Browsing by Author "Atac, C. Akca"

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A comparative civilizational reading for the Middle East and Turkey's new role in it
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
The 1990s witnessed a bloom of studies on the standard of civilization', which all aimed to explore the future of the rift between the East and the West. The Arab Spring and its implications for the primordial competition between the East and the West has once again required the revisiting of certain, rather more contemporary, theoretical aspects of the grand debate on civilization. This paper aims to introduce current arguments pertaining to the grand debate on civilization into the context of the Arab Spring. In doing so, it seeks to offer a comparative perspective of the quest for understanding the current situation in the Middle East with particular reference to the civilization discourse which is currently on the rise in Turkish politics. Turkey is among the actors in the Middle East seeking to assume leadership in order to establish peace in the region.
“Başkanlık için Wonder Woman!”: 2016 Amerikan Başkanlık Seçimleri, Hillary Clinton ve Feminist Gelecek
(2017) Atac, C. Akca; 17826; Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler
Bu çalışma, Amerikan siyasetindeki kadın başkan tartışmalarını, ilk ideal kadın başkan prototipi olaraksunulan çizgi roman kahramanı Wonder Woman’ın ortaya çıkış hikayesi ile feminizm tarihinin kesiştiğinoktalar ekseninde, özellikle ikinci dalga feminist hareket bağlamında ele almaktır. Bunu yaparkenWonder Woman’ın süper gücü olan hakikat ile feminist siyaset arasındaki ilişkiyi, ikinci dalgasürecinde patriyarkal siyasetin hakikatle verdiği en kötü sınavlardan biri olan Watergate Skandalı’nı dadahil ederek inceleyecektir. Wonder Woman’ın bir çizgi roman kahramanı olarak elde ettiği kurgusaladaylığa gerçek hayatta 2016 seçimlerinde ilk defa Hillary Clinton erişmiştir. Bu nedenle, önceliklehakikate karşı tutumuna referansla, Clinton’ın avukatlıktan başkanlık adaylığına uzanan kariyerifeminist siyaset bağlamında ele alınacak, başkanlık kampanyasının başarısız olma sebepleri feministgelecek için siyasal dersler çıkarmak amacıyla tartışılacaktır.
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Empire of Languages: Eu's Multilingualism Policy and the Turkish Language
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
Despite its crucial role in sustaining better integration, multilingualism is not discussed as widely as the other topics of multiculturalism within the context of the European Union (EU) enlargement. The accession process requires Turkey to take notice of the opportunities and shortcomings as well as the challenges of European multilingualism and to communicate the relevance of the Turkish language to the completeness of European multiculturalism. The present article aims to assess the EU language policy in light of the future imperative of incorporating Turkish into Europe's linguistic family by referring to the EU's laws, norms, and values as well as NGOs' reports and opinion papers.
Gerçeğin Peşindeki Kadınlar: Wonder Woman, Margaret Sanger ve Planned Parenthoodun Geleceği
(2015) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
Amerika Birleşik Devletlerinin Obamacare olarak da bilinen evrensel sağlık sigortası girişimleri, Cumhuriyetçi eğilimler gösteren sermaye sahiplerinin çalışanlarına sundukları sağlık sigortalarında kendi politik tutum ve dini inançlarını yansıtacak kısıtlamalara gitmesi gibi tepkisel uygulamaların ortaya çıkması ile eşzamanlı bir gelişme göstermiştir. Araştırmalar, neoliberal politikalar çerçevesinde sağlık sigortasının kapsamı ile ilgili kısıtlamaların en çok kadın çalışanları etkilediğine işaret etmektedir. Haziran 2014te Hobby Lobby şirketinin Amerikan Yüksek Mahkemesinde görülen temyiz davasının sonunda çıkansermaye sahibinin dini inançları doğrultusunda kadın çalışanlarına sunduğu sağlık sigortası paketinden doğum kontrolünü çıkarabilmesi yönündeki karar, bu olgunun en güncel göstergelerinden biri olmuştur. Bu çalışma, ünlü kadın hakları savunucusu Margaret Sangerin kurucuları arasında bulunduğu tarihi Planned Parenthood hareketinin Amerikan Yüksek Mahkemesinin Hobby Lobby kararının emsal oluşturmasını engellemek için başlattığı eylem planını ve bu kararın kadın çalışanlar için nasıl sonuçlar doğurabileceğini incelemektedir. Bunu yaparken Harvard Üniversitesinden Jill Leporeun ünlü çizgi roman kahramanı Wonder Womana Margaret Sangerin ilham kaynağı olduğunu öne süren araştırmasına referansla, Amerikan kadın hareketinin Wonder Womanın ilk defa basıldığı 1940lardan bugüne yasa yapımını ne ölçüde etkilenmiş olduğu tartışmalarına da değinecektir. Ayrıca, yine Leporeun kitabına referansla, kadınların hakikatın peşinde koşma güdüsü ile doğum kontrolü özelinde kadın hakları hareketinin tesadüfi mitolojik, tarihsel ve yasal kesişme noktalarına değinilecektir.
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Pax Ottomanica No More! The "Peace" Discourse in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post-Davutoglu Era and the Prolonged Syrian Crisis
(Wiley, 2019) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
Turkey's eight years between 2008 and 2016 has been dominated by Ahmet Davutoglu's vision of foreign policy, which was derived from his multi-edition book Strategic Depth (2000). In order to be able to present itself in its larger periphery as a pro-active, trustworthy actor, Davutoglu argued, Turkey needed to change the foreign-policy paradigms with which it was stranded. As the Strategic Depth vision unfolded, it drew explicit parallels between modern Turkey and the Ottoman neighborhood policy. Turkey-Syria relations since 2008 had been providing the seekers of neo-Ottomanist tendencies in the contemporary Turkish foreign policy with abundant examples, because Syria, once an Ottoman territory and always a challenge to modern Turkey, came to be the first poster country in the shift towards Turkey's imperial awakening. In the post-Davutoglu era, however, the rhetoric and practices of the past eight years seemed suddenly to disappear from the use of the Turkish agents of foreign policy; the new code of terms and actions to replace the Strategic Depth version is yet to be decided. This study seeks to pin down the neo-imperialist character of Turkey's foreign-policy discourse of the aforementioned eight years and contribute to discussions of the Turkish aspiration of neo-Ottomanism with focus on the Syrian crisis through the Justice and Development Party's re-invented peace discourse. In doing so, it aims to find out and elaborate on the current tendencies of Turkish foreign policy, which are no longer as explicit and articulated as they were during Davutoglu's ministry and prime ministry. As Turkey's cross-border operation to Syria - the Euphrates Shield - ends and another one in Idlib begins, a discursive analysis stretching from Davutoglu's diplomatic "zero problems" with Damascus to the military use of ground troops and air force is timely. Such an endeavor would be essential in understanding the spectacular swing from one edge to the other in Turkey's inclination over a phantasmagorical empire.
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Roman Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain Beyond Gibbon: Ancient Norms of Empire For Moderns
(Brill, 2013) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
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THE SEA THAT BINDS US: THE EU'S PROBLEMATIC NORMATIVE CAPACITY AND THE UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
(I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014) Atac, C. Akca; 17826; Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler
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Truth, Truth-Telling and Gender in Politics: the "hillary" Experience
(European Assoc Amer Studies, 2019) Atac, C. Akca; Atac, C. Akca
Among the highest goals to be achieved by political feminism, a female US president has held an elusive but prominent place. Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, which coincided with Wonder Woman's new post as the United Nations ambassador, has been the closest moment for this goal to be achieved. Clinton's inattention to truth-telling, the email interrogation pursued by the FBI against her and her failure to win the election, however, have in part resulted in the passing of that moment. This study, on this account, probes Hillary Clinton's candidacy for president in terms of women's historical relation with truth-telling and feminist standpoint. It argues that if Clinton had been more committed to the truth-telling principles and practices, her presidential campaign would have been a substantial contribution to historical and political feminism.
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Turkey's New Vision for "man's Best Hope for Peace": United Nations Reform and Reorganization of the Security Council
(Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2014) Atac, C. Akca; Atac, C. Akca
Despite its present reputation as weak, inefficient, and discreditable, the United Nations is one of humanity's most noble endeavors. Although the structure of the Security Council prevents its decision-making procedures from being more democratic, the UN still seeks to suppress aggression, respect self-determination, and promote human rights and well-being. Furthermore, political cosmopolitans' proposals for comprehensive UN reform, which goes far beyond increasing the number of permanent members of the Security Council, give us hope for substantial improvement. Nevertheless, the UN is still the sum of the states it is comprised of and UN reform depends on the broader and ambitious project of state reform as both concept and practice. Within this context, this paper argues that focusing exclusively on the Security Council and the geographical distribution of permanent membership only harms the comprehensiveness of the analyses seeking to reform the UN from a larger perspective. The fact that the success of a UN reform is closely related with the enhancement of member states' ethical capacities should also be taken into consideration. The next round of debates for a proper solution to the UN impasse takes place in 2015, and Turkey is emerging as an enthusiastic voice for further reform and for its own potential permanent membership in the Security Council. However, Turkey has also developed a significantly anti-UN discourse unprecedented in its foreign policy, which now runs the risk of curtailing the country's capacity to partake in substantial change in UN decision-making procedures. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu currently acts as a statesman, insisting on a statist reform (which focuses more on states' individual interests) of the Security Council. Interestingly, in the 1990s, when Davutoglu was a university professor, his views of the UN tended to be more cosmopolitan and suggested a civilization-based solution. This paper, while elaborating on the discussions of reforming the UN from a cosmopolitan perspective, also probes Davutoglu's conflicting approaches to the issue. It thus seeks to argue that Turkey, instead of pushing for a purely statist model, should consider supporting pluralistic, multi-level, and more-complex participation in the UN's decision-making procedures.
Turkey's new vision for "man's best hope for peace": United nations reform and reorganization of the security council
(2014) Atac, C. Akca; 17826
The UN can never be anything but a mirror of the world as it is. It merely assembles together the multiplicity of individual national states with all their imperfections. If the states are bellicose, the UN will be full of bellicosity. If the world is a world of cold war, the UN will be a system of cold war (as in its first fifteen years) If the world is beset with nationalism, so too must the UN be. If there are conflicts and disagreements among continents, races or ideologies, these will manifest in the UN as well. It is no use blaming the UN, therefore, for deficiencies, which are those of the world it reflects. The UN is as good or as bad as the states, which compose it.1that each nation develop its peculiar genius to the fullest extent, and in order to be able to do this, let each nation become a member of a World-State under the guidance of a Central Court of Justice. Dante, De Monarchia2