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ABSTRACT This article examines the populist influences on middle power roles, focusing on two charismatic populist leaders, Presidents López Obrador in Mexico and Erdoğan in Turkey during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Conventional middle power theories emphasize material, behavioral and identity factors as shaping middle power roles, highlighting the ...
R. Melis Baydag +1 more
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The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–1980
Abstract Turkey's Community Development Program (CDP), implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, has remained a largely underexplored subject in the global history of rural community development schemes. Based on detailed archival research, this article shows that the programme's central goal was to mobilize the labour and financial resources of the ...
Burak Gürel, Kadir Selamet
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Judicial transformation in a competitive authoritarian regime: Evidence from the Turkish case
Abstract What accounts for the variation in the judiciary's ability to serve as a democratic guardrail under populist rule? This article contends that populist governments use judicial activism against their political agenda to portray courts as institutions that curtail popular sovereignty and subsequently adopt a democratizing discourse to conceal ...
Berk Esen
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Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy
Abstract In the twenty‐first century, blackouts have settled into a familiar sequence of events in the fully electrified world. After jolting publics into a sudden awareness of energy assemblages, they gradually disappear from public memory. This article is an exercise in dwelling on blackouts that have already begun to recede from public memory so as ...
Canay Özden‐Schilling
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Abstract The prevalence of neoliberalism has produced varied effects on cities ranging from rapid growth to gradual disempowerment. Instead of considering neoliberal urbanization as a fixed, predetermined process, I discuss the possibility of leapfrogging in urban repositioning.
Cansu Civelek
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Abstract Silence in the context of work has different meanings across different settings. Turbulence induced by the privatisation of previously state‐owned enterprises presents a curious setting to explore worker silence. Turning to worker silence in the process of mass privatisation of sugar factories in Turkey, we examine why workers remained silent ...
Cihat Erbil, Mustafa Özbilgin
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Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river
Abstract “Friendship dams” are an explicit, yet underexplored, materialization of hydropolitics that illustrate the potential role of water in international cooperation. Via a case study analysis of the Syria‐Turkey Friendship Dam project proposed for the Asi/Orontes river, we trace the process of cooperation that led to the use of this notion of ...
Hannah Haemmerli +2 more
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Adalet Partisi Dönemi Türkiye-Afganistan İlişkileri (1965-1971)
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The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey
Abstract Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This paper responds to this ever‐significant question by scrutinizing people's belief in conspiracy theories in Turkey. Building on Max Weber's theory of rationalization, it proposes that value‐laden and instrumentally rational predispositions, namely religiosity and partisanship, predict people's ...
Türkay Salim Nefes, Ozan Aksoy
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