Browsing Faculty of Social Sciences by OzU Authors "Paker, Evren Balta"
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Civil war and democratization: A micro‐level analysis
Gurses, M.; Celik, A. B.; Paker, Evren Balta (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 ... -
Defeating populists: The case of 2019 Istanbul elections
Demiralp, S.; Paker, Evren Balta (Taylor & Francis, 2021)How can populist competitive authoritarian regimes be defeated through elections? In this article, we focus on the 2019 municipal campaign strategy of the opposition Istanbul candidate Ekrem İmamoglu as a case study of a ... -
From geopolitical competition to strategic partnership: Turkey and Russia after the cold war
Paker, Evren Balta (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 ... -
Peace processes and the integration of pro-government militias: The case of village guards in Turkey
Paker, Evren Balta; Yuksel, M.; Acar, Y. G. (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 ... -
Populist attitudes and conspiratorial thinking
Paker, Evren Balta; Kaltwasser, C. R.; Yagci, A. H. (Sage, 2022-07)What happens to the anti-establishment sentiments of pro-incumbent voters for a populist force that is in government and thus controls the political system? This article examines this question utilizing the case of Turkey, ... -
Turkey's foreign policy: Opportunities and constraints in a new era
Paker, Evren Balta; Özel, S. (New School Unv., 2021)N/A -
The village guard system: Counter-insurgency and local collaboration
Paker, Evren Balta (Taylor & Francis, 2019)N/A -
War and peace in the age of corona: an analysis of support for repressive state policies in divided societies
Gurses, M.; Paker, Evren Balta; Çelik, A. B. (Taylor & Francis, 2022-03-15)Unlike various natural disasters that some studies have highlighted as potential contributors to peace, the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic is neither short-term nor regionally confined. Thus, rather than invoking a ... -
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey
Aydin-Duzgit, S.; Paker, Evren Balta (Cambridge University Press, 2018-11)This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames-namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict-that selected Turkish ...
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