birçok farklı görevde çalışarak Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliği ile olan ilişkileri ve Türkiye'nin AB’ye katılma süreci üzerine yapılan araştırmalara katkı sağladı. Bu süreçte akademik çalışmalarıyla birlikte bir yandan da devlet kurumlarında, enstitülerde ve topluluklarda aktif rol alarak çalışmalarını devam ettirdi. Arat, günümüzde hâlâ çalışmalarına devam ederken yetiştirdiği akademisyenler de birçok yeni hukukçu yetiştirmektedir.