Starting in 2013, Turkish-American relations have been undergoing one of the deepest and
most alarming crises since the 1940s. Ankara, a NATO member and US ally for more than …

Recent works on 'uneven and combined development'(UCD) have focused on its
contributions to the study of political economy and geopolitics, but they have yet to …

This project aims to explain the crisis Turkish-American relations experienced after 2013
through the lenses of the hierarchical approach, which is relatively new in International …

The idea that the West is getting divided into two separate entities offers an interesting and
analytically valuable perspective to examine the crisis of the liberal West. In this chapter, the …

This chapter by utilizing liminality as a conceptual framework argues that Turkey's journey
toward Asia and particularly toward China is a recent example of the reproduction of its in …

This chapter analyses the 'crossroads' narrative tradition in the study of Turkey. Metaphors of
liminality in the study of international politics are characterised by conditionality, often …

While the discourse of great power politics is an intellectual commonplace of International
Relations theory, its roots in nineteenth-century conceptions of imperialism have rarely been …

This dissertation historicizes the expansion of Western European supermarket chains into
Eastern Europe after the end of communism and prior to the eastward enlargement (s) of the …

There is a Socratic problem in international politics that refers to the impossibility of
constructing an authentic image of states. Instead, states are narrated and imagined in …

In this chapter, the 'strongmen'narrative tradition in the study of Turkey is examined as a
narrative practice of representing a state leader as the embodiment of state. There are four …