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  • The role of the Egyptian military as an economic actor in business 
    Murat, Ömer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The purpose of the present study is to examine the role of the Egyptian military as an economic actor in business. In Egypt, the military runs some important agricultural, industrial and infrastructure enterprises. The ...
  • The role of the IMF in the Turkish financial crisis of 2000-2001: a comparison with the Mexican crisis of 1994 and the Thai crisis of 1997 
    Çavdar, Fazilet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The purpose of this study is to present the argument that the financial crises, since the 1990s in the emerging market countries, are an outcome of their commitment to integration with the global financial markets through ...
  • The role of the military in democratization processes: The cases of Egypt and Tunisia 
    Küçük, Ömer Naim. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Why do some militaries allow institutionalization of democratic reforms, whereas others disrupt them? By process-tracing the critical processes in Tunisia and Egypt, this research examines why the Egyptian military ...
  • 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 ...
  • The second economic congress of Turkey: 1948-Istanbul 
    Çabuklu, Yaşar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983)
  • The Serbo-Croat relations in Yugoslavia 
    Sancaktar, Caner. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The First Yugoslavia was founded as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 December 1918, and its name was changed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Royal Coup in 1929. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was destroyed and ...
  • 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 teachers of the republic: mediating between state and students 
    Yalaz, Evren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The purpose of this study is to examine how primary school teachers mediate the republican ideology. It aims to analyze how the teachers both contribute to there production and reinforcement of the official ideology, and ...
  • The unbearable lightness of cyber: Cyberspace and state sovereignty 
    Can, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    thesis explores the relationship between the cyberspace, which has turned into an inseparable part of individual and social life in every way imaginable and state sovereignty, a fundamental concept of the political science ...
  • The wall and the nonviolent anti-wall movements: understanding the change in the politics of Israel-Palestine 
    Bakkalbaşıoğlu, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study examines the relation between nonviolent social movements and the West Bank Wall in order to understand the changes that occurred in the politics of Israel-Palestine after the construction of the Wall. The ...
  • Threat perception, contact and social distance :|factors that affect public opinion on Syrians in Turkey 
    Eşigül, Aşkınnur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the factors that affect opinion on Syrians. Relying on the literature, perceived threat is offered as the main explanatory variable, alongside contact with Syrians and social distance. A secondary ...
  • Threatening security: Conflicting conceptualizations of security during the Gezi Park protests 
    Güngör, Mustafa Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    18 days of resistance against the destruction of Gezi Park at the heart of Istanbul opened up a new phase for the public political debate in Turkey. For a while, neither the government and its supporters nor separate ...
  • Transnational remittances and irregularity: remitting practices of Post-Soviet labor migrants in Istanbul 
    Ergünöz, Mehtap. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis examines migrants’ remitting practices, which constitute a much neglected issue in the literature, with the case of Post-Soviet irregular labor migrants in Istanbul based on the data collected through semi-structured ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Understanding the “Harmonization” of Syrians :|the politics of implementation at the local level 
    Gürlek, Seden. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis studies the implementation processes of Syrian refugee incorporation projects at the local level in Turkey. Recognizing the municipalities’ increased role in refugee incorporation due to being the first level ...
  • Vicious cycle in the Russo-Japanese territorial dispute 
    Chavynchak, Demir. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The present work is an analysis of the modern Russian foreign policy formulationto explain the recent change of the Russian policy in the territorial dispute with Japan overthe southern Kuril Islands. It evaluates the ...
  • Victory of pleasure and defeat of place. Political implications of contemporary trends in tourism 
    Van Wijck, Fleur Odylle. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study seeks to establish the political implications of contemporary trends in tourism assessed through a critique on capitalism. Literature on contemporary trends in tourism is linked with literature explaining and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Volunteers or governors? Rethinking civil society in Turkey beyond the problematic of democratization: the case of TEGV 
    İpek, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study basically argues that the context of neo-liberal policies and the parallel weakening of the state are considerably significant processes in interpreting civil society in post-1980 Turkey. Based on this argument, ...

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