International Relations
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Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism
(Sage, 2020-02-01)What gives representation its democratic essence? The recent democratic theory literature, particularly spearheaded by Nadia Urbinati, defends representative mediation as a facilitator of ongoing democratic contestation ... -
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Civil war and democratization: A micro‐level analysis
(Wiley, 2020-03)Objective In this study we draw on the conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkey to explore how exposure to violence can engender support for democracy at the individual level. Methods We rely on ... -
Peace processes and the integration of pro-government militias: The case of village guards in Turkey
(Sage, 2020-03)Militia groups have only recently started to attract scholarly attention in the literature on internal conflicts. This attention is mostly focused on either the causes of their emergence or their functions and performance ... -
Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-17)One of the challenges of autocratizing governments in regimes with nominally democratic institutions is how to repress fundamental democratic rights while claiming to uphold the rule of law. Post-9/11 socio-legal debates ... -
Repression without exception: A study of protest bans during Turkey’s state of emergency (2016-2018)
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-02)Following the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that would last for two years. In this paper, we focus on an understudied aspect of this period, protest repression during ... -
The eye of war: Military perception from the telescope to the drone
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Framing Syrians in Turkey: State control and no crisis discourse
(Wiley, 2020-07)The mass arrival of Syrian refugees and their continuing presence have triggered many new debates regarding migration in Turkey, which - as a result of its open-door policy - now hosts the highest number of refugees in the ... -
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Integrating realist and neoliberal theories of war
(Walter de Gruyter, 2019-05)The requirements for global security and international stability vary according to the perspective brought to bear on the subject. Indeed, the structural realist and neoliberal paradigms present markedly different views ... -
Status quo conservatism, placation, or partisan division? Analysing citizen attitudes towards financial reform in the United States
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-04)Within the literature on financial governance a key question is why the 2008 financial crisis did not elicit a stronger regulatory reaction than it did - the 'post-crisis stasis' puzzle. We explore a neglected dimension ... -
From geopolitical competition to strategic partnership: Turkey and Russia after the cold war
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2019)This article examines different analytical perspectives on Turkish-Russian relations and provides a conceptual history of developing connections between Turkey and Russia since the end of the Cold War. It first reviews ... -
Debating the dual citizenship – integration nexus in Turkey
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2019)This article explores the institution of dual citizenship outside of the West and focuses on Turkey to assess the possible relationship between dual citizenship and the integration of migrants, drawing on Kymlicka and ... -
Refugees and elections: the effects of Syrians on voting behavior in Turkey
(Wiley, 2019-04)In the wake of the Syrian civil war, more than three million people have fled to Turkey, which now hosts the largest refugee population on earth. Making up 4.42 per cent of the total population in Turkey as of February ... -
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Property rights in the Syrian conflict: remedy for the displaced
(Transnational Press London, 2019-04)Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in March 2011, Turkey has been the leading host country for the displaced. As of December 2017, 3.3 million Syrians reside in Turkey under a temporary protection regime and there ... -
Policy knowledge, collective action and advocacy coalitions: regulating GMOs in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-03)Turkey's biosafety regulations allow genetically modified food to be imported from abroad while prohibiting cultivation in Turkey - a puzzling regime that discriminates against domestic production. This article demonstrates ... -
Mobilization follies in international relations: A multimethod exploration of why some decision makers fail to avoid war when public mobilization as a bargaining tool fails
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2019-07)This paper is intended to serve as a show and tell model for graduate students. Sections in parentheses and italics provide a running commentary by the author on the decisions taken throughout the paper. The goal is to ...
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