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1. Economic Relations between Turkey and Germany.

Author

İNAT, KEMAL

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL economic relations, *INVESTMENTS, *INTERNATIONAL relations, *ECONOMIC development
Abstract

This paper examines the economic relations between Turkey and Germany, Turkey's number one trade partner for over a century. It first ascertains that the relations between the two countries are based on mutual interests rather than "historical friendship" or "brotherhood of arms." Second of all, this paper explains, with data, how trade and mutual investments between Turkey and Germany have been developed. Third of all, this paper determines that the level of economic relations between Turkey and Germany is lower than it should be, considering their foreign policy orientations based on economic interest. Lastly, this paper underlines potential areas of contribution to the development of expanded economic relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016

2. Systemic Changes and State Identity: Turkish and German Responses.

Author

Demırtş-Coşkun, Bırgül

Subjects
*NATIONAL character, *COLD War, 1945-1991, *INTERNATIONAL relations, *CULTURE, *SOCIETIES
Abstract

This article seeks to analyze identity discourses in Turkey and Germany in the wake of the end of the bipolar world order. The radical changes taking place in the international system in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to extensive internal debates on state identity in both countries. It is puzzling that despite heavy discussion in Ankara and Berlin, in the end, both retained the former identities they had constructed during the Cold War. Systemic changes resulted in alternative state identity narratives in both countries, without leading to any major change in the direction of foreign policy. One of the main arguments of this paper is that the main reasons behind the preservation of former identities in Turkey and Germany were the political, strategic and economic benefits that both countries had acquired during the Cold War. Another important argument is that Turkish and German state identities based on the "Western" orientation were well-established and resistant, at least, to the alternative models which were being discussed in the post-Cold War era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008

3. International Organization and Democratic Peace: France-Germany and Greeche-Turkey in NATO and EU.

Author

Dembinski, Matthias and Hasenclever, Andreas

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL relations, FRENCH foreign relations, GERMAN foreign relations, ECONOMIC conditions in Turkey
Abstract

The international organization of the Democratic Peace matters. Interdemocratic institutions are particularly suited to block escalation pathways between states and to prevent conflicts from resulting in war. The paper builds on findings from three fields of research: (a) the liberal analysis of the democratic peace, (b) systemic approaches to international institutions, and (c) new quantitative studies of armed conflicts. The paper identifies three pivotal contributions of international institutions to peaceful conflict management. International institutions can be used to overcome the security dilemma among states and to tame power competitions. They sustain international cooperation and forestall the recourse of governments to unilateral self-help strategies. Finally, international institutions increase the autonomy of issue areas, which decreases the risks of destabilizing spill-over effects from other issue areas. The paper holds that these three functions are extra-ordinarily well performed by interdemocratic institutions. Therefore, interdemocratic institutions are considered a missing link in the explanation of the democratic peace.To strengthen our argument, we choose five state dyads for structured-focused comparisons. We investigate the security relations of Argentine and Brazil, Argentine and Chile, Germany and France, Greece and Turkey, and Indonesia and Malaysia. Each of these dyads is integrated in a comparatively dense institutional network and in each case the United States has a hegemonic interest in preserving peace. In a first step, we look for significant differences in the form of international institutions. Do democracies tend to organize their security relations differently than other states? And do the form of international institutions change in predictable ways when their member states democratize? In a second step, we compare the robustness of international institutions in times of crisis. Here we ask whether interdemocratic institutions more effective in transcending the security dilemma and in stabilizing cooperation among member states? ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

4. Two Europes vis-a-vis Enlargement.

Author

Gidişsoğlu, Sercan

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL relations
Abstract

We can make reference to two different main projections of future for the EU: (a) the position defended by France and Germany, which presupposes that there should be ‘not a geographically very big but politically and economically strong social European ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009