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Item Open Access Energy policies of Turkey in triangle of the USA, the EU, and Russia(Bilkent University, 2010) Kumaş, GizemThis 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 and neoliberalism. After giving detailed energy profile of Turkey, in the thesis, neorealism is utilized or energy relations between Turkey and the US, whereas neoliberalism is used to analyze energy relations of Turkey with the EU and Russia. The study reaches to a conclusion that energy politics compose a significant share for relations between states and in this context according neorealism the result would come up as little cooperation and according to neoliberalism, as middle cooperation considering gains and interests of the actors.Item Open Access Impact of EU enlargement on economic and social cohesion(Bilkent University, 2007) Yelkenbiçer, Emel AhuThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of each phase of enlargement on the regional policy of the EU. It mainly focuses on the socio-economic indices like the economic potential, GDP growth, inflation, euro trends, unemployment, labor market participation and its industrial distribution, education, social protection, technological performance by considering research and development expenditures, infrastructure and patents application. This research shows the general situation in various countries through special data and makes a comparison between the new and previous members. The overall assessment is that the enlargement strategy of the EU makes the regional policy ineffective. In other words, it becomes difficult to overcome regional imbalances with the admission of the new comers. In this context, enlargement is the major cause of the rise of socio-economic disparities.Item Open Access “Only strong states can survive in Turkey's geography”: the uses of “geopolitical truths” in Turkey(Pergamon Press, 2007) Bilgin, P.Following Critical Geopoliticians' re-formulation of geopolitics as discourse, this article historically traces, politically contextualizes, and empirically analyzes the linguistic practices as found in myriad actors' formal geopolitical writings and public articulations in Turkey. It shows how the production and dissemination of a particular understanding of geopolitics as a "scientific" perspective on statecraft, and the military as an actor licensed to craft state policies (by virtue of its mastery over geopolitical knowledge) has allowed the military to play a central role in shaping domestic political processes. Subsequent to the erosion of bi-partisan consensus on foreign policy from the mid-1960s onwards, civilian actors also began to tap geopolitics but as a foreign policy tool. By the end of the 1990s, geopolitics had become rooted in the discourses of both military and civilian actors shaping (for "better" or for "worse") Turkey's "foreign" relations with the European Union as well as "domestic" political processes.