Esra Sipahi

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Necmettin Erbakan University

In today’s international relations system, energy -especially oil and natural gas- is one of the most discussed issues. The countries that have these two important energy sources can be targeted by imperialist global energy actors and remain defenseless against them. One of the prominent regions in the world in terms of oil and natural gas reserves...

Cinsiyet eşitsizliğinin belirgin bir şekilde hissedildiği günümüzde kadınlara yönelik ayrımcılık özel ve kamusal yaşamın her alanına sirayet etmiş durumdadır. Ataerkil toplum yapısına sahip ülkelerde kamusal alanda yer alabilen kadınların oranları incelendiğinde özellikle siyasette eril bir görünüm göze çarpmaktadır. Buna karşın ataerkil toplum öze...

The symbolic features of medieval political thought and political structure are feudal order and the strong Catholic Church. International relations in Europe during the medieval period were shaped by the factors such as city, state, religion and politics. Certainly, behind the economic, political and political aspects of the Medieval period, there...

The process of migration which takes root from poverty appears inevitably as a result of the pushing factors of rural areas and the pulling factors of the urban areas especially due to the opportunities of employment. However, this process does not remove the vital problems of the migrants, but it makes directions and the functions of the problem d...

The concept of “women friendly city” is generally described as in the context of the idea of making the cities livable for women, by making them participate to the local decision mechanisms and also give them the benefit of the local services equally. The concept of “women friendly city” in Turkey is known as the name of a United Nations’ Project c...

In the history of humanity, poverty has been a problem in every period and for every society. In today‟s world, poverty is the primary global problem which both a humanitarian and a social issue beyond its economic dimension. Poverty is also a globalizing environmental problem, especially for the developing countries. Besides its triggering effect...

From past until today, women have been exposed to many different types of poverty, deprivation, desperation and violence. The most dramatic one from all those destructive effects are the domestic violence and abuse of women. The domestic violence is a fact, which is mostly ignored and overpassed in many societies. When the lower chances of economic...

The concept of trust is one of the important signs of living together and a reflection of one’s feelings about social others. Although social, administrative and political consequences of the concept has been a subject of research, there is an increase in the attention paid to the concept after Putnam’s inclusion of trust as one of the component of...

Poverty is one of the most significant problems of the world. Global transformations of the world since 1980’s, has extended the influences of poverty with the acceleration of urbanization, particularly in the underdeveloped and developing cvountries. Poverty has reproduced different dimensions and appearances. In this context, this study determine...

Humankind has seen the nature as an unlimited source and has misused and polluted it, and also has caused environmental problems. The balance in the relationship between nature and humankind is turned into the disadvantage of nature. So the ability to protect and renew itself has declined and also the nature has become to an irretrievable condition...

Although the important names of the social capital theory think differently from several aspects, actually they emphasize the sane thing -importance of the social relations. In this study we will start out with the same emphasize, i.e. the postulate that the relations or associations, or contacts and networks bear a capital value from the aspect of...

The most significant reflections of globalization and neo-liberal policiescan be seen in urban area. In the process, on the one hand, the city has become a scene of different spatial organization and lifestyles. On the other hand, it has appeared as a space of ımprecedented inequalities. Gated communities have been described as one of the new urban...

Suç korkusu, toplumun her kesiminde, her yaş grubunda görülebilen, ancak çoğunlukla çocuklar, yaşlılar ve kadınlar gibi dezavantajlı toplumsal kesimlerde gözlemlenen bir durumdur. Suç korkusu yazını, konunun disiplinlerarası olma özelliği, ele alınış biçimlerinde ve araştırma yöntemlerinde çeşitlilik göstermesi ile göstergeleri ve sonuçları bağlamı...

Çalışmada, tarihsel süreçte Bakü’nün sahip olduğu temel işlevler ve geçirdiği dönüşüm ele alınmakta; bir yönetim merkezi olarak kentin “başkentlik” serüveni Sovyet öncesi ve sonrası dönem olarak incelenmektedir. Yine, başkentlik sıfatı, tasarlanmış ya da politik bir kararla erişmiş olmaktan öte doğasında bulunan tarihsel ve ekonomik özelliklerine b...

The results of different studies on trust on judiciary show increasing distrust of the citizens’ and the very low level of trust in Turkey. It is stated that the lack of trust stems from many reasons. In this context, the subject of this study is to identify the level of trust in judiciary in Turkey. The study examines the trust in judiciary from t...

z: Kadın Dostu Kentler Projesi, kadını kentte görünür kılmayı, toplum içindeki dezavantajlı konumundan çıkarmayı hedefine koyan bir projedir. Bu projenin bir üyesi olan Gaziantep, kadın dostu olma iddiası ile öne çıkan, aynı zamanda Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı kadın olan bir kenttir. Bu çalışma, Gaziantep'in kadın dostu kent olma hedefine ulaşıp ul...

Stockholm Conference was the first official comprehensive assembly that environmental problems came up the states' agenda. Although 30 years passed since Stockholm Conference, lots of academic research have done, international agreements, sanctions and thesis on sustainable development and gren Technologies, the environmental problems like environm...