Browsing by Author "Gunay, Defne"

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AVRUPA ÇIKARLARI VE AB’NİN MISIR’A YÖNELİK İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ POLİTİKASI
(2020) Gunay, Defne
Uluslararası İklim Değişikliği Paneline göre iklim değişikliği sonucunda Akdeniz bölgesindeki nehirler etkilenecek, çölleşme artacak, yükselen deniz seviyesi kıyı yerleşimlerini etkileyecek ve tarım mahsullerinde verim düşecektir. Bu nedenlerle iklim değişikliği Akdeniz bölgesi için önemli bir konudur. Avrupa Birliği, iklim değişikliği politikasında öncülük ederken 2050 yılı itibariyle karbondan arındırılmış ekonomi hedefini de tutturmayı hedeflemektedir. Avrupa Birliği aynı zamanda iklim diplomasisi aracılığıyla dünyada da iklim politikalarının benimsenmesini teşvik etmektedir. Avrupa Birliği’nin bu etkinlikleri, ekonomik çıkarlarıyla açıklanabilmektedir. Bu çalışmada AB’nin, Mısır’a yönelik iklim değişikliği politikası sayesinde ekonomik çıkar elde edip etmediği incelenmektedir. Belge analizi yapan çalışma, ABMısır iklim değişikliği ilişkileri sayesinde Avrupa şirketlerinin Kyoto Antlaşması tarafından oluşturulan piyasa temelli çözümlerden yararlandığını, Mısır’a yenilenebilir enerji teknolojileri ihraç ettiğini ve AB tarafından Mısır’da teşvik edilen AB düzenlemeleri sayesinde avantajlı bir konum elde ettiklerini ortaya koymaktadır.
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Emotions in climate change communication: An experimental investigation
(DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2022) Gizem Arikan; Gizem Melek; Defne Gunay; Arikan, Gizem; Melek, Gizem; Gunay, Defne
We conducted an experiment to test whether altering the saliency of information provided by experts in fictitious news stories on climate change triggered different emotions among readers. Based on appraisal theories of emotions in the psychology literature we hypothesized that 1) news stories that presented climate change related threats as diffuse and uncertain would elicit greater levels of anxiety while 2) stories that provided a specific target to blame would induce greater anger and 3) those that underlined the potential of technology and human efforts to solve climate change related issues would elicit greater levels of hope. We found that while all news stories concerning climate change elicited high levels of anxiety there were statistically significant differences between the emotions expressed by participations in the expected directions. We discuss the potential implications of these findings for climate change communication and for public opinion on climate change.
European Identity and the Myth of the Peace Project
(ANKARA UNIV EUROPEAN UNION RESEARCH CENTRE, 2019) Defne Gunay; Gunay, Defne
The extent to which European identity is accepted by the Europeans in comparison with national identities and what European identity means are topics that are analyzed in the European integration literature. This study uses Eurobarometer data to analyze how much the European identity is endorsed after the Eurozone crisis and how the European institutions aim to define Europeanness. Through critical discourse analysis of the State of the European Union speeches delivered by the President of the European Commission this study demonstrates that Europe as a peace project myth is central in their attempts to render European identity valuable in the eyes of the Europeans.
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How can a 'Responsible' European Union Contribute to the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect?
(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2019) Pinar Gozen Ercan; Defne Gunay; Ercan, Pinar Gozen; Gunay, Defne
In 2013 in light of the mass atrocity cases in Libya and Syria the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament recommended 'to reconfirm the EU's commitment to R2P [Responsibility to Protect] by adopting an interinstitutional Consensus on R2P'. Despite such reaffirmation the Union's role in implementing R2P remains an open-ended question. To date the EU's contribution to R2P has rarely been studied. In our attempt to contribute to the literature approaching the issue from an ethical perspective we aim to answer the following questions: what are the existing capacities of the EU in contributing to R2P, and what can the EU do to be a more responsible actor in the future? After identifying the existing capacities of the Union we analyse what the EU can do to make the international community more responsible in the future given that we have already left behind the first decade of the norm which was characterized by inconsistent implementation. Finally we conclude that the Union holds a genuine potential for further development and a consistent implementation of the norm mainly by utilizing its non-military tools.
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Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?
(Routledge, 2021) Defne Günay; Emre Iseri; Meti̇n Ersoy; Adeola Abdullateef Elega; Ersoy, Metin; Gunay, Defne; Iseri, Emre; Elega, Adeola Abdulateef
As the public draws most of its information on scientific issues from the media studies of media coverage of climate change have proliferated. Here we analyze whether newspapers in developing countries frame climate action as an adaptation or mitigation issue. Mitigation refers to activities to reduce or prevent carbon emissions whereas adaptation refers to activities to adjust economic and social systems to the effects of climate change. To this end we conduct a comparative quantitative analysis of climate change news framing in newspapers from two carbon locked-in developing countries: Nigeria and Turkey. Our first research question is whether newspapers in the two countries frame climate change as a mitigation or adaptation issue. Our second research question is whether there is a relationship between the use of foreign sources and the use of a mitigation frame. We find more adaptation framing in Nigerian newspapers whereas adaptation and mitigation frames are more evenly seen in Turkish newspapers. We also find that the use of foreign sources in news with a climate action frame is negatively correlated with the use of an adaptation frame in our sample. Our findings improve understanding of the factors shaping climate change communication in developing countries. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2021) Gizem Arikan; Defne Gunay; Arikan, Gizem; Gunay, Defne
Addressing climate change requires international effort from both governments and the public. Climate change concern is a crucial variable influencing public support for measures to address climate change. Combining country-level data with data from the Pew Research Center Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey we test whether perceived threats from climate change influence climate change concern. We distinguish between personal threat and planetary threat and we find that both threats have substantive effects on climate change concern with personal threat exerting a greater influence on climate change concern than planetary threat. The effects of both types of threats are also moderated by Gross Domestic Product per capita such that threats have stronger effects on climate change concern in high-income countries than in low-income countries. Our findings contribute to the existing literature and open up new debates concerning the role of threats in climate change concern and have implications for climate change communication.
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The public as an audience for the securitisation of climate change: facilitating conditions at the identification stage
(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2022) Defne Gunay; Gizem Arikan; Arikan, Gizem; Gunay, Defne
The literature on the emergence of climate change as a security problem notes the lack of studies of audiences that enable the successful construction of climate change as a security issue. While previous studies consider different types of audiences we focus on public opinion which provides moral support for securitising moves to investigate what individual and country level conditions facilitate individuals to identify climate change as a threat to humanity or a risk to themselves. We do so by analysing public attitudes towards climate security in 24 nations covered by the 2015 Pew Global Attitudes Survey. We differentiate between the logics of securitisation and riskification and different referent objects such as humanity and self. We then identify the patterns of threat and risk perception towards different referent objects in climate security. We find that individuals' personal insecurities translate into perceived personal risk from climate change while perceived threats to humanity from climate change are related to cognitive resources and sophistication.
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Unexpected Persistence Amidst Enlargement Stasis: Usages of Europe in Turkey's Nuclear Energy Debate
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2017) Defne Gunay; Emre Iseri; Gunay, Defne; Iseri, Emre
Recent studies on European Union (EU) Enlargement have emphasised the importance of usages of 'Europe' by domestic actors as a necessary condition for the EU to have an impact on domestic politics. We study the usages of Europe in the critical case of Turkey's nuclear energy policy. We analyse the narratives and actions of domestic actors in Turkey to identify if they use 'Europe' (the EU and the idea of Europe). We reach the counter-intuitive finding of usages by both state and non-state actors which illustrates that usages of Europe can persist despite enlargement stasis in candidate states.