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Article Citation - WoS: 34Citation - Scopus: 43Brain Drain From Turkey: an Investigation of Students' Return Intentions(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008) Gungor, Nil Demet; Tansel, AysitThe emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that have led to an increase in unemployment among the highly educated young. This study estimates a model of return intentions using a data set compiled from an Internet survey of Turkish students residing abroad. The findings of this study indicate that, as expected, higher salaries offered in the host country and lifestyle preferences, including a more organized environment in the host country, increase the probability of student nonreturn. However, the analysis also points to the importance of prior return intentions and the role of the family in the decision to return to Turkey or stay overseas. It is also found that the compulsory service requirement attached to government scholarships increases the probability of student return. Turkish student association membership also increases return intentions. Longer stay durations, on the other hand, decrease the probability of return. These findings have important policy implications.Article The Cultural Dilemmas of Uneven and Combined Development (ucd): 'the Biggest Agony of the Turkish Spirit'(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Yalvac, Faruk; Akcali, OeznurRecent studies of international historical sociology have focused more on the interaction between the political and economic aspects of the world system compared to its cultural dimensions. In this article we want to address this lacuna with particular reference to the theory of Uneven and Combined Development (UCD here after). UCD is an attempt to develop a non-Eurocentric, non-linear, and historical understanding of international relations. It aims to provide a non-Eurocentric historiography and historical sociology that goes beyond binary oppositions of East and West, tradition and modernity, and emphasizes non-Western agency in shaping historical developments. The cultural implications of UCD has recently been revived in world literature and cultural studies. We seek to contribute to this research by illustrating how UCD can help us understand the cultural implications of societal interaction through the use of Turkish literature, notably Peyami Safa's work. We want to focus on the theme of the interaction between the West and the East in his work within the context of the theory of UCD as an example of how it manifests itself in the cultural field. Accordingly, the article is structured as follows. The first section discusses the key features of UCD as they relate to our topic, and the second section goes on to examine processes of Westernisation as they have occurred in Turkey and attempts to demonstrate how UCD is reflected in the literature of the period. The third section aims to show how the concept of UCD can help us better understand the implications of societal interaction in Peyami Safa's work by addressing the various issues that are raised in Justin Rosenberg's approach to analysing world literature. The final section concludes with general observations concerning the potential utility of UCD-based methodologies in constituting the foundation of non-Western IR theories.Article Citation - WoS: 25Citation - Scopus: 27Inflation Uncertainty and Interest Rates: Is the Fisher Relation Universal?(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007) Berument, Hakan; Ceylan, Nildag Basak; Olgun, HasanThis paper tests the validity of the Fisher hypothesis, which establishes a positive relation between interest rates and expected inflation, for the G7 countries and 45 developing economies. For this purpose, we estimate a version of the GARCH specification of the hypothesis for all countries included in the sample. We also test the augmented Fisher relation by including the inflation uncertainty in the equation. The simple Fisher relation holds in all G7 countries but in only 23 developing countries. There is a positive and statistically significant relationship between interest rates and inflation uncertainty for six of the G7 and 18 of the developing countries and this relationship is negative for seven developing countries.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3Opost-Turkisho Studies and Political Narrative(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009) Stone, LeonardNarrative is underscored with multilinear, micro-exemplars of political phenomena. This article examines political narratives on the Republic of Turkey that form mainstream paradigmatic approaches. By attending to narrative inconsistencies and to paradigmatic narrative arrays, forms, and processes, this article explores convergent discourses that imply a structured political narrative on modern Turkey. Particular discourse constructions are analyzed, such as the Kemalist narrative and Turkey and identity. The paper asks if the Republic of Turkey is reducible to the customary coordinates of unifying narratives in light of the existence of irreconcilable spacespre-emergent spaces that can be located within post-Turkish studies.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 4Europeanization of State Capacity and Foreign Policy: Turkey in the Middle East(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Gunay, DefneTurkey's growing regional presence in the Middle East has been at the centre of several debates recently. This article approaches the debate on Turkey's foreign policy towards the Middle East from a Europeanization perspective. The article assesses the Europeanization of state capacity in relation to Turkey's foreign policy towards the Arab Middle East from 1999 to 2010. It is argued that Turkey's EU accession process has transformed the state, business and increased state capacity to implement Turkey's foreign policy towards the Middle East. This transformation enabled the Turkish government and business actors to improve Turkey's political and economic relations with the Arab Middle East.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 11Negative Campaigning in Turkish Elections(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Toros, EmreThe academic literature on negative campaigning is growing. As an attempt to contribute to the theoretical and empirical knowledge on the phenomena, this study focuses on the Turkish elections and tries to provide answers to the following research questions: What is the level of negativity in Turkish electoral campaigns and which factors are salient for going negative for Turkish political parties? Findings display the fact that negativity is noticeably high in Turkey, and incumbency, ideology and time focus of messages are salient factors for negativity.Article When Anger Turns Into Rage: Displacement in John Osborne'slook Back in Anger(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Izmir, Sibel[No Abstract Available]Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 11Usages of Europe in Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Gunay, Defne; Renda, KaanEuropeanization of foreign policy is often studied from the perspective of the impact of European Union (EU) membership on national foreign policies. What go largely unnoticed are the numerous usages of the EU in presenting, justifying and implementing foreign policy at home and abroad. This paper addresses this lacuna in the literature by exploring how Turkish foreign policy actors have construed and used the EU to justify and explain Turkey's foreign policy towards the Middle East in the domestic and the Middle Eastern context. We draw upon a sociological approach to Europeanization and argue that the usages of the EU in the construction of Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East vary according to the context.Article Citation - WoS: 29Citation - Scopus: 41Reproducing the Paradigm of Democracy in Turkey: Parochial Democratization in the Decade of Justice and Development Party(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Cinar, Menderes; Sayin, CagkanRecent democratic performance of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) indicates the dissolution of its original liberal ambiguity in ways that hinder the possibilities of a full-fledged democracy in Turkey. This study finds the explanation in the perpetuation of a specifically Turkish paradigm of democracy/democratization, which has emerged in the early years of the Turkish experiment with democracy and has been reproduced by the Turkish political class ever since. In doing so, the article draws attention to the predominance of a defective conceptualization of democracy, which, while emphasizing the elected government's supremacy over the tutelary state elite, fails to come to terms with the inevitability of political disagreement and the normative imperative of seeking consensus for a positivesum politics.Editorial Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Tourism and the Third Sector(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Gunes, Gul[No Abstract Available]
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