Ünver, Hamid Akın

Ünver, Hamid Akın

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Ünver, Hamid Akın
H.,Ünver
H. A. Ünver
Hamid Akın, Ünver
Unver, Hamid Akin
H.,Unver
H. A. Unver
Hamid Akin, Unver
Unver, H. Akin
Ünver,A.
Akin Ünver,H.
Ünver,A.
Akin Ünver,H.

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Akın.unver@khas.edu.tr

Main Affiliation

International Relations

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Former Staff

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Scholarly Output

22

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12

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Turkey Past and Future: the Forgotten Secular Turkish Model
(2013) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
[Abstract Not Available]
Militancy Governance Under State Failure: Models of Legitimacy Contestation in Ungoverned Spaces
(2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
This article makes an empirical exposition of militancy governance under state failure by focusing on ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), YPG (People's Protection Units), Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic. Specifically, the article discusses how these groups mobilize different types of grievances and frame their propaganda to exert control over areas where states are weakened. Furthermore, how these groups engage in early modes of pre- and post-territorial control, form governance practices and prioritize particular areas for better administration are also elaborated in detail. Ultimately, the paper argues that Violent Non-State Actors (VNSAs) perform better in areas of low loyalty and high resource-generation and if its territorial ambitions are maximalist (expansionist). Through these variables, we are better able to judge how sustainable these groups will be in their respective territories and how should states approach local governance once these groups are defeated.
Citation - Scopus: 11
Turkey's Kurdish Question: Discourse & Politics Since 1990
(Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
The Kurdish question is one of the most complicated and protracted conflicts of the Middle East and will never be resolved unless it is finally defined. The majority of the Kurdish people live in Turkey, which gives the country a unique position in the larger Kurdish conundrum. Society in Turkey is deeply divided over the definition and even existence of the Kurdish question, and this uncertainty has long manifested itself in its complete denial, or in accusations of political rivals of 'separatism' and even 'treason'. Turkey's Kurdish Question explores how these denial and acknowledgement dynamics often reveal pre-existing political ideology and agenda priorities, themselves becoming political actions. While the very term "Kurdish question" is discussed in the academic literature as a given, a new and systemic study is required to deconstruct and analyze the constitutive parts of this discursive construct. This book provides the first comprehensive study and analysis of the discursive constructions and perceptions of what is broadly defined as the "Kurdish question" in Turkish, European and American political cultures. Furthermore, its new methodological approach to the study of discourse and politics of secessionist conflicts can be applied to many similar intra-state conflict cases. Turkey's Kurdish Question would suit students and scholars of Middle East studies, Conflict studies and Comparative Politics, as well as Turkish or Kurdish studies. © 2015 Hamid Akin Ünver. All rights reserved.
Do Climate-Related Natural Disasters Affect the Conflict Dynamics Through Affecting the Horizontal Inequalities?: the Cases of Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Rodi Mutlu, Mirkan; Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
There is a complex relationship between natural disasters and conflict. While the literature mainly investigates this relationship through the impact of climate related-natural disasters on conflict via its effect on state capacity, economic-agricultural output, grievances and greed, there is less attention to the climate-related natural disasters' impact on conflict through affecting the horizontal inequalities. Since that the climate related-natural disasters can highly worsen the economic and social conditions in vulnerable deprived regions and less worsen the conditions in advantaged regions, climate-related natural disasters can worsen the horizontal inequalities in the country. Horizontal inequalities can increase the risk of conflict. Therefore, it is important to analyze this relationship. In this thesis, I investigate the impact of the climate-related natural disasters on conflict dynamics through affecting the horizontal inequalities. By focusing on the cases of Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria, I think that the climate-related natural disasters increase the risk of conflict in Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria by worsening the horizontal inequalities in these countries. On contrary to my expectation, my results show that while the climate related-disasters increased the risk of conflict in Nigeria through worsening the horizontal inequalities, they did not increase the risk of conflict in Malawi and Mozambique via horizontal inequalities. Specifically, for Mozambique, the results indicated that climate related-natural disasters did not increase the risk of conflict via horizontal inequalities since that both the advantaged and deprived regions were affected in similar levels. For Malawi, my results suggest that the despite that the climate related-natural disasters worsened the horizontal inequalities, there were no increased risk of conflict. The reason is that affected deprived people did not feel injustice or inequality. Also, the low-level horizontal inequalities affected the the peace situation in Malawi. As an important note, my findings are mainly weak and should not be understand as strong/important results. I mainly observe the relationship among the disasters-conflict-horizontal inequalities.
The Effect of External Actors on the Courses of Asymmetric Conflicts: Pkk, Ltte, and Farc
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Sezgin, Tuğba; Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
İkinci Dünya savaşından sonraki dönemde artış gösteren ve bugün dünyanın birçok yerinde farklı motivasyonlarla varlık gösteren silahlı örgütler iç savaş literatürünün ana konusunu oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışma da asimetrik yöntemlerle savaşan devletdışı silahlı örgütlerin güçlü taraf olan devletlere karşı varlıklarını nasıl sürdürebildiğini sorunsallaştırmaktadır ve silahlı örgütlerin savaşın zayıf tarafı olmalarına rağmen dış aktörlerden aldıkları destek sayesinde uzun yıllar şiddet kullanma kapasitelerini devam ettirebildiklerini savunmaktadır. Dış aktörlerin ise silahlı örgütlere yardım etmekle savaşın sürecine, aktörlerin tutumlarına ve dolayısıyla sonucuna ciddi ölçüde etki ettiğini iddia etmektedir. Bahsi geçen argümanların ne derece geçerli olduğunu görebilmek için asimetrik taktikler benimseyen üç farklı silahlı örgütün karşılaştırmalı incelenmesi yoluna başvurulmaktadır.Bu örgütler uzun süre çeşitli dış desteklerin varlığı sayesinde ayakta kalabilmiş Kürdistan İşçi Partisi (PKK), Tamil Eelam Kurtuluş Kaplanları (LTTTE) ve Kolombiya Devrimci Silahlı Güçleri (FARC)’tır. Bu örgütlerin detaylı analizi, diğer silahlı örgütlerin var olmasına etki eden faktörlerin anlaşılması ve neden oldukları şiddete son verilmesi açısından önemli bulgular sunmaktadır.
Conscription & Coup D'état, a correlation analysis
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
The objective of this thesis is to analyse the relation between conscription and coup d'état. The intention of the thesis is to fill a gap in the literature regarding both conscription and coup d'état since no quantitative research on the combination of both topics has been performed yet. Although several countries are currently using conscription with the justification that conscription is supposed to protect the country from coup d'état. These expressions are thus completely speculative since there is no research to back up this claim that conscription in fact protects an country from coup d'état. The relationship between conscription and coup d'état has been analysed through the mean of several variables: democracy; freedom index, polity IV index, and regime type, economy; GDP per capita and the GINI, military management; military expenditures per capita and military personnel per capita, religion; Islam, Christianity and others, fractionalisation; religious and linguistic and lastly through the variable of colonisation. These variables have been chosen in order the reflect the extent and complexity involved with coup d'état as well as with conscription. The research has made use of quantitative research methods using a zero-inflated Poisson regression. The results of the zero-inflated Poisson regression show that there is in fact a relation between conscription and coup d'état. The analyses showed an inverted nonlinear relation between GDP per capita, conscription and coup d'état, where the increase of GDP per capita, and years of conscription exercised in a country showed an increase of coup d'état up to a certain point, after which the relations seizes to exist. Other relations with coup d'état could be found with the variables of democracy, economy, military personnel, religion and linguistic fractionalisation. There, however, does not show to be a relation between military expenditures, religious fractionalisation or colonialism and coup d'état.
Harmonızation Under Temporary Protectıon: The Norm Life Cycle Of Education For Syrıans İn Turkey 2013-2017 Gecici Koruma Altındaki Suriyelilerin Harmonizasyonu: 2013-2017 Yılları Arasında Turkiye'deki Suriyelilerin Eğitiminin Norm Yaşam Döngüsü
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Rasmussen, Amber Kae Heyer; Ünver, Hamid Akın; Güvenç, Serhat; Ünver, Hamid Akın; Sert, Deniz; International Relations
Türkiye 2013 – 2017 arası üçte biri zorunlu eğitim çağında 2,7 milyon Suriyeli mülteciyi ağırladı. Geçicilik vizyonuyla hareket edilen bu süreçte hızlı kurumsal değişimler geçiren ve vatandaşları tarafından meşruluğu azalan Türkiye hükümeti, başka ihtiyaçlarının yanında şehirlerde ikamet eden mültecilerin %90'ının eğitim ihtiyaçlarını karşılamaya hazır değildi. Bu araştırma, Türkiye'nin 2013-2017 yılları arasında Suriyelilerin eğitimine ilişkin değişen politikalarını tanımlamak için Martha Finnemore ve Kathryn Sikkink'in (1998) Norm Yaşam Döngüsü'nü kullanmaktadır. Bu betimsel çalışma, masa başı araştırma yöntemlerini kullanarak Türkiye'deki mültecilerin eğitiminin norm ve evrimini Türkiye'deki Suriyeliler üzerinden incelemektedir. Finnemore ve Sikkink'in üç aşamalı norm yaşam döngüsü modeli Türkiye'nin, Türkiye'deki Suriyeliler'i baz alarak, mülteci eğitiminde bir aşamadan diğer aşamaya evrilmesine sebep olan baraj noktalarını ve kritik eşikleri detaya inerek incelemeyi hedeflemektedir. Bu kritik eşiklerin ve çevrelerindeki olayların konstrüktivist bir bakış açısıyla incelenmesi, aktörleri uluslararası eğitim normlarına yaklaştırmaktadır. Türkiye gibi ekstrem bir vakanın bir milyondan fazla mülteci öğrencinin eğitimine yaklaşımındaki yetkinliklerini ve esnekliklerini incelemek, uluslararası mülteci eğitiminde gelecek model ve normlara kaynak oluşturabilir ve mülteciler ile ev sahibi ülkenin toplulukları üzerindeki negatif etkiyi azaltabilir. Anahtar Sözcükler: Mülteci, Eğitim, Zorunlu göç, Entegrasyon, Uyum, Norm araştırması, Kimlik, Meşruiyet, Konstrüktivizm, Yapılandırmacılık
Citation - WoS: 5
Citation - Scopus: 6
Turkish-Iranian Energy Cooperation and Conflict: the Regional Politics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
[Abstract Not Available]
Citation - Scopus: 1
Turkey, Past and Future: the Forgotten Secular Turkish Model
(2013) Akin Ünver,H.; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
[No abstract available]
Citation - Scopus: 8
Contested Geographies: How Isis and Ypg Rule "no-Go" Areas in Northern Syria
(Springer International Publishing, 2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın; Ünver, Hamid Akın; International Relations
[Abstract Not Available]