The political economy of Turkey / Zülküf Aydin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aydın, Zülküf, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Foreign economic relations.

Turkey.

Turkey--Economic conditions--1960-.

Turkey--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

x, 298 p.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy. Social unrest, political and ethnic violence, paralysis of the state bureaucracy and other institutions, increasing foreign debt, decreasing economic growth, vast inflation and increasing unemployment have all been part of everyday life in Turkey's recent history. Zulkuf Aydin argues that this state of affairs is symptomatic of a deeper, more enduring crisis arising from the way in which Turkey has been integrated into the global economy. Looking at democracy, repression, the military, the Kurdish question and regional inequalities, civil society, human rights and Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, he shows how Turkey has become reliant on foreign investment and international financial institutions, offering a broader critique of globalisation in this light.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Interpretations of globalisation

Globalisation, homogenisation and global inequalities

Periodic crises and capitalism

Globalisation and TNCs

Globalisation, internationalisation of capital and the nation state

The 1980s and debt peonage

Speculative capital movements

Flow of equity investment to emerging markets

The USA's role in the current financial crises

Globalisation again

1 The state

State intervention in Turkey

Economic policies in the 1950s

The planned period 1960-80

Development since 1980

How successful were the SAPs in the 1980s?

Liberalisation of foreign trade

Repressive anti- trade union policies

2 Democracy, development and good governance

Good governance, democracy and development

Democracy and development

The predominance of the state

The Turkish State

Democracy in Turkey

Liberalisation and democratisation since 1980

3 Cyclical crises since 1980

Rapid loss of economic autonomy

Financial liberalisation and the 1994 crisis

Disinflation programmes and the 2000-01 crisis

Repercussions of the 2001 crisis

The transition to a stronger Turkish economy programme of 2001

Conclusion

4 Agrarian crisis

Internationalisation of Third World agriculture

The end of developmentalism

General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs ( GATT) and the World Trade Organisation ( WTO)

The promotion of small- scale household production and the modernisation of Turkish agriculture

Economic hardships and neo- liberalism

Standby agreements since 1999 and Turkish agriculture

The sagas of sugar and tobacco

Sugar

Tobacco

Direct income support

Liberalisation and food security

History repeats itself: Mexico and Turkey

5 Political Islam in Turkey.

Political Islam as a reaction to modernisation

Kemalism, Islam and identity politics

Turkish identity and Islam

The moderation of political Islam

Political Islam, class politics and business interests

The National Outlook Movement ( NOM)

The rise and fall of the Welfare Party

Globalisation and the rise of political Islam in Turkey

6 The Kurdish question

Ethnicity and identity

The emergence of conflicting Turkish and Kurdish ethnies

Treaties of SËvres and Lausanne

The emergence of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey

Kurdish nationalist discourse in Turkey

Uncompromising nationalism

Conclusion: the European Union and the Kurdish question

7 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783719464

178371946X

9781849641289

1849641285

OCLC:

71347150