Browsing by Author "Gönenç, Defne"

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Editorial to the special issue on ”Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean”
(Routledge, 2023) Defne Gönenç; Emre Iseri; Qingan Huang; Huang, Qingan; İşeri, Emre; Gönenç, Defne
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Citation - Scopus: 4
Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022) Defne Gonenc; Gönenç, Defne
Litigation is being increasingly used by environmental movements in pursuit of justice as a last resort. The environmentally harmful actions of transnational corporations in addition to the incapability of international organizations and the unresponsiveness of states to inhibit this damage are pushing citizens to courts. However courts' ability to address environmental injustices remains dubious. This article problematizes the efficacy of litigation for environmental movements to achieve long-term justice by examining Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe movements from Turkey through a case-study approach and borrowing from grounded theory. It discusses the reasons why litigation may provide short-term gains for environmental movements but is of limited effectiveness for pursuing change in the long-term such as non-implementation of court decisions policy changes impacting the execution of judgements insufficient sentences not offering enough deterrence for future and power imbalances between litigants impacting the courtroom etc.
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Political economy of Turkey's pivot to Asia
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2024) Defne Gonenc; Vasileios Fouskas; Qingan Huang; Sinan Unlusoy; Ünlüsoy, Sinan; Fouskas, Vasileios; Huang, Qingan; Gönenç, Defne
This article examines T & uuml,rkiye's increasingly complex relations with Asia from a political economy perspective capitalizing on the notions of semi-periphery and sub-imperialism in an era marked by the crisis of globalization and a relative decline of US economic and technological power. It contends that the complexity of T & uuml,rkiye-Asia relations and associated changes in Turkish foreign policy should be examined within the shifting global and domestic political-economic conditions and the changing relations between countries.
Citation - WoS: 5
Citation - Scopus: 4
The politics of neoliberal transformation on the periphery: a critical comparison of Greece and Turkey
(Routledge, 2020) Defne Gönenç; Günseli Durmaz; Gönenç, Defne; Durmaz, Günseli
Financialization and neoliberal globalization have increased the dependency of peripheral countries on core economies. This paper tracks the neoliberalization processes of Greece and Turkey two neighbouring countries on the periphery of Europe. By using a comparative political economy method and borrowing from the variegated capitalism literature it critically investigates how these two Mediterranean countries were affected by the 2008 global financial crisis their variant responses and the impacts of those responses within their historical specificities. The development trajectories of these two countries were similar until the 1980s but diverged thereafter. Before the 2008 financial crisis erupted both Greece and Turkey had neoliberal trajectories, the process they experienced through the crisis (how they were impacted by the crisis as well as how they responded) varied, yet capitalist restructuring deepened in both countries after the crisis. This was achieved through rising authoritarian populism in Turkey and the pressure of international institutions (both the International Monetary Fund [IMF] and the European Union [EU]) in Greece. Given that Greece is a member of the EU and Turkey is a longstanding candidate the variances between Greece and Turkey’s neoliberalization processes and the differing impacts the 2008 global financial crisis had on them make studying the contrasts between these countries important and timely. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Turkey’s Political Parties’ Asia Policies: Visions Contacts Issues
(Routledge, 2024) Ecem Evrensel; Defne Gönenç; Sinan Ünlüsoy; Evrensel, Ecem; Ünlüsoy, Sinan; Gönenç, Defne
Traditionally Turkey has been an ally of the transatlantic bloc. As a NATO member with a majority Muslim population and a free market economy it was even hailed by Western powers as a model country in the 2000s. However due to its acquisition of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia its desire to be a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its military presence in Syria and Libya many analysts have argued that Turkey’s foreign policy has experienced a pivot to Asia recently. This article systematically examines the current positions of various political parties in Turkey in this context using first-hand data. Through semi-structured interviews with 14 political party representatives and by analysing their party programmes the vision of different political parties in respect of Asia their relations with Asian actors their stance on Asian foreign direct investments and its environmental impacts the Uyghur issue and their thoughts on the period that will follow the Ukraine-Russia war are studied. © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.