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  • An evaluation of European monetary union in its fifth year 
    Ünlü, Cenk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This master thesis re-evaluates the costs and benefits of the EMU from a broader perspective in the light of the performance of EMU. This study tries to reveal the answers to two major questions. One: Is entering the EMU ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kosovo problem and options to final status 
    Troşala, Arzu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Few places in the world of the size and population of Kosovo have received an attention both among policy makers and academics. Why is Kosovo important? The Kosovo problem deserves attention because it occupies a central ...
  • Rethinking the peculiarity of Turkish experience with Islamism 
    Sarıkaya, Ali. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis takes up the peculiar development of Political Islam in Turkish politics. It is generally argued that the rise of Islamist movements constitutes a serious barrier to the democratization of Muslim countries. ...
  • The European Security and Defense Policy and its implementation in Kosovo and Post September 11 
    Bayrak, Yunus Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis intends to analyze the development of ESDP before and after the Cold War and its implementation in Kosovo and post-September 11. Accordingly this thesis basically intends to analyze to what extent the EU can ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 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 ...
  • Fazlur Rahman's Islamic modernism 
    Özkahraman, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis discusses the Islamic modernism of Fazlur Rahman, adistinguished theologian who conceptualized a new understanding of Islam in orderto reconcile it with modern developments. Generally, religion is seen ...
  • Positions and oppositions: Greek foreign policy towards Turkey's accession to the EC/EU (1987-2002) 
    Kitidi, Aikaterini. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis concerns the Greek policy towards Turkey's accession to the EC/ EU. The instigation for this thesis was the observation of a complete reversion in the Greek policy during that period, from a negative to a very ...
  • 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, ...
  • Re-articulation of the sign of Turkish National identity through the discursive performances of the Arab "other": the case of Arabs in Batman 
    Moustafa, Süheyla Nil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis aims to provide an elaborated understanding of the concept of national identity through an exploration of the cultural identities of the Arab community in Batman and the consolidation of the Arab communal ...
  • The emergence of a new type of NGO: think-firms. A study of the ARI and ESI (European Stability Initiative) movements in the context of Turkey's integration to the EU 
    Akçalı, Hatice Selen. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Different kind of civil society organizations unveiled as the relevant actors of the international society with the end of the Cold War. The study stresses new type of civil society organizations which are implemented in ...
  • Citizenship and identity in Turkey: the case of the post-1980 Turkish-muslim immigrants from Macedonia 
    Beltan, Sude Bahar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study traces the relationship between citizenship and identity in Turkey through analyzing the narratives and experiences of the post-1980 Turkish-Muslimimmigrants from Macedonia. It inquires the ways in which the ...
  • Coming to terms with the past: narrating the 12 September 1980 military coup 
    Binay, Sema. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis is concerned with the meaning of the 12 September 1980 military coup at the present, and it aims to examine the representations and justifications of the coup, and the politics of coming to terms with it. In ...

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