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Item Restricted 1980’ler ve 1990’lardaki siyasi ve toplumsal olayların Türk metal müziğine etkisi(Bilkent University, 2022) Yılmaz, Sıla; Aközlü, Şevval; Özke, Melisa; Kayış, Ekin; Numanoğlu, Yağmur1980 sonrası küreselleşen dünya ve Türkiye'de yaşanan toplumsal ve siyasi olaylar toplumu ve müzik endüstrisini etkilemiştir. Bu bağlamda Türkiye’de yeni yeni ortaya çıkmaya başlayan metal müzik, bu olaylardan etkilenmiş ve bu siyasi ve toplumsal olaylar dönemin metal gruplarının müzikal yaşantılarına yansımıştır. Bu süreçte yaşanan her bir olaydan etkilenen ve bu etkilerin dönütünü şarkılarıyla yansıtmaya çalışan Türk metal grupları Türkiye’deki ve dünyadaki çeşitli toplumsal ve siyasi olayları şarkılarında anlatmaya çalışmıştır. Bu araştırmada Dr. Skull, Metalium ve Radical Noise gibi gruplarla bizzat yapılan röportajlardan, dönemin gazete haberlerinden, metal müziğe karşı duyulan ön yargılardan ve baskı ortamından, sosyolojik ve siyasi etmenlerin metal müziğe olan etkisinden bahsedilmektedir.Item Open Access An action research report on the rising democracy discourse in 2000's Turkey: does Eros contour the demos?(Elsevier, 2007) Cindoglu, D.; Boynukara, A.; Akyuz, S.; Bekaroğlu, E. A.This article conceptualizes gender equity and sexual liberty issues that most of the literature on democracy and democratization in Turkey fails to address. The major focus of the article is on the convergent and divergent positions of the rising democratization discourse in contemporary Turkey. When the democratization discourses of different political groups are analyzed, we see that the convergent points consist of legal and constitutional changes that aim at political and economic liberalization, while the divergent points include liberalization in the private sphere and engaging in gender equity and sexual liberty issues. Therefore, we argue that it is crucial to analyze gender equity and sexual liberty issues with more dynamic concepts such as globalization and the EU accession process of Turkey rather than the essentialist ones like Islam.Item Open Access Changing alliance and cooperation dynamics : globalization, nation-state and the threat(2010) Çağlar, BarışThis 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 parcel of nation-states, transnational terrorism is a conceptual new-comer to the playground of politics. Its scale of operations occurs in a security environment structurally different from that of the Cold War. The recurrent reason given for debating the role and relevance of alliances in regard to counterterrorism is discussed in the literature to be a systemic change in world affairs marked by the end of the Cold War and globalization. The latter must be disaggregated to determine the essential elements and features of the systemic differences and related threats. Does contemporary inter-state cooperation and alignment against transnational terrorism correspond to the previous alignment behaviors of states that were conducted against other states? Analyzing the evolving forms of cooperation in general and the form of cooperation in alliances is the aim of the study. Through a three-pronged analytical discussion based on the factors of globalization, unit-level preferences and the features of the threat itself, the study concludes that cooperation form in general and in alliances in particular - including the form of cooperation in NATO- is experiencing a shift from a ‘defensive nature’ to a ‘security nature’. Coalitions of the Willing type of cooperation appears to be the re-emergent form of inter-state security cooperation, especially against ambiguous threats such as transnational terrorism that erodes the distinction between internal and external threats.Item Open Access Comparative analysis of managerial values in the USA and China(Emerald Publishing, 2007) Capar, N.; Chinta, R.Purpose – China, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, has become a major tradingpartner with the USA. However, trading with Chinese involves major cultural barriers. The Chineseand US cultures differ widely in their values, which produces different attitudes and behaviors. Thisstudy purports to add to the existent knowledge on the managerial values in the USA and China byempirically comparing and contrasting these values along several dimensions.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical investigation examines the differences inmanagerial values between US and Chinese managers through independent sample t-tests based onsurvey responses from 1,741 US and 982 Chinese managers.Findings – The findings indicate that significant cultural differences exist between the two samples.Results show that US managers are more individualistic than their Chinese counterparts. Themanagerial values of the US sample are also characterized by lower power distance, uncertaintyavoidance, and work ethics than the Chinese sample.Practical implications – The findings provide support for the conventional wisdom regarding thedifferences between the US and Chinese cultures.Originality/value – The large sample sizes in the research study provide strong empirical supportto existent theory.Item Open Access A comparative study of Chinese and Turkish economic reform policies in the age of globalization(2006) Lee, Sun A.Though with different strategies and responses, yet all continue to share the same difficult task of development in this given conditions of globalizing world. My thesis compares and contrasts the reform history of China and Turkey under the overarching system of globalization as an attempt to find out better ways to achieve development. Although their socio-economic and political systems differ, China and Turkey have entered the world of globalization by launching the reform policies almost at the same time period and both faced the same elements of risks and opportunities generated by this system. My thesis utilizes the methodology of compare and contrast to examine China’s dualistic strategy of state regulation within an open economy and Turkey’s primary economic strategies based on the private enterprises to deduce that too much liberalization, especially in the field of financial market, could cause a slow-down to, if not harm, the economy. The thesis concludes with the speculation on how such success of Chinese economy could come to a halt if further liberalization especially in the form of capital account liberalization continues in the future.Item Open Access The contours of post-Cold War Turkish-American relations, (1990-2001)(2004) Tekdemir, SevinçThe nature of post-Cold War decade Turkish-American relations has largely been determined by the new strategic circumstances that also have stared to frame world politics. In this decade, new challenges and opportunities brought together new areas of cooperation for the U.S. and Turkey by strengthening their alliance within NATO. Hence, the mutual importance attributed to the relationship has flourished as a result of the essentiality of their alliance. Neither the U.S. nor Turkey could afford to lose a significant ally with whom they share common interests in the region. Furthermore, it could be argued that these allies will need each other in the future to realize their foreign policy objectives concerning the relations with the neighboring countries. Thus, the simpler approach to the thesis is analyzing the exogenous and indigenous factors that affect the character of Turkish-American relations in the post-Cold War era.Item Open Access Deterritorialization and the modern state : the case of European integration(2002) Çamyar, İsaThis thesis examines the impact of deterritorialization as an important dimension of globalization on the contemporary evolution of the modern state. The modern state has been a territorial phenomenon in the sense it has used strategical approaches to space in order to control it. The effective use of such strategies has enabled the modern state to achieve and maintain unprecedented degree of territoriality, that is a control over a physical space. However, with the rise of the trend of deterritorialization constituting the spatial logic of globalization, the territoriality of the modern state has become problematic. Thus the basic characteristics of the modern state, which have been founded in its territoriality, are being eroded under the effects of deterritorialization. The case of European Integration is analyzed to reveal the extent and scope of deterritorialization and to show how deterritorialization has challenged the territoriality of the modern state.Item Open Access Development and quality of life in Turkey: how globalization, religion, and economic growth influence individual well-being(SAGE Publications Inc., 2016) Sandıkcı, Ö.; Peterson M.; Ekici, A.; Simkins, T.Recently, scholars have been calling attention to the macro-social and institutional structures shaping development and welfare. In this study we offer a socio-temporally situated understanding of quality of life (QOL) in a developing country setting and investigate the effects of macro structures on consumer well-being. Specifically, we focus on neoliberal development (led by the business sector, rather than led or directed by the government) and examine how a neoliberal transformation of the marketplace affects consumers’ QOL perceptions. The context of our research is Turkey, a developing country that has been an avid follower of neoliberal policies since the 1990s. We focus on three key macro-social developments that have been shaping Turkish society in the past decades – globalization, religion, and economic growth – and seek to understand how these forces influence consumers’ satisfaction with life. Our study contributes to the literature on development and QOL by first, showing the moderating effect of income, and second, introducing faith and global brands as important variables in conceptualizing QOL.Item Open Access The Ecumenical Patriarchate as a global actor: Between the end of the Cold War and the Ukrainian ecclesiastical crisis(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2022-06-14) Grigoriadis, Ioannis N.Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire and the advent of republican Turkey, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has struggled to maintain its existence and its ecumenical role, despite the obstacles that the Republic of Turkey has set before it. Yet, challenges have abounded within the Orthodox world as well. The Patriarchate has viewed Russian involvement in Orthodox ecclesiastical affairs with suspicion, if not outright opposition. This is like its former stance regarding Russian involvement in Orthodox religious affairs in the Balkans and the Middle East throughout the nineteenth century. This competition has been rekindled since the end of the Cold War, as the Patriarchate has grown in importance as a global actor. The Ukrainian ecclesiastical crisis, which brought the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate to loggerheads, provides an additional opportunity to measure the extent of Russian influence on the Orthodox Church. This article explores the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the republican Turkish era and the challenges it has faced. It also examines the dynamics that have developed since the end of the Cold War in its relations with Russia and Turkey through its confrontation with the Moscow Patriarchate particularly in light of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical crisis. This study aspires to shed light on the extent of Russian influence on Orthodox ecclesiastical affairs and explore the role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the global era.Item Open Access The effect of world income on the economic performance of African countries(International Economic Society, 2007) Berument, Hakan; Ceylan, N. B.; Vural, B.This paper examines how the output growths of 37 African countries’ are affected by the output growth of the world. The connection between the world output growth and that of each African country is represented by a block recursive VAR model allowing that world output growth affects each African countries’ output but not vice versa. The response of each African country’s output growth is analyzed when one standard deviation shock is given to the world’s output growth. Our results indicate that in 6 of the 37 countries, there exists a statistically significant and permanent effect for four periods (years), and the effect is positive for 5 of them. The statistically significant effect of the shock is observed starting from the first period for 16 countries, of which the effect is positive in 13. The initial (contemporaneous) effect of the shock can be observed in the output growths of 13 African countries of which the effect is positive in 9. For the output growths of 9 countries, a statistically significant effect could not be observed.Item Open Access Exploring local and global ideals of beauty in Turkey : discourses and practices of plastic surgery patients and physicians(2008) Tarı, BernaIntrigued by an increase in demand for aesthetic operations all over the world, this study offers an in-depth investigation of plastic surgery as a consumption phenomenon. First, it looks at how local and global notions of the beautiful are negotiated in Turkey through consumption and marketing of aesthetic operations. Second, it looks at the nature of a service relationship formed between the surgeon and the patient-consumer, and how this relationship is constructed and maintained. Gazi University Hospital was chosen as the ethnographic research site. Results indicate that beauty is perceived as something that individuals improve, upgrade, and refine through time. Potential patients tend to have one of two ideals: The individual’s own younger appearance or someone else’s appearance. The ideal presented in the media is changing, making the target both difficult to achieve and difficult to catch. Here it is also possible to talk about a marketing process initiated and maintained by doctors and aesthetic medical companies at a global level. Neither the dominant logic nor the new logic of marketing can satisfactorily explain patient-consumers’ behavior in this context, where boundaries for the product cannot be established and there is considerably higher risk compared to other purchasing situations. It is possible to talk about doctor branding in this context, where brand positioning and brand image cannot be static since doctors are also people. Moreover, patient satisfaction has longitudinal and interpersonal characteristics since it involves the approval of others.Item Restricted Galeri Baraz Ve Türkiyede özel sanat galericiliği(Bilkent University, 2024) Nasırlı, Ahmet Ozan; Uğurlu, Erdem; Varnalı, Kerem; Özpınar, Leyla; Biçeroğlu, YasinÖzel sanat galericiliği, Türkiye tarihinde aslen 1970’li yıllarda aktiflik kazanmaya başlamıştır. 70’li yıllar öncesinde düzenlenen sergiler tam anlamıyla sanat galerisi olma vasfına erişmemiş, özel sanat galericiliği özellikle 80’li yıllara girilmesiyle ülkenin durumu ve ekonomik liberalleşme ile birlikte büyüme yaşamıştır. Yahşi Baraz tarafından kurulup ve halen aktif olarak faaliyetlerini sürdüren Galeri Baraz, 1975 yılında faaliyetlerine başlamıştır. Kurulduğu yıldan günümüze kadar Türk sanatı ve galericiliğinin gelişmesi ve tanınmasında önemli katkılarda bulunmuştur. 2000 ve sonrası yıllarda ise, gelişen teknoloji ve dijitalleşmenin etkisiyle, Türkiye’de sanat önem kazanmıştır. Sanat piyasasında yaşanan hareketlenme, büyük şirketlerin ve vakıfların sanat eserlerine ayırdıkları bütçenin artmasına sebep olmuştur. Sanat koleksiyonerleri ve özel sanat galerilerinin sayısında önemli bir artış meydana gelmiştir.Item Open Access Global transformations versus local dynamics in Istanbul(Elsevier, 2000-10) Erkip, F.Istanbul, as the greatest metropolis of Turkey and one of the great cities of the world, has been rapidly transforming in recent years. This paper analyzes various aspects of this transformation to lead to an understanding of an appropriate strategy for metropolitan governance. Recent politicial developments indicate an apparent fragmentation of Istanbul citizens into segments with different expectations and life-styles that make new strategies of governance urgent and vital, yet harder. Istanbul is an arena waiting for the invasion of different citizen groups with different ethnic, religious and communal backgrounds. Although Turkish urban policy has never been welfare-oriented, market and outward orientation has never been so dominant. Policy issues seem to help the articulation with the world economy and to make Istanbul more attractive for foreign capital. Urban politics and government cover only a limited area of urban dynamics in Istanbul. A new approach to governance requires a strategic change in the state of mind of elected municipal officials towards the integration of various communities into governing practices, regardless of their bases of formation. Recent developments give clues about the governance potential in Turkish metropolises. Istanbul, with its urgent problems, may constitute a case study for other cities in Turkey.Item Open Access Globalization and state transformation : the Ottoman-Turkish case(2004) Çiçek, ÖzgürThis thesis analyses the transformation of the Ottoman-Turkish state under the influence of globalization in a historical context. It is an attempt for operationalization of the transformationist argument in the Globalization and state literature. The Ottoman-Turkish state had been in the process of transforming into initially modern national state then a modern nation state during the era of first and second globalizations. Now, in the face of third globalization, it is in the process of transforming into a liberal democratic state.Item Open Access Globalization in the neighborhood: from the nation-state to Bilkent center(Sage Publications Ltd., 2000) Helvacioglu, B.The main premise of this article is that globalization is both a universal phenomenon with common characteristic tendencies and a condition of plurality defined by the historical and geographical specificities of particular localities. This paradoxical point is explained in the theoretical context of the spatial configuration of globalization. The main concepts used to that end are Robertson's notion of glocalization, Castells' notion of polarization, Sassen's notion of global city and Appadurai's conception of imaginary worlds. The main objective is to elucidate, both in theory and in practice, a series of contradictions, ambiguities and irregularities that result from particular articulations of global and local developments. Turkey is used as a case study in order to analyze the practical implications of globalization(s) at both the national and local levels and at the level of neighborhoods. Borrowing from Appadurai's distinction between a locality and a neighborhood, the article argues that an empirical analysis of globalization(s) in neighborhoods helps us problematize the unsettling consequences of practical modes of glocalizations. Such problematization is necessary to understand the universal condition of globalization as an open-ended process that shapes and is shaped by particular cultural, political and spatial patterns.Item Open Access Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discourses(Routledge, 2003) Keyman, E. F.; Icduygu, A.In recent years, civil society has become one of the most important concerns of academic and public discourse. It would not be a mistake to propose that today there is a strong, effective and even over-glorified talk about and a global agenda for civil society and its role in the process of creating a better and humane world. In this talk and agenda the main intention is to reinvigorate and strengthen civil society politically, organizationally and normatively as a counter- hegemonic and resistance movement against the state-centric world. This paper argues that Turkey does not constitute an exception in this context. Rather, it provides an illuminating case-study in which the crisis of the state-centric modernity has given rise to the elevation of civil society to the status of being an exteremely important actor and arena for the democratization of the state-society relations. However, on the basis of the three-year-long research (1999-2002) we have done on 'the impacts of globalization on Turkey', the paper also argues that the role of civil society in the process of democratization should be considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition, insofar as it contains both democratic and essentialist discourses about citizenship and identity. In order to substantiale these arguments, the paper will first outline the internal and external factors that have paved the way to the emergence and the increasing importance of civil society in Turkey, and then will shift its attention to the question of 'the use and the abuse of civil society'. In seeking a proper answer to this question, the paper will focus on the discourses and strategies of different civil society organizations about state, society, citizenship and identity in Turkey.Item Open Access The impact of globalization on national security : the Turkish case(2002) Tağma, Halit Mustafa EminThis thesis analyzes the impact of globalization processes on the understanding and implementation of National Security in modern states. It is understood that modern states are in a process of transformation that conventional approaches have difficulty in explaining. Parallel to this way of thinking, in this thesis it will be attempted to show that the understanding and implementation of National Security as a basic characteristic of modern states is transforming. The case of the Turkish modern state is analyzed to reveal the extent and scope of the impact of globalization on the understanding and implementation of National Security. In the conclusion it is stated that the Turkish State is defining certain developments caused by globalization as threats to its national security and that the Turkish State is re-structuring itself to cope with them.Item Open Access The impacts of global crises on developing economies: the case of Turkey(1999) Tekindor, SevinçIn this thesis, after explaining the development of Asian crisis, an attempt is made to show how the Asian crisis affected the Turkish economy within the framework of deficiencies of developing countries during the economic globalization process. Here, it is aigued that globalization in itself is not a bad thing for developing countries, but rather, ‘imperfect globalization’ creates problems for them as the recent Asian crisis demonstrated. Although the Asian crisis did not cause total collapse in the Tmkish economy, it triggered discussions about overhauling of the current economic policies. Without structural adjustments and revision of outmoded mechanisms, no country can be able to catch up with developed countries and benefit from riclmess that globalization promises to bring.Item Open Access International commercial arbitration as an alternative dispute solving mechanism and its role in the Turkish judiciary system(2006) Öncel, SinanGlobalization has been leading to enormous changes in the world order and economy. Global market economy needs a legal system to define and protect the rights of both national and international investors against unjust competition and jurisdiction.As one of the main pillar of globalization, free movement of capital and security of capital is vital for the international investors. Legal aspect of securitization of capital is very significant especially when a dispute arise between foreign investors and state due to mistrust to local courts and complexity of the legal system. Hence, international commercial arbitration became an alternative dispute settlement mechanism. In this study, after introducing milestones for the development of international commercial arbitration in 20th century, main features and international arbitration institutions and their rules are focused to demonstrate international structure and arbitration models. On the basis of international dimension of the issue, the role and function of international commercial arbitration in Turkish Judiciary System is elaborated through focusing on Constitutional amendments, laws and legal interpretations. While concentrating on Turkish legal system, concession agreements will mainly stressed through some cases. In this study, concept of public interest and debate on “foreign element” are also covered.Item Open Access International terrorism in the age of globalization(2002) Aksoy, EceThis thesis analyzes the concept of terrorism in the age of globalization. Terrorism, which has been motivated by ideological, religious and national reasons, has added to its concern issues like inequality, injustice, dissatisfaction and antiglobalist movements, due to development and technology in the world. In order to clarify this shift in the policy, the concepts of terrorism and globalization are first explained as distinct issues. Terrorism has been globalized because of modernization, developments in technology, communication and the ease in transportation. Thus, globalization has started to serve terrorism, while with its positive effects it became helpful in the fight against terrorism. The connection of globalization to terrorism has been explained in this respect. As the previous tools of diplomacy and military measures started to lose their validity, international cooperation and law have emerged as the tool to fight against terrorism. Since terrorism is a phenomenon that cannot be totally abolished, the best way to minimize terrorism is the use of international law, with necessary organizations established to form a cooperation at the international level.