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 …
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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…
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…
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…
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…
The main aim of this study is to find out whether or not, and to what extent the European Neighbourhood Policy contributes to European security in the light of effects of changing international structure on European scale. To that end, a neo-realist approach is applied in the st…
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…
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…
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…