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Shifting Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Trans-European Space
No full textThis chapter reconstructs Turkey’s foreign policy interactions with the key actors in the Trans-European space, during the Justice and Development Party’s (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, hereafter AKP) era, evaluating how they have developed over time and how they have been mutually influencing. Turkish foreign policy has shifted from a Europe-centred outlook, generally characterized by the long haul of European Union (EU) membership, towards a more assertive foreign policy approach, fuelled with attaining an ambitious regional role, which was particularly displayed with the unfolding of the Syrian crisis. After presenting the origins and the main features of a pro-active and multi-dimensional Turkish foreign policy, this chapter analyses how different factors in Turkey-EU relations have led to a long pause in the membership process and contributed to re-orient Turkish foreign policy towards its regional spaces. In the last section, we present selected cases of the recent Turkish structural foreign policy activism in its regional spaces, mainly from Central Asia, Middle East and Africa, and the Balkans
Evaluating Effectiveness in EU Democracy Promotion: The Case of Turkey
No full textThe aim of this article is to contribute to the current debate on European Union (EU) democracy promotion (DP) in general and in Turkey in particular. Starting from the existing hypotheses in the literature, we analyze the potential effectiveness of EU DP in Turkey in the period which followed the so called «enlargement fatigue» (post-2005) until the last developments in bilateral relations following the migration crisis and the attempted coup. We show how a combination of structural factors and policy decisions, on the EU side, gradually leading to a transformation of Turkey from a country subjected to EU DP to a de facto strategic partner, constrained the Union’s potential effectiveness as a democracy promoter in Turkey
L'irrisolta questione curda in Turchia
No full textQuesto breve contributo ricostruisce le origini e gli sviluppi principali della questione curda in Turchia, mettendo in evidenza le ripercussioni a livello interno per quanto riguarda il processo di democratizzazione e la condizionalità posta dall'Unione europea per il rispetto dei diritti delle minoranze, e a livello regionale dal punto di vista della politica estera verso la Siria e l'Iraq
EU-Turkey Relations: Facilitating or Constraining Democratization?
No full textIn trying to bridge between external Europeanization literature and studies on the international dimension of democratization, we use the concepts of leverage and linkage to analyse how EU-Turkey relations, in combination with domestic-related factors, favoured or constrained democratization. Whereas in the first part, we reconstruct economic and political linkages to show what EU-related factors affect EU’s leverage on Turkey, in the second part we identify the combination with domestic factors, which facilitated democratization until 2007 and constrained it since then. We argue that, as the EU has no more leverage on Turkey’s ruling elite, only extensive linkages at the level of civil society, business groups and opposition elite, could contribute to favour Turkish democratization process over the long-term
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Introduction
No full textThis edited volume aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debates on Turkey by analyzing the challenges it faces at both internal and external level, and by reflecting on the implications of Turkey’s multiple roles in the period following the Justice and Development Party’s coming to power in 2002. To this end, the book focuses on two main thematic research areas: 1) Turkey’s thorny accession process to the European Union (EU) since 1999 and the induced process of political transformation; and 2) the increasing importance of Turkey’s cooperation with Europe to tackle common security challenges
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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