Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Turkish political culture Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu and Ankara 
    Ünsal, Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The main aim of this thesis has been to analyse Turkey's official ideology's effect on Turkish political culture as it is reflected in Turkish novels during the early Republican era. This aim has been realized through ...
  • The conscious of the presentness as a critical attitude towards the progress: Kant, Arendt, Benjamin 
    Akkanat, Salih. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The main purpose of this thesis is to criticize progressive time conception through highlighting the uniqueness of experience and the autonomy of political judgment. The thesis argues that the particular events cannot be ...
  • From acceptance to rejection: /| Two critical moments of the early history of the Turkish-EEC Relations, 1959 and 1979. 
    Pekiner, Yeşim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The thesis will focus upon the question that after coming from a long tradition of westernization project, which culminated in Turkey's application to the EEC for associate membership in 1959, why the major political actors ...
  • The Challenge ahead: situating Europa 
    Çapan, Zeynep Gülşah. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The aim of this thesis has been to understand the road that European Union identity can take. The thesis argues that 'European' identity is a misnomer because the emerging identity represents a process that emerged out of ...
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Turkish Foreign Policy 
    Ece, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In our increasingly globalizing world, there is one thing that has the potential to affect all of our lives in the same detrimental way. Regardless of nationality, religion, or language terror challenges people's lives and ...
  • Women activism in the former Yugoslav States 
    Erbay, K. Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study questions what kind of factors had an impact on women's organizing during and after the Yugoslav war of 1991-1995. The feminist movement, the Mother's Movement and the anti-war movement in 1990s and their effect ...
  • The psychological response of Turkish business persons towards the economic crises of 2000/2001 
    Algouchaev, Ilnour. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The consequences of the economic crises that hit Turkey first in November 2000 and next in February 2001 have been severe. They have become deep and sustained, like many other economic crises over the world. (Mexico in ...
  • Post-Marxist theories of political action :|a critical review of two paradigmatic proposals 
    Çalkıvik, Aslı Falay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis aims to provide a preliminary investigation and an evaluation of Post-Marxist theories of political action in the age of globalized capitalism. Given the shifting epistemological and ontological premises, what ...
  • Domestic sources of Russian foreign policy and their impact on Russia's relations with Azerbaijan 
    Shirinov, Rashad. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The proposed thesis analyses Russian foreign policy during 90-s. The focus of the study is the domestic actors inside Russian politics and their impact on Russia's relations with its Near Abroad, particularly with its ...
  • Egypt, Arab solidarity and establishing a common front against Israel 1950-1967 
    Nalcıoğlu, Cem Mahmut Turgut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Science, 1983., 1983.)
  • The decline of the center right parties in Turkey in the 1990s: value change or resentment 
    Arıkan, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The center right parties in Turkey have gradually lost support throughout the 1990s. This decline is accompanied by the rise of electoral support for extreme right parties. There are broadly two main arguments that attempt ...
  • Homogenizing a nation: |Turkish national identity and migration-settlement policies of the Turkish Republic (1923-1939) 
    Ülker, Erol. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This study basically aims to analyse the processes of nationalisation and the construction of national identity in Turkey from a historical perspective. One of the main components of the formation of nation-states is ...
  • Radical democratic pluralism : an alternative 
    Yüksel, Ayşe Seda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This study will concentrate on the philosophical debate on pluralism in the last two decades, underlining in particular the radical democratic critique of liberalism through a perspective more sensitive to differences. The ...
  • Solving the crisis of socialism :| two conceptions of social pathology in Honneth’s idea of socialism 
    Öztürk, Yusuf Noyan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In his latest work on the transformative vision of social philosophy, Honneth aims to present a revitalized idea of socialism that can once be a viable source of political ethical orientations. After a normative reconstruction ...
  • A critical analysis :|labor in Marx, Negri and feminist critiques 
    Yaltırık, Talita. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis aims to examine Marx’s and Negri’s understandings of labor and feminist critiques of them by tracing the different interpretations of Marx’s critique of political economy and his understanding of social reality ...
  • The role of nongovernmental organizations in the empowerment of Syrian refugee women in Turkey 
    Bulut, Aybala. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This study examines the role of nongovernmental organizations in eliminating political, social, economic, and gender-based obstacles in the way of ensuring empowerment for Syrian refugee women who fled the Syrian Civil ...
  • Between anxiety and hope :|the ebb and flow of prefigurative politics after Gezi Protests 
    Yumuk, Fahir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis traces one of the enduring legacies of the Gezi Protests, prefigurative politics. Defined as a set of political actions that seeks to realize now the social relations that are aspired to be experienced in the ...
  • Leadership of Meral Akşener :|transforming or reproducing the Turkish nationalist righ 
    Melek, Emircan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Idealism is an eclectic nationalist ideology, where women's visibility is low and masculine indoctrination is dominant. This thesis argues that Meral Akşener transformed the nationalist right in a democratic and feminist ...
  • The role of the military in Turkish and Egyptian politics :|A comparative analysis 
    Koryan, Rita. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    The aim of this thesis has been to make a comparative analysis of military involvement in politics in Turkey and Egypt. This involvement has been studied in the context of modem-republican periods of both countries. After ...
  • A critical examination of Wendy Brown’s and Michel Foucault’s respective understandings of the political 
    Öztürk, İrem Oral. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In her works on neoliberalism, Wendy Brown examines a process in which every sphere of human existence, including the political, has been subjected to neoliberal rationality and economization. Although her analysis is ...

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