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The primary objective of this article is to present an up-to-date and analytically valid concepti... more The primary objective of this article is to present an up-to-date and analytically valid conception of contemporary international politics by mainly drawing on the seminal work of Hardt and Negri (2000) called Empire. In line with this objective, this study argues that Empire, as a theoretical framework, provides a more comprehensive analysis of today’s globalising world. However, rather than explaining the constitution of Empire in mainly juridical and political terms, as Hardt and Negri did, this study aims to present a slightly different reading of the conception of Empire by associating the matter with the transnationalization of capital, state and social relations of production widely labelled as globalization. To that end, the article puts the conception of Empire into a more concrete economic context by placing particular emphasis on factors such as capital accumulation process, class formation and state-capital relations as understood in the theory of Global Capitalism.
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
Is dependency theory dead as an explanation of underdevelopment today? Today, a broad consensus a... more Is dependency theory dead as an explanation of underdevelopment today? Today, a broad consensus answers this question in the affirmative. In contrast to this commonly-held contention, this study counter-argues that despite the need of refinement to account for the recent changes that have taken place in global economy, a certain strand of dependency analyses still maintains validity, and offers inspirations for those wanting to address limits and prospects of capitalist development. The study first critically surveys the barrage of criticisms levied against the dependency school, since any revisiting of this archaic line of thought might be quite easily subjected to an outright dismissal beforehand. Then, the study reveals that the conceptualization of dependency as elaborated by historical-structural dependency analyses still maintains validity, and when wisely applied to the new conditions, offers a basilar IPE framework to address the limits, prospects, and divergent patterns of ...
With the rise of intra-state conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in the last two decades,... more With the rise of intra-state conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in the last two
decades, the causality relationship between oil wealth and political stability has
become a matter of debate in the literature. However, despite the proliferating
research interest, the impact of oil revenues on regime stability and civil conflicts still
remains contested in both theoretical and empiricalterms. Bearing this limitation in
mind, this article aims to present a fairly general but analytically broadened
framework to explain the relationship between the decline of the oil-rentier states, and
the rise of intra-state conflicts experienced in the Middle East in the past two decades.
Putting matter into the historical context of the state formation and the colonial legacy
in the Middle East this study presents a slightly different reading of the causality
relation between oil revenue and the conflict-proneness of rentier states. Thus this
article, to a certain extent, moves beyond the conventional explanations of the rentier
state theory and argues that oil revenue cannot be taken as an explanatory variable
of conflicts per se.
This article pursues two main objectives. First, mainly drawing on empirical evidences rather th... more This article pursues two main objectives. First, mainly drawing on empirical evidences
rather than journalistic impressions and reports onthe Arap Spring, it aims to provide
an in-depth analysis of the sets of socio-economic and socio-political factors that have
been deeply rooted in the region for more than halfa century and which have driven
(and continue to drive) a wave of uprisings across the region commonly labelled as the
‘Arab Spring’. Thus, this study expects to present a slightly different reading of the Arap
Spring by placing the issue into the socio-economicand socio-political context of the
recent past. Secondly, by considering a range of factors such as the responses of the
regimes, the role of security forces, the ethnic and sectarian makeup of the societies and
the politico-institutional feature of states, it explains how the unfolding of events has
differed from country to country and why some uprisings have succeeded in toppling
regimes and others have not.
Globalization, in its simple terms, has tended to be seen as a process in which economic unifica... more Globalization, in its simple terms, has tended to be seen as a process in which
economic unification of the globe comes into being through the integration national
economies under a single grid of market. Rather than viewing globalization in
merely economic terms, this article first aims to reconceptualize globalization in its
broader sense as a multidimensional social process by looking into the various
dimensions of globalization in the light of what Tomlinson (1999) calls complex
connectivity. In doing so, this study secondly intends to critically examine two
widely accepted and interrelated notions; (1) globalization, as a phenomenon,
primarily associates with the economic integration of national economies into a
single world market, operating in compliance with the creed of capitalism; and (2)
globalization, in its cultural sense, refers to hegemonic domination of the West on
the rest of the world appearing in the form of “cultural imperialism” or
“Americanization”. To put it in an argumentative way, the article suggests that
globalization does refer neither to the march of capitalism as an all-embracing
economic system on a global scale nor to a new version of cultural imperialism
signalling the convergence toward common set of cultural traits and practices, goes
under the name of Westernization or Americanization.
Özet Bu makelenin başlıca amacı ABD liderliğindeki Batıdan Çin liderliğindeki Doğuya doğru bir he... more Özet Bu makelenin başlıca amacı ABD liderliğindeki Batıdan Çin liderliğindeki Doğuya doğru bir hegemonik güç kaymasının olduğu fikrine ekonomik bakımdan açıklık getirmektir. Bu bağlamda, çalışma küresel ekonomik liderliğin karşılaştıma kriterleri olarak bir dizi ekonomik gösterge ışığında güç kayması varsayımının ampirik bir eleştirisini sunacaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda bu çalışma, küresel ekonomi ile bütünleşme tarzının Çin'e yüksek büyüme oranları ve artan yabancı sermaye yatırımları getirdiğini, fakat büyüyen ekonomik ölçeğe rağmen Çin'in, bilgi ve teknoloji tabanlı üretim kapasitesi, yüksek katma değerli üretim, küresel rekabet düzeyi ve bilim/teknoloji alanındaki liderlik gibi asli ekonomik alanlarda hala ABD'nin gerisinde kaldığını öne sürecektir. Abstract The primary aim of this article is to demystify the notion of a hegemonic shift from the US-led West to the China-led East in an economic sense. In this regard, this study presents an emprical critique of the power-shift hypothesis in the light of a range of economic indicators as comparison criteria of global economic leadership. In parallel with this purpose, this study suggests that the way in which 98 itobiad
The primary objective of this article is to explore the role of media in the outcomes of 21st-cen... more The primary objective of this article is to explore the role of media in the outcomes of 21st-century conflicts in the light of two cases: the War on Terror and the 2008-2009 Gaza War. In line with this objective, this study first critically evaluates CNN effect and Manufacturing Consent theories as two main theoretical approaches to the mediapolitics relations in international conflicts. Secondly, it offers an insight into media-policy interaction model both as a solution to the theoretical deadlock between these theories and as a conceptual framework for understanding the role of media in determining the outcome of 21st-century conflicts. Lastly, the question of ‘To what extent do the media determine
the outcome of 21st-century conflicts?’ is answered by analyzing media coverage of the War on Terror and the 2008-2009 Gaza War in the light of media-policy interaction model.
The primary objective of this article is to present an up-to-date and analytically valid concepti... more The primary objective of this article is to present an up-to-date and analytically valid conception of contemporary international politics by mainly drawing on the seminal work of Hardt and Negri (2000) called Empire. In line with this objective, this study argues that Empire, as a theoretical framework, provides a more comprehensive analysis of today’s globalising world. However, rather than explaining the constitution of Empire in mainly juridical and political terms, as Hardt and Negri did, this study aims to present a slightly different reading of the conception of Empire by associating the matter with the transnationalization of capital, state and social relations of production widely labelled as globalization. To that end, the article puts the conception of Empire into a more concrete economic context by placing particular emphasis on factors such as capital accumulation process, class formation and state-capital relations as understood in the theory of Global Capitalism.
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
Is dependency theory dead as an explanation of underdevelopment today? Today, a broad consensus a... more Is dependency theory dead as an explanation of underdevelopment today? Today, a broad consensus answers this question in the affirmative. In contrast to this commonly-held contention, this study counter-argues that despite the need of refinement to account for the recent changes that have taken place in global economy, a certain strand of dependency analyses still maintains validity, and offers inspirations for those wanting to address limits and prospects of capitalist development. The study first critically surveys the barrage of criticisms levied against the dependency school, since any revisiting of this archaic line of thought might be quite easily subjected to an outright dismissal beforehand. Then, the study reveals that the conceptualization of dependency as elaborated by historical-structural dependency analyses still maintains validity, and when wisely applied to the new conditions, offers a basilar IPE framework to address the limits, prospects, and divergent patterns of ...
With the rise of intra-state conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in the last two decades,... more With the rise of intra-state conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in the last two
decades, the causality relationship between oil wealth and political stability has
become a matter of debate in the literature. However, despite the proliferating
research interest, the impact of oil revenues on regime stability and civil conflicts still
remains contested in both theoretical and empiricalterms. Bearing this limitation in
mind, this article aims to present a fairly general but analytically broadened
framework to explain the relationship between the decline of the oil-rentier states, and
the rise of intra-state conflicts experienced in the Middle East in the past two decades.
Putting matter into the historical context of the state formation and the colonial legacy
in the Middle East this study presents a slightly different reading of the causality
relation between oil revenue and the conflict-proneness of rentier states. Thus this
article, to a certain extent, moves beyond the conventional explanations of the rentier
state theory and argues that oil revenue cannot be taken as an explanatory variable
of conflicts per se.
This article pursues two main objectives. First, mainly drawing on empirical evidences rather th... more This article pursues two main objectives. First, mainly drawing on empirical evidences
rather than journalistic impressions and reports onthe Arap Spring, it aims to provide
an in-depth analysis of the sets of socio-economic and socio-political factors that have
been deeply rooted in the region for more than halfa century and which have driven
(and continue to drive) a wave of uprisings across the region commonly labelled as the
‘Arab Spring’. Thus, this study expects to present a slightly different reading of the Arap
Spring by placing the issue into the socio-economicand socio-political context of the
recent past. Secondly, by considering a range of factors such as the responses of the
regimes, the role of security forces, the ethnic and sectarian makeup of the societies and
the politico-institutional feature of states, it explains how the unfolding of events has
differed from country to country and why some uprisings have succeeded in toppling
regimes and others have not.
Globalization, in its simple terms, has tended to be seen as a process in which economic unifica... more Globalization, in its simple terms, has tended to be seen as a process in which
economic unification of the globe comes into being through the integration national
economies under a single grid of market. Rather than viewing globalization in
merely economic terms, this article first aims to reconceptualize globalization in its
broader sense as a multidimensional social process by looking into the various
dimensions of globalization in the light of what Tomlinson (1999) calls complex
connectivity. In doing so, this study secondly intends to critically examine two
widely accepted and interrelated notions; (1) globalization, as a phenomenon,
primarily associates with the economic integration of national economies into a
single world market, operating in compliance with the creed of capitalism; and (2)
globalization, in its cultural sense, refers to hegemonic domination of the West on
the rest of the world appearing in the form of “cultural imperialism” or
“Americanization”. To put it in an argumentative way, the article suggests that
globalization does refer neither to the march of capitalism as an all-embracing
economic system on a global scale nor to a new version of cultural imperialism
signalling the convergence toward common set of cultural traits and practices, goes
under the name of Westernization or Americanization.
Özet Bu makelenin başlıca amacı ABD liderliğindeki Batıdan Çin liderliğindeki Doğuya doğru bir he... more Özet Bu makelenin başlıca amacı ABD liderliğindeki Batıdan Çin liderliğindeki Doğuya doğru bir hegemonik güç kaymasının olduğu fikrine ekonomik bakımdan açıklık getirmektir. Bu bağlamda, çalışma küresel ekonomik liderliğin karşılaştıma kriterleri olarak bir dizi ekonomik gösterge ışığında güç kayması varsayımının ampirik bir eleştirisini sunacaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda bu çalışma, küresel ekonomi ile bütünleşme tarzının Çin'e yüksek büyüme oranları ve artan yabancı sermaye yatırımları getirdiğini, fakat büyüyen ekonomik ölçeğe rağmen Çin'in, bilgi ve teknoloji tabanlı üretim kapasitesi, yüksek katma değerli üretim, küresel rekabet düzeyi ve bilim/teknoloji alanındaki liderlik gibi asli ekonomik alanlarda hala ABD'nin gerisinde kaldığını öne sürecektir. Abstract The primary aim of this article is to demystify the notion of a hegemonic shift from the US-led West to the China-led East in an economic sense. In this regard, this study presents an emprical critique of the power-shift hypothesis in the light of a range of economic indicators as comparison criteria of global economic leadership. In parallel with this purpose, this study suggests that the way in which 98 itobiad
The primary objective of this article is to explore the role of media in the outcomes of 21st-cen... more The primary objective of this article is to explore the role of media in the outcomes of 21st-century conflicts in the light of two cases: the War on Terror and the 2008-2009 Gaza War. In line with this objective, this study first critically evaluates CNN effect and Manufacturing Consent theories as two main theoretical approaches to the mediapolitics relations in international conflicts. Secondly, it offers an insight into media-policy interaction model both as a solution to the theoretical deadlock between these theories and as a conceptual framework for understanding the role of media in determining the outcome of 21st-century conflicts. Lastly, the question of ‘To what extent do the media determine
the outcome of 21st-century conflicts?’ is answered by analyzing media coverage of the War on Terror and the 2008-2009 Gaza War in the light of media-policy interaction model.