Rahman Dag

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Marmara University

This study shows a review time gender gap. In a sample of 44,371 published articles in 255 Turkish national journals, we document that female authors experience significantly longer peer review. We argue and find that review time follows a pecking order of authorship based on the joint efficiency of female versus male authorship and solo work versu...

After the Russia-Ukraine war, energy politics has become a subject of security studies due to the European states’ energy dependency on Russian natural gas. With the Russia-Ukraine war, Eastern Mediterranean gas has become more critical for the energy security of the European Union (EU). However, the ongoing disputes and impossibilities regarding t...

This study aims to fill this gap by examining the Filyos Valley Project in terms of a governance approach. Based on semi-structured elite interviews, it concludes that the Filyos Valley Project was superficially conducted in line with the governance perspective but did not include a meaningful governance approach. The reasons are the decisive posit...

The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces are the forces tasked in order to end conflicts or impede potential conflicts from emerging. Forces’ main aims are among with variety to their relationship with the conflict, fundamentally can be regarded as ending the conflict and protecting the civilians. Troops deployed to conflict zones may change unsteadi...

Great power politics is a practical reality of world politics and it happens on a daily basis, regardless of which international system we witness. This book seeks to emphasize the ways s these great power politics emerge within greater Eurasia. Most researchers consider China becoming powerful enough to counterbalance the US, and possible power dy...

Appointed provincial governors do not have any power to make new policies apart from the ones made by the central government, but they are legally responsible for their implementations. In addition, they are not appointed for a specific time period and can be rotated even within a year or can stay longer where they are assigned. However, governors...

Türkiye ve Rusya kendi aralarında etki-alanlarının kesiştiği birçok coğrafyada mücadele etmeye devam ederken, mevut küresel güç sisteminde duydukları rahatsızlık birbirleri için doğrudan bir çatışmaya girmektense diğer büyük güçlere karşı hareket alanlarını genişletmek amacıyla siyasi ve askeri diyaloğa devam etmektedirler. Her iki ülke tarihi etki...

As a new but uncertain international system has been operating for decades that can be regarded as a transition from unipolarity to something resembling multipolarity. Therefore, established and possible future great powers have been determining their foreign policies according to their future projections of the regional conflicts. This paper inves...

International politics have always been connected with and among states constituting the international systems. Thanks to a tremendous number of factors, interactions among states and their speeds are dazzling. Therefore, any efforts to fully understand what is happening in world politics are destined to fall short due to new dimensions added befor...

Tüfekçi and Dağ provide a timely guide to a world in flux. They have curated a unique and eclectic collection that brings together some of the most eminent and influential thinkers on world politics. It offers an innovative take on these politics through a combination of traditional chapters and a series of interviews, which, together, provide a mu...

The world has increasingly become more complex, more globalized, and more vulnerable in the twenty-first century. In this new global order, one should comprehend and explore political, economic, social, environmental, institutional, and cultural processes and changes globally. On the one hand, the international community has witnessed the gloomiest...

We are witnessing turbulent times which inspire both anxiety and hope. Many global trends are sweeping across a transforming world. To make these movements and changes more understandable, Trends and Transformations in World Politics introduces the reader to the study of world politics in a period of rapid readjustment. This book also focuses on wo...

This interview is titled as Evolution of World Politics because there is a protracted discussion about the current world system which is believed in crisis. Most suggest that pax-Americana and its features are in decline and what is going to replace it and how is it going to be replaced are fundamental questions dying for answers. In this regard, w...

The main aim of the paper is to discover if a long term of a ruling political party provides economic development or decreases democratic quality of a country since more than two terms rule of a political party is considered as a tendency from democracy to authoritarianism. This paper analytically compares the long and short term governments in ter...

Demokratik sistemlerde, demokratik ilke ve esaslar açısından sivil toplumun varlığı ve işlevi büyük önem arz etmektedir. Aynı minvalde, demokratik ilkelere uygun bir toplumun inşası için de sivil toplum kritik bir rol oynamaktadır. Sivil toplumun daha güncel bir parçası olan sosyal hareketler de her alandaki karar alma süreçlerine etkide bulunmakta...

The entire 19th century was the most controversial years of the Ottoman Empire. It was the time period that the Ottoman Empire, as once one of the great powers in the world, had to struggle with the great western powers. This struggle ended with the disintegration of the Empire and several nation-states were conceived of in the Middle East immediat...

Energy resources since the industrial revolution have been paramount for both developing and developed countries. Therefore, the urgent need for and control over energy resources in order to have an advantage against rivalries have become a significant part of national security. From the late 18 th century to early 20 th century, coal and gasoline...

Interviewed for Political Reflection Magazine

Rise of leftist and rightist populist movements and political parties, the reluctance of international cooperation over climate change, perceived refugee threats in the Western world and the most recently Corona Virus have changed states’ understanding of international order. Nations are now taking precautions for external security issues, and thes...

Os recursos energéticos, desde a revolução industrial, têm sido primordiais tanto para os países em desenvolvimento como para os países desenvolvidos. Assim, a necessidade urgente e o controlo dos recursos energéticos, de forma a ter uma vantagem contra as rivalidades, tornaram-se uma parte significativa da segurança nacional. Do final do século XV...

Siyasal davranış, sadece oy kullanma ile sınırlandırılmayıp siyasi karar verme mekanizmalarını etkileyecek tüm davranış ve tutumları da kapsar hale gelmiştir. Özellikle sivil toplumun siyaseten etkili olması siyaseti etkime yollarını genişletmiştir. Aynı zamanda çeşitlenen siyasal davranışları etkileyen faktörler ayrı bir çalışma konusu haline gelm...

What the factors affecting someone’s political behaviour, how and to what extend they affect are subjected to the academic studies. Factors such as media, environment, education, occupation, political system, religion and family are affecting political behaviour of constituents but their demographic features are also influential on their reactions...

From the Ottoman Empire to present, there has been an interaction between political powers and religious groups in almost every period in the direction of mutual interests. In some periods religious groups affected the political authority, but in some periods political powers affected the religious groups in their own interests. Due to the fact tha...

This volume studies the contemporary dynamics of conflict and cooperation within Eurasia with reference to interdependencies, partnerships and contestations on regional security, energy, democratic transition, and trade. Its key concern, in a broader sense, is, therefore, to understand the various outcomes of post-Soviet regional transformation and...

Current politics in Turkey proves that the roots of the Kurdish question have to be taken under strict examination in order to diagnose the problem so that a permanent solution might be found. With this in mind, this paper tries to explain the emergence of the pro-Kurdish nationalist movement, the PKK, via social movement theories. What makes this...

The Kurdish question has been one of the most protracted issues in the political history of Turkey. Given such a long securitization of the Kurdish question, it almost came to an end due to the peace process initiated by the AK Party government and the imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan in 2013. Apparently it was not a solid process beca...

After a series of serious but uncompleted initiatives to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey, the AK Party government launched another peace process. What makes the last one crucial is that it is the first time majoritarian public support is obtained in this endeavour, and also the first time a legal framework has been put into operation for the s...

Civil-military relationship is generally examined through the use of an institutional approach or theories (concordance) that emphasise the salience of power struggles and social cohesion. These contributions are important but often exclude the role of contesting ideologies. To address this gap, this paper takes an ideological approach to address c...

PYD’nin, lokal egemenliğini tek taraflı inşası ye-rine, bölge ülkeleriyle iletişimde olup, genel muhale-fetin bir parçası olarak davranarak ve böylece güven sorununu aşarak, federatif bir Suriye yolunun doğal yollarla açılması için çaba sarf etmesi, uzun vadede kazanımlarını korumasının tek yolu olarak görün-mektedir.

z Dış yardımlar günümüzde dış politikanın ayrılmaz bir parçası olarak değerlendiril-mektedir. Bu durum dış politika analizlerinin "yumuşak güç" (soft power) ve "sert güç" (hard power) kavramları üzerinden yapılmasına sebep olmuştur. Dolayısıyla, bir ülkenin dış yardım miktarı o ülkenin uluslararası politikadaki etkinliğini göstermesi açısından önem...

The academic debate on the state and administrative structures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been reinitiated after a long silence on authoritarianism. The Arab revolts of 2011 stimulated alternative thoughts for the state and societal structure in this region, immediately after the overthrow of the authoritarian dictators. Yet, ma...

Jimar 2 Sal 1 2014 47 PUXTE: Dewleta Osmanî ji ber ku di seranserî sedsala 19an de hin reformên leşkeri, aborî, îdarî û civakî xistiye meriyetê, mirov dikare vê sedsalê wek sedsala reforman bi nav bike. Ji sala 1514an heta sedsala 19an hevsengiyek di navbera têkiliyên dewleta Osmanî û eşîrên kurdan de hebû. Eşîrên kurdan û dewleta Osmanî li ser rêv...

According to an Iraqi-Kurdish website, the KCK recently made a symbolic and dramatic decision to lift a ban on militants marrying one another. If this announcement proves to be accurate, then it should be regarded as one of the fundamental steps which could contribute to the ongoing peace process in Turkey. The seemingly insignificant news might go...

The Middle Eastern Muslim counties including Turkey have internalized military regimes as legitimate and needed ruling system. With this understanding, they have tried all available political ideologies to find solutions their problems. From my point of view, the core reason why these states could find solution to their problems is because they sea...