Turkey’s Challenges and Transformation

Harun Arikan is Professor of International Relations at Çukurova University, Turkey. He was a research fellow at Oxford University in the UK, and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Maine in the USA.  Zeynep Alemdar is Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Okan University, Turkey, where she currently acts as Dean of the Business and Administration Faculty and directs the Gender Studies Research Center.

• Introduction.- Transformation of Party and Election System in Turkey.- Transformation and challenges in Government System in Turkey: ‘The Turkish Type of Presidentializm”.- Transformation of Judiciary for a Turkey in Transition:  Dynamics and Consequences.- Turkey’s Political Economy in International Context.- Transformation of Secularism in Turkey.- Gender Equality in Turkey.- The Changing Dynamics of Protests under Turkey’s Authoritarian Transformation: Actors, Repertoires and Strategies of Repression.- (De)Securitization of the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: The Nexus between Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics in the Twenty-First Century.- The Transformation of Migration Governance in Turkey.- Transformation of Turkey’s Environmental Policy: A Case of Selective Europeanization?.- Transformation and Challenges in Turkey-EU Relations: A Case of Foreign Policy with Domestic Political Implications.- An Agent-Based Bounded Rationality Analysis Turkey’s Relations with Greece.- Turkey-US Relations: From the Catalyst of the Model Country Image to the Reference Point of Defensive Discourses.- Transformation and Challenges in Turkish Foreign Policy: Turkey Russia Relations.- Turkey and the Middle East: The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Power.- Cooperation Amid Transformation: Turkey and International Organizations.