The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed his son-in-law Berat Albayrak as the Treasury and Finance Minister shortly after he retained his office in the general elections in June 2018. On 10th August 2018, Albayrak held a press meeting with the heads of the prominent [...]
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The ‘antagonistic’ relationship between globalisation and the nation-state has always been at the heart of the debates in International Relations and International Political Economy (IR/IPE). Are nation-states unceasingly playing the major role in shaping international politics, or is [...]
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Most commentators on Turkey mark 2013 as a turning point in terms of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) transition from a liberal, democratic, and ‘yet’ pro-Islamic government to a more heavy-handed and authoritarian one. Even in 2010–12, the AKP was praised by some in the [...]
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“Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people” (p. 1). Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy’s excellently-edited volume The Handbook of Neoliberalism starts its mission with this nailing definition. Neoliberalism has become one of the concepts [...]
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The financial crisis of 2007-2008 severely damaged the fundamental structures of global economy. However, neoliberalism remained as the dominant mode of capitalist accumulation. States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of capitalist Order exclusively [...]
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The Making of Neoliberal Turkey edited by Cenk Özbay, Maral Erol, Ayşecan Terzioglu, and Z. Umut Türem, focuses on the various aspects of neoliberalisation in Turkey since the 1980s. The volume provides an empirically rich material for students and readers of Turkish politics, and also it [...]
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In November of 2016 the EU Parliament voted to suspend talks with Turkey on its bid for membership of the European Union, highlighting the deterioration of human rights and the whittling away of democratic norms under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. This development almost certainly [...]
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