As Kingsley Davis stated, ‘the study of population offers one of the unique and indispensable approaches to an understanding of world affairs’ (Davis 1954, p.vii). In the discipline of International Relations, valuable security and political implications have been yielded by exa…
1980’li yıllardan itibaren faizsiz finans veya İslami finans olarak adlandırılan finansman yöntemlerinde çok hızlı bir gelişme gözlenmiştir. Bu gelişmenin önde gelen faktörlerinden biri de hiç şüphesiz faizsiz veya İslami bono olarak da adlandırılan sukuktur. Bu çalışmada modern…
Climate change came to the international security agenda in 2007: the United Nations Security Council held its first debate on the topic, and the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) discussed for the first time the linkages betw…
Between 2015 and 2016, Germany was the site of some of the most significant migration events in the 21st century, receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees from across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Syrians made up a significant proportion of these refugees. Curiously, they…
This paper presents the results of a critical discourse analysis of a selection of Canada's security texts and argues that the country's security discourses construct Muslims as dangerous and different from the normative Canadian. The research relies on a social constructionist …
The purpose of this research is to contribute to the studies of cultural racism in contemporary Europe by observing the effects of securitization of immigration and assumed confusion between terms `radical' and `radicalization' on the rise of this phenomenon. Within the framewor…
Systematic mass rape during conflict has for centuries met with global ignorance and political complacency despite its atrocious character. The conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s altered the silence surrounding this long tolerated, dark underbelly of war. Applying Barry…
It has commonly been argued that drugs have been securitized, however relatively little in-depth analysis has been carried out on this subject. This thesis addresses this gap in the literature by using a combination of Foucault’s concept of the dispositif and a sociological inte…
The main goal of this study is to provide an explanation of the concept of securitization as a hegemonic compliance-producing mechanism for preserving the status quo as per the 1959 Agreement in the Nile Basin. Though the systematic power-analytical approach and hegemonic and co…