Browsing by Subject "Institutionalism"

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Same situation, different terminus : lessons regarding relations between Turkey and Greece and South Korea and Japan from 1948 to 1965
(2008) Kim, Changsob
In 1948, Turkey-Greece and South Korea-Japan relations were in similar situations of a historical national animosity, perception of communist threat, and strategic interests of an alliance with the U.S. In 1965, whereas the North Eastern case came to a „more peaceful‟ convergence, the Mediterranean case reached „a conflictual type‟ of divergence. The aim of this thesis is to reveal the reason, comparing the two American solutions, which employed two theories, namely, institutionalism and economic interdependence: NATO in the Mediterranean case and bilateral trade in the North Eastern one. Through the use of theoretical and historical/empirical approach, this thesis highlights two findings: (1) in dyadic level of conflict, an economic solution was more successful than the NATO solution, and (2) the formation of direct bilateral relations was easier to eliminate historical enmity and establish peace than multilateral ones. I conclude that bilateral economic interdependence is far more effective in building peaceful relations between states compared to multilateral institutionalism.
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Structure, agents and discourse in managing economic crises: the case of Greece, 2009-2017
(International Relations Council of Turkey (UİK-IRCT), 2018) Tsarouhas, Dimitris
This article focuses on the discursive frames used by policy entrepreneurs in Greece as they attempted to deal with the 2009 crisis and analyses the role played by discourse in handling the crisis’ consequences. Adopting a historical institutionalist framework, I argue that ineffective policy outcomes can be attributed to a path-dependent logic enshrined in the country’s political economy structures following the transition to democracy post-1974. Moreover, the reaction of policy entrepreneurs to the crisis was reinforced by their discursive logic of action, itself embedded in the state’s institutional matrix. Procrastination, a refusal to face an uncomfortable reality and politics as usual colours the response of Greek actors to the country’s biggest crisis in recent memory.