Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • The comparative political economy of pharmaceutical intellectual property rights in Mexico and Turkey 
    Bayraktar, İpek Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Since the late twentieth century, the protection of intellectual property has become integral to a free and fair international economic order. The ensuing global harmonization process in intellectual property that aimed ...
  • Comparative study of peace negotiations 
    Yetim, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This study aims to investigate the mechanisms that support the success of peace negotiations. Two main factors are the focus of this work, which are third-party intervention and payoffs of parties. When third-party ...
  • Turkish foreign policy discourse :|a critical evaluation 
    Koçarslan, Yasin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Turkish foreign policy have undergone a critical transformation in the last two decades. This change also affected the discourse adopted by Turkish officials and institutions operating in the foreign affairs domain. ...
  • The state of Turkey’s construction sector during the AKP era 
    Akdoğan, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this research, I focus on the noteworthy performance of Turkey’s construction sector during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) era and examine why the construction sector per se has been promoted by the AKP ...
  • The dynamics of political information environments in the age of misinformation 
    Karaoğlanoğlu, Ural Berk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the relationship between the news consumption behavior of individuals and the types of information environments they are situated within. Investigating the transformation of politics-media-society ...
  • The political economy of Turkey wealth fund :|the interplay between fiscal policy and economic governance 
    Örmeci, Berkay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The studies on the political economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in recent years revealed many aspects of international economic relations, economic policymaking, and domestic political relations. Although the role ...
  • Violence and voting behavior :|evidence from 2015 Turkish elections 
    Erdoğdu, Ulaş. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    How does violence affect voting behavior? Using the Turkish elections in June and November 2015 as a case study, this thesis tries to answer this question. To do that, first, I conduct a variety of quantitative analyses ...
  • Politics of transit in Turkey :|analysis of bilateral energy relations with Russia and the European Union 
    Şahin, Samed. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Turkey is a strategic transit country located on the routes of energy flow between the leading supplier and the largest market in the region, Russia and the European Union (EU). Taking advantage of this geopolitical ...
  • Fethullah Gülen's perception of state and society 
    Altınoğlu, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999., 1999.)
    This study is an analysis of the discourse of Fethullah Gillen, who is the leader of an Islamic community in Turkey, with respect to his perception of state and society. The main problematic of my study is to understand ...