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Book Part Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe: Actors, Dynamics and Governance(TRANSNATIONAL PRESS LONDON, 2020) Oral, Gul[Abstract Not Available]Article Post-Hegemonic (dis)order and Regiional Balancing Strategies in the Middle East(Univ Complutense Madrid, 2019) Ifantis, KostasFollowing the so-called Arab Spring, the strategic situation in the Middle East has been one of disorder. A series of critical, complex and interrelated security failures have resulted in chaos and bloodshed unprecedented even for a region with Middle East's history and legacy. The demand for intervention has been high but the response has been very low. In such an unchartered and rapidly deteriorating regional security setting, this paper argues that the conspicuous absence of US hegemonic engagement has allowed for the return to overt regional balance of power strategies and proxy conflicts. Our hypothesis is that a regional balance of power and the resulting order (or disorder) heavily depends on the type of great power regional engagement. In such a context, the "hands off" or non-hegemonic approach that characterizes US strategy since the Arab Spring eruption has heavily contributed to a highly disorderly regional balance of power landscape. In the absence of US hegemonic involvement, revisionist threats emerge and local rivalries intensify.Article Citation - WoS: 43Citation - Scopus: 50Relationship Between Financial Crisis and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries Using Semiparametric Regression Approach(Vilnius Gediminas Tech Univ, 2010) Ucal, Meltem Şengün; Ozcan, Kivilcim Metin; Bilgin, Mehmet Hüseyin; Mungo, JuliusThis paper analyzes whether and to what extent the inflow of FDI is affected before and after the occurence of a financial crisis in developing countries. The paper uses a semiparametric Generalized Partial Linear Models (GPLM) regression approach to check the appropriateness and effectiveness of financial crisis in the FDI regression model. The results indicate that FDI inflows decrease in the years after a financial crisis and an upturn in FDI inflows the year before a financial crisis hit the country.Book Review Varieties of Capitalism in Asia: Beyond the Developmental State(Savez Ekonomista Vojvodine, 2018) Karaoğuz, Hüseyin Emrah[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Squaring the Circle: the Eu's Operational Impact in the Black Sea Region(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem; Dizdaroğlu, CihanThe aim of this paper is to explain the flux in the European Union (EU) policies towards the Black Sea region with a particular comparative focus on the impact of the EU's operations in the South Caucasus and the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Moldova. This paper adopts the prospect and process of EU enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe as a breakthrough in the EU's deeper rapprochement with the Black Sea region. By assuming that the EU has a variety of instruments at its disposal for crisis management this paper suggests that the EU is relatively more powerful with its framework initiatives in dealing with the problems of the region at the grass-roots level more so than as a security actor assuming direct roles including the operative side of the Common Security and Defence Policy in the resolution of the regional conflicts in Abkhazia South Ossetia Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. More specifically this paper argues to what extent the three-and-a-half operations in the Black Sea are successful in presenting effective solutions to the region's conflictual situations.Article Citation - WoS: 8The great game in the Levant: energy geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean [Levant’ta büyük oyun: Doğu Akdeniz’in enerji jeopolitiği](Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012) Ediger, Volkan S.; Devlen, Balkan; McDonald, Deniz BingölThis study explores the historical evolution of the Levant region from the trade system to hydrocarbon geopolitics by using a longue duree approach one which evaluates the region's present situation in light of developments in oil and natural gas exploration production and export. The concepts of great power politics and balance of power frame the investigation of permanent and changing dimensions of hydrocarbon geopolitics. The first of the two hypotheses tested and verified in this study is that the geopolitics of the Levant maintains its historical importance for the global hegemon and for the international state system even though the central thrust of the Levant's geopolitics has been tranformed from trade to energy. The second hypothesis is that regional and global peace and stability increase when the geopolitics of the Levant is in the control of a hegemon. Instances of conflict increase and opportunities for cooperation decrease when the Levant's geopolitics slips from the grasp of a single hegemon as a result of shifts in the balance of power. Following a discussion of threats and opportunities for conflict and cooperation in the Levant region possible strategies for the regional actors are evaluated. Lastly the threats and opportunities that Turkey faces are situated within emergent trends in the energy geopolitics of the region.Article Perception or Discourse? Security Threats in Copenhagen School and Neoclassical Realism(2011) Acikmese Akgul, SinemThis article compares the perceptive approach of neoclassical realist security understanding with the discursive constructivist methodology of the Copenhagen School in analyzing the emergence of security threats. It departs from the assumption that these theories divergent in their perspectives on the content of security threats as well as security actors are comparable since they reveal methodological commonalities. The main emphasis of this article is that while partly adopting the perceptive subjectivity of neoclassical realism the Copenhagen School has further developed an alternative model of discursive intersubjectivity in analyzing security threats. In this context it will first cover the discussions on the content of security threats in Security Studies literature. It will then compare the assumptions of various realist understandings of security on the content and emergence of security threats with a particular focus on the perceptive perspective of neoclassical realism. Finally it will study the threat approach of the Copenhagen School through its securitization theory with insights from the speech-act theory political theory and discourse analysis in comparison with neoclassical realism.Article Ideology Political Agenda and Conflict: a Comparison of American European and Turkish Legislatures' Discourses on Kurdish Question(Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2017) Ünver, Hamid AkınCombining discourse analysis with quantitative methods this article compares how the legislatures of Turkey the US and the EU discursively constructed Turkey's Kurdish question. An examination of the legislative-political discourse through 1990 to 1999 suggests that a country suffering from a domestic secessionist conflict perceives and verbalizes the problem differently than outside observers and external stakeholders do. Host countries of conflicts perceive their problems through a more security-oriented lens and those who observe these conflicts at a distance focus more on the humanitarian aspects. As regards Turkey this study tests politicians' perceptions of conflicts and the influence of these perceptions on their pre-existing political agendas for the Kurdish question and offers a new model for studying political discourse on intra-state conflicts. The article suggests that a political agenda emerges as the prevalent dynamic in conservative politicians' approaches to the Kurdish question whereas ideology plays a greater role for liberal/pro-emancipation politicians. Data shows that politically conservative politicians have greater variance in their definitions based on material factors such as financial electoral or alliance-building constraints whereas liberal and/or left-wing politicians choose ideologically confined discursive frameworks such as human rights and democracy.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Neo-Weberian Historical Sociology, the English School and Differentiated Integration in the E(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020) Ruacan, İpek ZeynepThis article explores the contributions of Neo-Weberian historical sociology of the state and the English School of International Relations theory to our understanding of differentiated integration in the European Union. In doing so, it turns to the English School concept of 'radial empires' to establish differentiation as a structural feature of all centralized entities in international society such as the European Union. It then turns to the concepts of 'sociospatial networks of power' and 'despotic vs. infrastructural' forms of state power from the Neo-Weberian literature to discuss why empires function radially. Subsequently, it links vertical differentiation to the interplay between sociospatial networks of power and horizontal differentiation to the interplay between despotic and infrastructural forms of state power in the member states of the European Union. Crucial insights for understanding differentiation can be gained from engagement with these concepts not least for understanding Brexit which links with the United Kingdom's particularly high infrastructural power.Editorial Citation - WoS: 3Roundtable Discussion on Homegrown Theorizing(Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2018) Aydinli, Ersel; Aydın, Mustafa; Baran, Emre; Makarychev, Andrey; Smith, Karen; Gozen, Ramazan; Ipek, Pinar; Kuru, Deniz; Ozdemir, Haluk; Shih, Chih-Yu; Mallavarapu, Siddharth; Chen, Ching-Chang; Kostem, Seckin; Ersoy, Eyup; Jorgensen, Knud Erik; Esen, Berk[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 5Revisiting the Britain-Us Triangle During the Transition From Pax Britannica To Pax Americana (1947-1957)(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020) Barlas, Dilek; Yılmaz, Şuhnaz; Güvenç, SerhatThis article analyses the triangular relations between Britain, the United States and Turkey in the volatile Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region at the advent of the Cold War. It examines the political, economic and military strategies that enabled Turkey to adapt to the transitional period from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana (1947-1957) in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. By focusing on this turbulent decade extending from the Truman Doctrine (1947) to the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957), this study posits that the transition from the waning influence of Britain to the coalitional hegemony of the United States was protracted and multi-layered. In this context, Turkey had to walk a diplomatic tightrope while managing certain aspects of continuity and change in a volatile region.Book Review The European Union's Immigration Policy: Managing Migration in Turkey and Morocco(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018) Oral, GulMigration has been an important reason for externalization of the EU’s policies towards non- member third countries. Throughout the 2000s, the European Union has advanced its efforts for externalization of its immigration policies with the aim of providing security, stability, and prosperity in the neighborhood due to emerging demographic, economic and security problems.Conference Object The Russian Policies in the South Caucasus(IOS Press, 2011) Çelikpala, MitatIn the post-2000 period, Russia's relations with the former Soviet geography, or its "near abroad," are dominated by such issues as energy, namely the dependence of the surrounding countries on Russia, changes in the trade patterns and the impact of globalization, the fight with terrorism, entrenched ethnic conflicts, and the enlargement of Western structures including NATO. In this general framework, the Caucasus has had a special importance for Russia due to its geopolitical and strategic position at the crossroads of energy transit lines, the existence of rich energy resources and the complexity of its ethnic structure. This article aims to analyze Russian Federation's Caucasus policy in a comprehensive manner.Article Citation - WoS: 4THE LOGIC OF SECRECY: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE IN TURKEY AND RUSSIA(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2018) Ünver, Hamid AkınTurkey and Russia have been developing comparable approaches to digital surveillance. The advent of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social media platforms have enabled significantly increased systematic state surveillance. From the state's perspective, data-centric digital surveillance is required for two reasons. First, the extent and depth at which terrorist organizations and criminal groups use these platforms for recruitment, logistics, and planning. Second, this trend is driven by a variant of "security dilemma" in which one state's intelligence advantage in digital space renders other states relatively less secure, generating a never-ending momentum of digital surveillance capability investment. Turkish and Russian surveillance regimes have grown as two particularly problematic cases in the wider surveillance literature.Article Citation - WoS: 9Survey International Relations Faculty in Turkey: Teaching Research and International Politics-2011(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2013) Aydın, Mustafa; Yazgan, KorhanFollowing the surveys which were conducted in 2007 and 2009 by the International Relations Council of Turkey Teaching Research and International Politics Survey 2011 was implemented in 2011 in cooperation with the Teaching Research and International Politics TRIP Survey. which has been carried out by the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary in the United States since 2004. The survey aims to explain and understand the development current status and major characteristics of the International Relations (IR) studies in Turkey its place in the global IR discipline and the views of IR scholars on major issues on the global regional and national agenda. This report aims to present the results of the survey comparatively at the global and national scale. The findings were organized in such a way to also test the argument that there is a functional core/periphery division in the world of IR according to which the Western core countries undertake theoretical knowledge production and other countries provide local expertise and data.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 7Geopolitics and Gas-Transit Security Through Pipelines(Springer International Publishing, 2020) Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V.; Aydın, MustafaHydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively analyzed until contentious relations between Russia and Ukraine disrupted natural gas flows to Europe in 2006. This chapter examines the geopolitics and security of transiting gas through pipelines by exploring the connection between geography, global energy strategies, and natural gas markets. Gas has grown in recent years as a percentage of global energy consumption and is helping the world transition to a cleaner energy regime. At the same time, it is intensifying the contest for and control of gas-transit routes. Russia, the world’s second-largest producer, has built new pipelines to Europe since 2006 in order to diversify its flow from relying on Ukraine, while the USA, the world’s largest gas producer, is increasingly exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) through sea routes mostly controlled by the US navy. We argue that geostrategic calculations will more profoundly affect gas transit in the future and that countries that rely solely on market or commercial factors for their gas-transit security will become increasingly vulnerable to geopolitical volatility.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 5How Turkey's Islamists Fell Out of Love With Iran(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Ünver, Hamid Akın[Abstract Not Available]Book Review Why Do Leaders Lie: the Truth About Lying in International Relations(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2013) Güvenç, Serhat[Abstract Not Available]Conference Object Turkey's Caucasus Policies(IOS Press, 2011) Aydın, MustafaThe emergence of newly independent states in the Caucasus at the end of the Cold War presented challenges to Turkey while enlarging its role. The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the century-old Soviet/Russian threat while at the same time created a power vacuum on Turkey's borders. In this environment Turkey became an important actor in the region as a result of its strong historical connections. While Turkey had traditionally avoided involvement in regional politics it has since been drawn into the volatile new politics of the region. After twenty years Turkey has become one of the important players in a region where its involvement has particularly increased since the August 2008 with its suggestion to establish Caucasus Cooperation and Stability Platform. Although its attempt to further engage Armenia is halted now and economic and political conditions in the region are unlikely to stabilize for some years it is without doubt that Turkey will continue to create new networks of interdependency between Ankara and the regional capitals.Other Türkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler Akademisyenleri Araştırma, Eğitim ve Disiplin Değerlendirmeleri Anketi - 2009(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2010) Aydın, Mustafa; Yazgan, KorhanTürkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler üzerine yapılan çalışmalarda karşılaşılan en önemli sorunlardan birisi genel olarak disiplinde çalışanlar ve ilgi alanlarıyla ilgili veri eksikliğidir. Bu konuda yapılan tartışmalara katkı sağlamak amacı ile Haziran-Temmuz 2009’da Türkiye’deki üniversitelerin Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümlerinde görevli öğretim elemanlarının uluslararası ilişkiler eğitimi, araştırma pratikleri ile küresel ve ulusal düzeyde disipline nasıl baktıklarını saptamak amacıyla bir anket yapıldı. Ankete katılanlara Uluslararası İlişkiler müfredatı ve derslerin içeriği, araştırmalarında odaklandıkları temel konular, bölgeler ve benimsedikleri teorik yaklaşımlar ile siyasi tutumları, eğitim ve araştırmalarında tercih ettikleri dil ve yayın biçimleri, akademik dergiler, üniversiteler ve siyasi süreçler ile akademi dışı entelektüel faaliyetlere katılımları gibi birçok konuya ilişkin 55 soru yöneltildi. Anketin ortaya koyduğu sonuçlara göre Türkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler çalışmaları dış politika ağırlıklı, Türkiye ile büyük güçlere odaklı ve gerçekçiliğin görece daha yaygın olduğu bir alandır.
