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Conference Object Turkish Discourse on Arab Upheavals in International Environment: Post-Structural Analysis of Un General Assembly Speeches (2011-2018)(İstnabul Şehir University, Center Fore Modern Turkish Studies, 2019) Güleç, CansuWith the outbreak of the grassroots movements in December 2010, the conjuncture of the Middle Eastbegan to undergo a major transformation. The first demonstrations took place in Central Tunisia, andafter a while, a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions spread across thewhole region. With this process, defined as “Arab Spring”, any country affected by the rebellion wavehas experienced different political developments and started to follow different routes. Turkey, as aregional country, has not only monitor developments, but instead followed a very active foreign policytowards the transformations occurred. The aim of this paper is to understand and situate Turkishdiscourse about Arab upheavals in the international environment, specifically in UN General Assembly.Through asking “how” questions, the construction and hierarchical positioning of different actors inthe process will seek to be analyzed. The concepts of “presupposition”, “predication” and “subjectpositioning”, which were borrowed from Roxanne Lynn Doty, will be used as analytical categories toprovide a textual framework. The representational practices through which meaning are generated isimportant in this study. Accordingly, the discursive identities produced by Turkish elites with theirspeech acts will be examined throughout the time in order to understand the attachments to varioussocial objects and subjects in the region. Thus, both continuity and change within the Turkish discoursewould be put forward.Book The Future of Eu-Turkey Relations: a Dynamic Association Framework Amidst Conflictual Cooperation(Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2019) Saatçioğlu, Beken; Tekin, Funda; Ekim, Sinan; Tocci, NathalieThe FEUTURE final synthesis paper accomplishes two principal aims. First, it synthesizes FEUTURE’s research findings that study EU-Turkey relations in the six thematic areas of politics, identity, economy, security, energy and migration, focusing on how their respective drivers generate different degrees of conflict and cooperation in the relationship. Based on this synthesis, it argues that the scenario of “conflictual cooperation” – where cooperation is likely to endure despite the prevalence of conflictual dynamics mostly emanating from politics – is set to define EU-Turkey relations in the foreseeable future. Second, it develops an institutional design for the future relationship which, given the fact that Turkey’s EU accession process has now become dormant, accepts conflict as an endemic feature of the relations but tries to mitigate it by deepening cooperation. Upon assessing differentiated integration models the EU follows with member- and non-member countries, the paper concludes that, as a result of geopolitical proximity as well as deepened, multifarious interactions over several centuries, the EU– Turkey relationship has become too complex and dynamic to be captured by any single such model. It thus suggests a new institutional framework, termed a “dynamic association”, that would be complementary to Turkey’s albeit stalled accession process. While being centered around a rules-based component represented by an upgraded EU-Turkey Customs Union agreement as a starting point, the association also includes more transactional dimensions of cooperation such as migration, security and energy. The paper concludes that conceptualized as such, the dynamic association promises to foster not only cooperative but also convergent trends between the EU and Turkey into and beyond the 2023 timeframe.Conference Object "human Security" From Liberal Perspective: Is It a Comprehensive Model?(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2019) Güleç, CansuClassical liberal ideas were built on the concepts of equality, rationality, freedom and property. In the 18th century, Locke from England, David Hume and Adam Smith in Scotland, Montesque and Voltaire from France and Kant from Germany were the leading liberal thinkers. As an international theory that explained international politics and foreign policy, Liberalism emerged after the First World War. Names like Woodrow Wilson, Hobson, David Mitrany, Karl W. Deutsch, Michael Doyle, Francis Fukuyama, Stanley Hoffmann, Robert O. Keohane are among the most important representatives of liberal thought in international relations. According to Liberalism, world peace might occur with the residence of political and economic liberal norms at both national and international levels; the increase of interdependence and interaction; the international cooperation that carried out under the leadership of intergovernmental organizations; and the protection of human rights and governance. In security studies, the concept of human security is one of the most important concepts of the post-Cold War era that has been scholarly disputed. Indeed, the ethnic and religious-based conflicts after the Cold War led to evolution of the concept “national security” and the increase of the concerns about individual security in international relations. Since then, there have been attempts to “deepen and widen” the concept of security from the level of states to individuals. In that sense, the concept of “human security” considers human being as the reference object of security as well as it places the threats against human beings on the agenda. On the other hand, the mentioned concept objects the monopoly of the state in ensuring security through featuring the actors like international organizations and civil society. Accordingly, the concept of security will be discussed within the scope of liberal theory in this paper. Following the historical evolution, the conceptualizations about human security will be put forward. In addition, the criticisms toward the concept of human security will be analyzed. Finally, the evaluations regarding implementation and execution of human security will be discussed.Presentation The Diplomacy of Water in the Middle East(Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), 2019) Kibaroğlu, AyşegülMiddle East suffers from an abundance of issues that compound water security, including arapidly growing population, uneven economic development, limited amounts of watersupply, negative impacts of climate change and poor water management practices bothwithin and between states. The geopolitical importance of the region, and the conflicts thathave consequently resulted, aggravate the usual problems of using water in a variety ofsettings, such as the Euphrates-Tigris (ET) basin.Transboundary water politics in the ET basin is often marked with political confrontationsamong its major riparians, namely Turkey, Syria and Iraq. However, the basin also hostswater diplomacy governance structures. Thus, the talk will address power dynamics in thebasin with specific references to diplomatic negotiation processes. Bearing in mind thattransboundary water relations in the basin occurs in volatile political circumstances, the talkwill culminate with analyses on the current and emerging issues in the basin, elaborating onthe impact of the Syrian civil war.Book Part Citation - WoS: 3Turkey's Eu Membership Process in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests(Amsterdam Univ Press, 2015) Saatçioğlu, BekenIn May 2013, a small group of protesters made camp in Istanbul's Taksim Square, protesting the privatisation of what had long been a vibrant public space. When the police responded to the demonstration with brutality, the protests exploded in size and force, quickly becoming a massive statement of opposition to the Turkish regime. This book assembles a collection of field research, data, theoretical analyses, and cross-country comparisons to show the significance of the protests both within Turkey and throughout the world.Conference Object Business People in War Times, the ‘shy Capital’ and Diaspora Business: the Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey(2019) Görmüş, Evrim; Akçalı, EmelThis presentation focuses on the Syrian capital flight to Turkey to examine the capacity and/or willingness of the Syrian diaspora business community to organize themselves as interest groups regarding their political and economic interests in Turkey, and to assist the process of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria with a focus on remittances, philanthropy work and participation in peace processes etc.The presentation is based on fieldwork carried out inIstanbul, Adana, Mersin, Hatay, Gaziantep and Bursa, where the majority of the Syrian business is located. We conducted a total of 35 individual semi-structured in-depth interviews with Syrian businesspeople, civil society representatives and local chamber of commerce officials in August-October 2018. Based on the findings of our fieldwork, we argue that the patterns of the Syrian business diaspora engagement in Turkey are mainly shaped by the spatial elements, such as the increasing transnationalization of economic practices in the course of the protracted conflict as well as the historical legacies of state, business and market structure in the pre-war Syria.Conference Object Bedouins and In-Between Border Space in Northern Sinai(2018) Görmüş, EvrimThe northern Sinai as interstice space of contestation offers useful insights concerning the relation between the dynamics of power and resistance. This presentation aims to analyse the complex relationship between the local inhabitants’ belonging and spatial practices by referring to the idea of in-betweenness. The article uses the notion of in-between border space to understand the Bedouins’ changing identity formations within a given spatial situation. It is argued that the decades-long marginalization and oppression of the Bedouins by the Egyptian State turned their borderland region into a space of resistance and leaded to the forming of spatio-temporal identities in-between border space in the northern Sinai.Conference Object Diaspora Business: the Economic Contribution of Syrian Refugees To Turkey and Their Political Role in (post-)conflict Resolution (conferenceobject )(2016) Görmüş, EvrimWhile most research on the refugees has focused on the socio-economic burden that the refugees bring to the host countries, little has thus far been conducted on the contribution of the refugees’ business activity. Due to the continuing civil war in Syria a significant amount of Syrian capital flight funneled to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. This presentation aims to analyze the outcome of such flight by unpacking the different components among Syrian businessmen diaspora and scrutinizing the ways in which their positions within the displaced Syrian community affect their political and economic behaviors in the host countries.Conference Object Food Banks and Food Insecurity: Cases of Brazil and Turkey (conferenceobject)(2017) Görmüş, EvrimThis presentation focuses on food banking as an example of targeted social provisioning and provides contrasting observations from food bank programs in Brazil and Turkey. The presentation introduces some different approaches and practices of food banks, and argues that food banks could be part of the progressive social policies that address the root causes of hunger among developing countries within neoliberal economic restructuring.Article Turkey and Nato in Retrospect: Hard To Classify as a 'win-win Relationship Part Ii - Turkey’s Solo Response To Pkk Terrorism: 'o Nato Allies, Where Art Thou?”,(BİLGESAM, 2018) Kibaroğlu, MustafaIn Part I, which was published in the previous issue of The Strategist, how Turkey’s membership in the NATO has created major obstructions in its fight against terrorism since the late 1970s was discussed by and large. Now, in Part II, how Turkish governments have found their own solutions, in one way or another, without tangible support coming from their allies will be the discussed in detail. ?