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This volume revisits Karl Polanyi's analysis of the institutional
separation of politics and the economy in the context of the
nineteenth century market society to argue that the market economy
is not a spontaneous process, but a "political project" realized
through institutional changes whereby labor, land, money, and
currently knowledge appear as commodities. The contributions
explore the political dynamics of this commodification process, its
implications for human life and livelihood, and the possibilities
for the advent of a more viable order where the economy would be
replaced under social control. With its interdisciplinary reach,
the book is of interest to academics and graduate students in
different fields such as economic sociology, political economy and
social policy.
'This theoretically informing book provides one of the strongest
analyses of Turkish political economy. Bu ra and Sava kan
decisively dispel myths regarding the new, allegedly self-made and
'small' entrepreneurs who form the backbone of Turkish success.
Drawing on original documents, interviews, and statistics, they
demonstrate that politics (as practiced by regimes, parties, and
associations) has 'made' the Turkish pious business class. No one
can think of markets and market actors in the same way after
reading this book.' - Cihan Ziya Tugal, UC Berkeley, US 'This
impressive work places Turkey firmly on the map of comparative
politics and political economy. It adds intriguing facets to what
we know about the relationship between the state, democracy and
capitalist development in an age of neoliberalism. It also sheds
new light on the role of religion in economic change and class
formation in emerging countries on the periphery of contemporary
capitalism. Moreover, in emphasizing the role of business
associations in the politically sponsored rise of a post-Fordist
model of globalized national capitalism, the book provides exciting
new insights on a subject that has been regrettably neglected in
recent years.' - Wolfgang Streeck, The New School for Social
Research, US 'Power has shifted in Turkey over the last decade,
both within business and the state, towards groups with
religious-conservative rather than Kemalist-secular sensibilities.
This book goes deep inside this transformation to analyze the role
of Muslim business networks and their relationship with the state.
You will not find a better guide to Turkey s emergent new
capitalism.' - Dani Rodrik, Institute for Advanced Study, US New
Capitalism in Turkey explores the changing relationship between
politics, religion and business through an analysis of the
contemporary Turkish business environment. This book focuses on the
developments that have transformed the economic, political and
cultural coordinates of business activity; led to new forms of
interest representation; and changed the relationship between
government and business in Turkey in the post-1980 period. Ay e Bu
ra and Osman Sava kan argue that political action plays a crucial
role in shaping the configuration of the business community,
influencing the patterns of business development, and informing the
emergence of rival models of capitalist development and political
change endorsed by different groups of entrepreneurs. Moreover, the
book explores the idea that whilst the use of religion as a
strategic resource by some business associations serves to create
bonds of trust and solidarity among their members, it also
contributes to the polarization of the business community. This
interdisciplinary book will be an invaluable resource for
academics, graduate students and researchers interested in
political economy, political science, sociology, economic history,
and organization studies. It will also appeal to journalists and
business people, especially those investing or planning to invest
in Turkey or the Middle East. Contents: Introduction 1. Economic
Development and Cultural Modernization in Republican Turkey: A
Brief Overview 2. The Changing Place of the Economy and Religion in
Turkish Society Since 1980 3. The New Political Economy of Capital
Accumulation 4. Business Associations as Political Actors 5.
Polarization at the Local Level Conclusion Index
The contributors to this text aim to promote the understanding of
the contemporary world economy by confronting the challenges that
have to be faced in elaborating new tools of analysis. The text
presents inquiries into the contemporary world economy, namely: the
economic success of East Asia; political and organizational
restructuring in Western, industrial countries; and the
post-communist transformation process in former centrally planned
economies.
This text presents a comparative historical overview of female
employment patterns across the Mediterranean region, analyzing how
the relationship between economic development, political change and
the cultural environment shapes the evolution of gender roles in
interconnected spheres of social life.
This book focuses on the dynamics of Turkey's relationship with
Europe in the context of the 'Arab Spring' and analyses Turkish
behaviour vis-a-vis foreign policy cooperation with the EU. Susler
explains the complexity of Turkey-EU relations by looking beyond
membership negotiations and examines informal foreign policy
dialogue between Turkish and EU officials. The book discusses the
reactions of the Turkish government to the uprisings in Libya,
Syria, and Egypt and cooperative opportunities between Turkey and
the EU. The analysis finds that although cooperation varies across
cases, foreign policy dialogue has become a main driver of the
Turkey-EU relationship. A counter-intuitive finding of the research
is that the EU has often been the actor seeking Turkey's
cooperation, rather than the other way round, clearly challenging
the original power asymmetry between Turkey and the EU. Based on
interviews with diplomats and policy makers and extensive
documentary research, this book will be of interest to political
scientists, students, policy makers and researchers focusing on
Turkish foreign policy and Turkey-EU relations. This book is also
about exploring inventive ways of maintaining a complex working
partnership with the EU and will be of interest to scholars working
on the EU's relationship with "outsiders".
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and
experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey's Kurdish
question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted
issue, which gained regional and international significance largely
in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the
largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have
demanded autonomy and recognition since the post-World I wave of
self-governance in the region, and their nationalist claims have
further intensified since the end of the Cold War. The present
volume first describes the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, its
genesis during the late nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire,
and its legacy into the new Turkish republic. Second, the volume
takes up the violent legacy of Kurdish nationalism and analyzes the
conflict through the actions of the PKK, the militant pro-Kurdish
organization which grew to be the most important actor in the
process. Third, the volume deals with the international dimensions
of the Kurdish question, as manifested in Turkey's evolving
relationships with Syria, Iraq, and Iran, the issue regarding the
status of the Kurdish minorities in these countries, and the debate
over the Kurdish problem in Western capitals.
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and
experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey's Kurdish
question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted
issue, which gained regional and international significance largely
in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the
largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have
demanded autonomy and recognition since the post-World I wave of
self-governance in the region, and their nationalist claims have
further intensified since the end of the Cold War. The present
volume first describes the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, its
genesis during the late nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire,
and its legacy into the new Turkish republic. Second, the volume
takes up the violent legacy of Kurdish nationalism and analyzes the
conflict through the actions of the PKK, the militant pro-Kurdish
organization which grew to be the most important actor in the
process. Third, the volume deals with the international dimensions
of the Kurdish question, as manifested in Turkey's evolving
relationships with Syria, Iraq, and Iran, the issue regarding the
status of the Kurdish minorities in these countries, and the debate
over the Kurdish problem in Western capitals.
Stream processing is a novel distributed computing paradigm that
supports the gathering, processing, and analysis of high-volume,
heterogeneous, continuous data streams, to extract insights and
actionable results in real time. This comprehensive, hands-on guide
combining the fundamental building blocks and emerging research in
stream processing is ideal for application designers, system
builders, analytic developers, as well as students and researchers
in the field. This book introduces the key components of the stream
computing paradigm, including the distributed system
infrastructure, the programming model, design patterns, and
streaming analytics. The explanation of the underlying theoretical
principles, illustrative examples and implementations using the IBM
InfoSphere Streams SPL language, and real-world case studies
provide students and practitioners with a comprehensive
understanding of such applications and the middleware that supports
them.
Delay in a marine adventure is an important and frequent phenomenon
of maritime transport as it affects various parties and their
interests. Insurance Law Implications of Delay in Maritime
Transport is the first single book to deal specifically with this
issue in the context of insurance law. The book addresses the
losses and expenses that may arise from delay or loss of time in
maritime transport, the types of insurance available covering or
excluding losses arising from it and the impact of delay on voyage
policies. The author, Aysegul Bugra, critically examines and
evaluates the scope of several different types of marine insurance
policies, including but not limited to: hull and machinery, cargo,
freight, loss of hire and marine delay in start-up insurance.
Furthermore, the book analyses the current law by tracing back the
relevant common law authorities to the 18th century and examines
the wordings used in practice from that time to today with a
comprehensive and critical approach. This unique text will be of
great interest to legal practitioners, shipping professionals and
academics alike.
This book focuses on the dynamics of Turkey's relationship with
Europe in the context of the 'Arab Spring' and analyses Turkish
behaviour vis-a-vis foreign policy cooperation with the EU. Susler
explains the complexity of Turkey-EU relations by looking beyond
membership negotiations and examines informal foreign policy
dialogue between Turkish and EU officials. The book discusses the
reactions of the Turkish government to the uprisings in Libya,
Syria, and Egypt and cooperative opportunities between Turkey and
the EU. The analysis finds that although cooperation varies across
cases, foreign policy dialogue has become a main driver of the
Turkey-EU relationship. A counter-intuitive finding of the research
is that the EU has often been the actor seeking Turkey's
cooperation, rather than the other way round, clearly challenging
the original power asymmetry between Turkey and the EU. Based on
interviews with diplomats and policy makers and extensive
documentary research, this book will be of interest to political
scientists, students, policy makers and researchers focusing on
Turkish foreign policy and Turkey-EU relations. This book is also
about exploring inventive ways of maintaining a complex working
partnership with the EU and will be of interest to scholars working
on the EU's relationship with "outsiders".
Delay in a marine adventure is an important and frequent phenomenon
of maritime transport as it affects various parties and their
interests. Insurance Law Implications of Delay in Maritime
Transport is the first single book to deal specifically with this
issue in the context of insurance law. The book addresses the
losses and expenses that may arise from delay or loss of time in
maritime transport, the types of insurance available covering or
excluding losses arising from it and the impact of delay on voyage
policies. The author, Aysegul Bugra, critically examines and
evaluates the scope of several different types of marine insurance
policies, including but not limited to: hull and machinery, cargo,
freight, loss of hire and marine delay in start-up insurance.
Furthermore, the book analyses the current law by tracing back the
relevant common law authorities to the 18th century and examines
the wordings used in practice from that time to today with a
comprehensive and critical approach. This unique text will be of
great interest to legal practitioners, shipping professionals and
academics alike.
Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the
economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a
spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through
institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently
knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of
this commodification process.
Security is one of the key concerns in the domain of Information
Technology systems. Maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and
availability of such systems, mandates a rigorous prior analysis of
the security risks that confront these systems. In order to
analyze, mitigate and recover from these risks a metrics based
methodology is essential in devising the response strategies to
these risks. In addition to that the enterprise objectives must be
focally integrated in the definition, impact calculation and
prioritization stages of this analysis to come up with results that
are useful both for the technical and managerial communities within
the organization. Within this book, an attack tree based
information security risk evaluation method named TEOREM (Tree
based Enterprise Objectives Risk Evaluation Method) will be
outlined. TEOREM aims to integrate the enterprise objectives with
the information asset vulnerability analysis within an
organization.
For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature
of Turkey’s partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations
have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a
brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false
nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two
countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and
policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment,
this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries
throughout history and how these relate to the current points of
tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new
conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the
“vulnerable partnership”. The book outlines the key causes of
this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have
been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated
across different political periods. These especially involve the US
congress, public opinion, Russia, and crises in the Middle East.
Based on journalistic, archival and scholarly sources, the topic of
the book is at the intersection foreign policy studies, Middle East
politics, the history of Turkish-American relations, and foreign
policy making.
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