CIAO DATE: 04/2013
Volume: 9, Issue: 36
Winter 2013
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Mustafa Aydin, Korhan YAZGAN
Survey International Relations Faculty in Turkey: Teaching, Research and International Politics -2011
Following 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 Re lations 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 In ternational 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 theoreti cal knowledge production and other countries provide local expertise and data.
Dış Politikayı Analiz Etmek: Dış Politika Analizinde Yapan-Yapı Sorunu (PDF)
Fulya Ereker
Analyzing Foreign Policy: Agent-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy Analysis
The primary aim of this study is to fi nd out which approach/approaches of IR provide the most appropriate framework for analyzing foreign policy. This is mainly because it is believed that existing approaches of IR have major defi ciencies in analyzing foreign policy. In this regard, firstly an evaluation will be made about how main approaches of the discipline analyze international politics in general and foreign policy in particular. This evaluation will be made on the basis of the agent-structure problem, for as much the main factor which shapes perspectives over foreign policy is the agent-structure problem. The problem named as the agent-structure problem in the discipline, refers to the debate over the ontological priority given to the agent or structure. Since it is believed that a satisfactory analyze of foreign policy should neither prioritize agent nor structure, and should have the ability to explain both agent and structure, the agent-structure problem stands at the heart of this study. With this aim this study tries to answer which approach/approaches provide the appropriate framework for solving the agentstructure problem in analyzing foreign policy. At the same time, the claim of the constructivist approach, which is directly based on the agent-structure problem, that it has provided the best solution to the problem will also be questioned in this regard.
Halit Mustafa Emin TAĞMA, Meltem MÜFTÜLER-BAÇ, Ezgi UZUN
A critical juncture in Turkey’s NATO membership arrived in 2010 with the NATO Council’s decision, at its Lisbon summit, to build a ballistic missile defense system. After many deliberations, Turkey fi nally agreed to participate in NATO’s missile defense by hosting the system’s radar site in September 2011. Th is article investigates the main dynamics of the Turkish decision to commit to the NATO missile defense system by hosting the radar site on its territory. From a realpolitik point of view, Turkey’s participation in the missile shield presents us with a theoretical puzzle as the utilitarian calculations do not seem to indicate a positive sum gain. From a historical institutionalist perspective, the Turkish decision could be seen as a result of a path-dependent process. Assessing these alternative approaches, we bring together the strength of each school’s theoretical toolbox in order to off er a complementary explanation of Turkey’s commitment to the alliance.
Uluslararası Mülteci Rejimi: Afganistan Örneği Üzerinden Bir Rejim Etkinliği Analizi (PDF)
Arzu Güler
International Refugee Regime: An Analysis of Regime Eff ectiveness through the Afghanistan Case
The international refugee regime has promoted the voluntary repatriation as the most preferred durable solution since the beginning of the 1990s and aimed to provide sustainability of these repatriations through increasing its activities in the countries of origin under the notion of 4Rs since 2002. Th ough there are positive and negative arguments regarding the “solution” strategy in the literature, the success of the regime on this strategy has not been examined in an analytical way. Th is article analytically questions regime eff ectiveness in terms of voluntariness and sustainability, through examining mass repatriations to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2010. It concludes that international refugee regime is not eff ective in the Afghan case and for a more eff ective refugee regime, it suggests an interstate cooperation based on common
İlke CİVELEKOĞLU
Th is article addresses how the Hungarian Central Bank gained autonomy in its operations from ruling politicians. While stressing the substantial infl uence of external actors in exercise of this reform, the article also demonstrates the limits of external infl uence by shedding light on the domestic political costs of this reform. Th e high costs of central bank reform in the calculations of the ruling politicians allowed the Central Bank of Hungary to gain partial operational autonomy in 1991, which fell short of fulfi lling the Copenhagen criteria for EU accession. Th e article discusses how partial reform furthered in Hungarian context by unpacking the interplay between domestic and external actors.
Osmanlı-Rus İlişkilerinden Bir Kesit:1826 Akkerman Andlaşması'nın "Müzarekeleri'" (PDF)
Selim ASLANTAŞ
A Fragment from the Ottoman-Russian Relations: “Th e Negotiations” of the Treaty of Akkerman of 1826
This article focuses on the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Akkerman, based on the Ottoman sources. Delivering an ultimatum to the Sublime Porte, Tsar Nicholas I demanded from the Ottoman Empire that she was to dispatch plenipotentiaries to the border in order to “clarify” the stipulations of the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812 through negotiations. Th e Ottoman Empire which mattered in the political and military aff airs of at that time had to yield to this demand and appointed two plenipotentiaries to negotiate with the Russians. At the end of two-month negotiations, Russians made the Ottomans accept, with the exception of some minor issues, all their demands. Th e Treaty of Akkerman can be described a kind of “the diplomacy of desperation” for the Ottomans. Th ough Akkerman was apparently a shortlived, it is very important because of the fact that it constitutes foundation for the Treaty of Adrianople of 1829 that was signed between the two empires after the War of 1818-29.
Adam HANIEH, Körfez Ülkelerinde Kapitalizm ve Sınıf (PDF)
Mustafa BÖLÜKBAŞI