Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
In today's globalized world, it is seen that the displaced population reached a level that ca... more In today's globalized world, it is seen that the displaced population reached a level that can be interpreted as the highest value in the human history. Thus, various researchers have conducted studies to theorise the concept of the displaced people and migration. Because scholars and policy-makers have not agreed on the fact that environmental change has affected the displaced people and hence, they should be classified as “Environmental Refugees” and given refugee status, the topic in question is evaluated as problematic. The current paper focuses on this argument and discusses how environmental change has influenced migration in Asia in which half of the world's population reside, and economic and social changes occur in a short time and at a great rate. The paper also explains the “Environmental Refugees” term and argues that the term can be used to describe people who have left their origins because of environmental change.
II. Meşrutiyet, Modern Cumhuriyet’in temellerinin atıldığı bir dönemdir ve bu dönemin en önemli a... more II. Meşrutiyet, Modern Cumhuriyet’in temellerinin atıldığı bir dönemdir ve bu dönemin en önemli aktörlerinin başında yurt dışında örgütlenen ve Batılılaşma fikriyatını gaye-i hayal edinen İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti yer almaktadır. Zamanla siyasal yaşamın odak noktası haline gelen Cemiyet, parlamenter sistemin tanıtılması ve topluma mal edilmesine öncülük etmiştir. Ancak, Cemiyet’in ordu ile iç içe geçmiş girift yapısı çeşitli müdahalelerle parlamenter rejimin terk edilmesine, ordu içerisinde muhtelif hizipleşmelerin ve bölünmelerin belirmesine sebebiyet vermiştir. Bahse konu klikleşme oluşumlarından biri Halaskârân-ı Zabıtân Grubu’nun ortaya çıkışıdır. Bu Grubun önemi siyasal yaşamda fiziki bir mevcudiyeti bulunmamasına rağmen muhtıralarla İttihatçı iktidarın düşmesine yol açmasıdır. Bu bağlamda bir ilki oluşturmaktadır ve II. Meşrutiyet döneminde cereyan eden bu hadise, çok partili siyasal yaşamın muhtelif dönemlerinde tekerrür etmiştir. Bu itibarla askeri muhtıraların anlaşılabil...
The European Union (EU) has formally initiated the vast majority of the Central and Eastern Europ... more The European Union (EU) has formally initiated the vast majority of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECS) into the Union and Western Balkans' remaining non-EU countries have became the new target of EU enlargement since 2004. The Union, however, has faced some difficulties in transferring its rules to non-member countries in Western Balkans by means of the EU political accession conditionality in comparison to Central and Eastern European Countries. Here are two questions to mind: 'Under what circumstances could the conditionality be effective?' and 'why does the EU conditionality play relatively limited role in the domestic politics of the Western Balkan states?' An "external incentive model" is adopted by Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier (2004) to articulate the issue. This study addresses this contestation, arguing that the "external incentive model" is incapable of fully answering these questions and that national identity has a huge impact on the determination of the effectiveness of EU accession conditionality by focusing on the problems limiting this effectiveness in two Balkan states, namely Croatia and Serbia. The reasons why the paper has chosen Croatia and Serbia as case studies are that they are republics of former Yugoslavia and that they have shared war history in the 1990s, however act differently on the way to the European Union (Massari, 2010). Although Croatia has become a member of the Union, Serbia still has got a long way to go.
The ultimate aim of any successful counterinsurgency approach is to defeat the insurgency and est... more The ultimate aim of any successful counterinsurgency approach is to defeat the insurgency and establish peace for the host country. In order for the counterinsurgent to achieve this aim, there are two approaches to adopt; simply through heavy use of force or through winning hearts and minds of the local population. This paper deals with the US Counterinsurgency approach, which is depicted as a kinder or gentle warfare, arguing that the adaptation of a people-centric approach and of Human Terrain System (HTS), merely cover up the high-impact war-fighting; somehow, the military is deployed to carry out commands in a kinder light, and high impact war fighting is an inherent part of the current counterinsurgency doctrine.
Aksaray Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
Studies of democratization have developed and have become increasingly more sophisticated across ... more Studies of democratization have developed and have become increasingly more sophisticated across the past 20 years as a result of new datasets being completed and shared. Scholars have written widely on the subject and have offered explanations of transitions to democracy, but some of these explanations are incoherent with others. This paper offers a discussion of a variety of conditions which provide fertile soil for transitions to democracy, ranging from military rule and religion to economic development. Addressing this contestation, the paper argues that there is no single explanation for the transition to democracy and that it requires very sophisticated thinking to determine the conditions for democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
In today's globalized world, it is seen that the displaced population reached a level that ca... more In today's globalized world, it is seen that the displaced population reached a level that can be interpreted as the highest value in the human history. Thus, various researchers have conducted studies to theorise the concept of the displaced people and migration. Because scholars and policy-makers have not agreed on the fact that environmental change has affected the displaced people and hence, they should be classified as “Environmental Refugees” and given refugee status, the topic in question is evaluated as problematic. The current paper focuses on this argument and discusses how environmental change has influenced migration in Asia in which half of the world's population reside, and economic and social changes occur in a short time and at a great rate. The paper also explains the “Environmental Refugees” term and argues that the term can be used to describe people who have left their origins because of environmental change.
II. Meşrutiyet, Modern Cumhuriyet’in temellerinin atıldığı bir dönemdir ve bu dönemin en önemli a... more II. Meşrutiyet, Modern Cumhuriyet’in temellerinin atıldığı bir dönemdir ve bu dönemin en önemli aktörlerinin başında yurt dışında örgütlenen ve Batılılaşma fikriyatını gaye-i hayal edinen İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti yer almaktadır. Zamanla siyasal yaşamın odak noktası haline gelen Cemiyet, parlamenter sistemin tanıtılması ve topluma mal edilmesine öncülük etmiştir. Ancak, Cemiyet’in ordu ile iç içe geçmiş girift yapısı çeşitli müdahalelerle parlamenter rejimin terk edilmesine, ordu içerisinde muhtelif hizipleşmelerin ve bölünmelerin belirmesine sebebiyet vermiştir. Bahse konu klikleşme oluşumlarından biri Halaskârân-ı Zabıtân Grubu’nun ortaya çıkışıdır. Bu Grubun önemi siyasal yaşamda fiziki bir mevcudiyeti bulunmamasına rağmen muhtıralarla İttihatçı iktidarın düşmesine yol açmasıdır. Bu bağlamda bir ilki oluşturmaktadır ve II. Meşrutiyet döneminde cereyan eden bu hadise, çok partili siyasal yaşamın muhtelif dönemlerinde tekerrür etmiştir. Bu itibarla askeri muhtıraların anlaşılabil...
The European Union (EU) has formally initiated the vast majority of the Central and Eastern Europ... more The European Union (EU) has formally initiated the vast majority of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECS) into the Union and Western Balkans' remaining non-EU countries have became the new target of EU enlargement since 2004. The Union, however, has faced some difficulties in transferring its rules to non-member countries in Western Balkans by means of the EU political accession conditionality in comparison to Central and Eastern European Countries. Here are two questions to mind: 'Under what circumstances could the conditionality be effective?' and 'why does the EU conditionality play relatively limited role in the domestic politics of the Western Balkan states?' An "external incentive model" is adopted by Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier (2004) to articulate the issue. This study addresses this contestation, arguing that the "external incentive model" is incapable of fully answering these questions and that national identity has a huge impact on the determination of the effectiveness of EU accession conditionality by focusing on the problems limiting this effectiveness in two Balkan states, namely Croatia and Serbia. The reasons why the paper has chosen Croatia and Serbia as case studies are that they are republics of former Yugoslavia and that they have shared war history in the 1990s, however act differently on the way to the European Union (Massari, 2010). Although Croatia has become a member of the Union, Serbia still has got a long way to go.
The ultimate aim of any successful counterinsurgency approach is to defeat the insurgency and est... more The ultimate aim of any successful counterinsurgency approach is to defeat the insurgency and establish peace for the host country. In order for the counterinsurgent to achieve this aim, there are two approaches to adopt; simply through heavy use of force or through winning hearts and minds of the local population. This paper deals with the US Counterinsurgency approach, which is depicted as a kinder or gentle warfare, arguing that the adaptation of a people-centric approach and of Human Terrain System (HTS), merely cover up the high-impact war-fighting; somehow, the military is deployed to carry out commands in a kinder light, and high impact war fighting is an inherent part of the current counterinsurgency doctrine.
Aksaray Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
Studies of democratization have developed and have become increasingly more sophisticated across ... more Studies of democratization have developed and have become increasingly more sophisticated across the past 20 years as a result of new datasets being completed and shared. Scholars have written widely on the subject and have offered explanations of transitions to democracy, but some of these explanations are incoherent with others. This paper offers a discussion of a variety of conditions which provide fertile soil for transitions to democracy, ranging from military rule and religion to economic development. Addressing this contestation, the paper argues that there is no single explanation for the transition to democracy and that it requires very sophisticated thinking to determine the conditions for democratization.
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