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  • 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 ...
  • The re-organization of the main islamic communities in Turkey, in the post 1980 coup era 
    Bilgili, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis aims to provide a preliminary investigation and evaluation of themain Islamic Communities̕ (namely Nurcu, Süleymancı and İskenderpasa Communities) re-organization during the post 1980 coup era. This thesis ...
  • Political economy of agricultural protectionism in the EU and US 
    Saraç, Esin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Until the Uruguay Round, agriculture was an exceptional issue in international trade talks. However, at the end of the Uruguay Round, the agricultural sector was brought under the WTO disciplines. The proponents of 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 revolution of 1908 and the working class in Turkey 
    Dinçer, Sinan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis analyzes the emergence and escalation class antagonism between Young Turksand the working class in Turkey in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1908. Focusing on thecase of the Socialist Workers̕ Federation of ...
  • Small business associations in Turkey: relations with big business and the state since the 1980s 
    Kılıçdağı, Tülay Ayalp. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis examines the proliferation of small business associations in thelast two decades in Turkey with an emphasis on the ideological diversification among them, as well as their relations with big business and the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Civil society and democracy: the case of a migrant association 
    Demirkaya, Betül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis aims to discuss the relationship between civil society and democracy by examining the case of a migrant association in Istanbul founded by people comingfrom a town in the Black Sea region. In-depth interviews ...
  • 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 ...
  • Islamic economics: the Islamic Bourgeoisie and the Imagined Community 
    Doherty, Joseph S. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this thesis I examine the languge of the Islamic Bourgeoisie in Turkey as represented by MUSIAD, a business association known for its religious conservatism, to show that the Islamic bourgeoisie imparts its own meaning ...
  • 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 ...
  • The evolution of immigration and asylum policies in the European Union from public good-collective action perspective 
    Okyay, Aslı Selin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    As the issues of immigration and asylum began to occupy more space in the 1980s in the lives of a wide range of people in Europe, from immigrants to the citizens of the receiving societies, from refugees to the politicians ...
  • Politics of motherhood and the experience of the mothers of peace in Turkey 
    Aslan, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis questions the limits of politics of motherhood in Turkey within the context of the Mothers of Peace. It focuses on the narratives of the women in the Mothers of Peace and the public discourses about motherhood ...
  • The Gülen movement: perceptions of democracy, secularism, religion and public sphere 
    Özer, Metin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to provide an investigation of the Gülen Community’s perception of the state, democracy and secularism as well as the public- private sphere distinction and to provide an evaluation of these perceptions ...
  • The impact of the US unilateralism on international law: the situation of jus ad bellum after September 11 
    Yüce, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aims at addressing the question of what can be the long-term implications of the US unilateralism on international law especially on jus ad bellum with regard to the United States’ hegemonic position in the ...
  • A "democratic realist" foreign policy: U.S. democracy promotion in the Middle East and the case of Egypt 
    Yaylacı, İsmail. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis analyzes the vision that governs U.S. democracy promotion policy in the Middle East that has been put into practice after September 11 in the particular case of Egypt. The thesis argues that U.S. democracy ...
  • Global trends, domestic institutions and contemporary organized labor: the case of Turkey 
    Silva, Jeremy Michael. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Labor across the globe has been suffering a downturn in its membership which has been blamed on the process of globalization and more specifically on union’s inability to adapt to the realities of transnational capital. ...
  • The political economy of banking sector regulation: the case of post-1980 Turkey 
    Yönezer, Cengiz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Banking sector is without a doubt one of the most regulated industries in the world, since banks had a central role in financial mediation for centuries. State has regulated the banking sector in order to protect depositors’ ...
  • German call centers in Istanbul: Beyond the global and the local 
    Neitzert, Alina Belinda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The 1990s witnessed the rise of call centers as a new form of work organization. The 2000s saw the next stage of the call center phenomenon in the form of large-scale outsourcing of call center operations to low-wage ...
  • The ambivalence of Alevi politic(s): a comparative analysis of Cem Vakfı and Pir Sultan Abdal Kültür Derneği 
    Aslan, Seçil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    By the late 1980s and especially in the 1990s, after centuries of repression, “suddenly” Alevism/Aleviness became visible in the public sphere. Yet, this visibility was not limited to the borders of the Alevi community. ...

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