Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism

This study aims to extend recent theoretical and empirical work that has begun to question the strong homogeneity argument in much of the macro‐institutional literature on nationally dominant forms of organizing. More specifically, the paper develops the proposition that intra‐national variety is likely to be greater…

• NEBAHAT NİSAN GÖKŞEN

Stanford School—World Society or World Polity approach—led by John W. Meyer has been largely overlooked despite its revolutionary insights (Robertson 2009). Nevertheless, renewed interest in neoinstitutionalisms and concepts as world society, culture, and legitimacy (Clark 2007) imply Stanford School's relevance for c…

• MAKBULE DİDEM BUHARİ

This paper is an attempt to provide a critical realist analysis of the concept of ‘strategic depth’ recently being used in analysing Turkish foreign policy. The article provides a criticism of the realist geopolitical thinking on which the concept of strategic depth is based using the insights of the critical realist…

• FARUK YALVAÇ

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• YUNUS KAYA

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate different strands of institutional theory within the internationalization process of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in developed and emerging economies. In the light of this purpose, the authors try to fill the gap in the literature through analysing the main institut…

• KADER ŞAHİN
• KÜBRA MERT MAHAN

Analysis of the Turkish state in the 20th century both draws upon and supports Gramsci's definition of the state as “dictatorship + hegemony. Both the form of the capitalist state and its activities rest upon the hegemony of the dominant class. The importance of society and class conflicts in understanding the capital…

Abstract Silence in the context of work has different meanings across different settings. Turbulence induced by the privatisation of previously state‐owned enterprises presents a curious setting to explore worker silence. Turning to worker silence in the process of mass privatisation of sugar factories in Turkey, we e…

• CİHAT ERBİL

Uluslararası sistemi derinden etkileyen kriz ve dönüşümler, teorik perspektiflerin yeni konjonktüre ait dinamikler karşısında kendilerini yenilemeleri için bir çağrı niteliği de taşımaktadır. Bu yönde atılabilecek ilk adımlardan biri, kuramların temel önermelerinin zihinsel evrim süreçleri dikkate alınarak gözden geçi…

Uluslararası sistemi derinden etkileyen kriz ve dönüşümler, teorik perspektiflerin yeni konjonktüre ait dinamikler karşısında kendilerini yenilemeleri için bir çağrı niteliği de taşımaktadır. Bu yönde atılabilecek ilk adımlardan biri, kuramların temel önermelerinin zihinsel evrim süreçleri dikkate alınarak gözden geçi…

• MEHMET AKİF OKUR

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Modes of dialectical reasoning were introduced into International Relations (IR) from the 1980s onwards in the context of the post-positivist debate as an alternative intellectual resource drawn from the philosophy of the social sciences. To the extent that the deployment of dialectics for IR drew upon Marx and the wi…

• CAN MÜSLİM CEMGİL

This article aims to refresh class analysis in order to develop a better understanding of different modalities of reproduction of labour quite often without economic and social security in different historically specific contexts. It draws attention to the pertinence of exploring the ways in which the individuals comp…

• AYLİN TOPAL