The problems of regional integration in the West African subregion : a case of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Idehen, Sunday Rustum
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis
The determinants of international competitiveness: the case of Turkish manufacturing sector
Gençay, Mehmet; Erdil, Erkan; Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies (2003)
The aim of this thesis is to identify and to study the micro and macro determinants of export performance. The results of micro determinants suggest that there is no significant relationship between export performance and R&D intensity, which could be a result of underreport of R&D expenditures in income statements of firms and the realization of its effects in the long-term. The results for marketing intensity, ratio of foreign exchange profits in total sales, fixed investment intensity and capital intensi...
The Challenges of Internationalization from Foreign and Local Students' Perspectives: The Case of Management School
Kondakçı, Yaşar; Yildirim, ALİ (2008-12-01)
The Purpose of this qualitative case study is to discern the issues pertaining to different dimensions of internationalization from the perspectives of both foreign and local students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 foreign, and 13 local students. The results show that there is a dissonance between policy makers and implementers, and the students themselves on "what a truly international higher education organization" in fact is. Moreover, the results suggest that asymmetrical aims of loc...
The Impacts of financial sanctions on policy space: the cases of Iran and Russia
Cundu Kaya, Gözde; Cömert, Hasan; Department of Economics (2017)
As a foreign policy instrument, economic sanctions intend to change the current policies of the target and to persuade the target to implement policies in accordance with the form that is imputed appropriate by sanctioning parties. To that end, they aim to narrow or to destroy the policy space of the target by using commercial and financial channels. With the globalizing world order, sanctions have evolved and have begun to be implemented using more financial channels. This thesis aims to reveal the impacts...
The Role of cultural heritage in international politics: an analysis of the negative heritage sites in UNESCO world heritage
Tomaz, Gamze Zehra; Çıtak Aytürk, Zana Ayşe; Department of International Relations (2020)
This thesis analyses the role of cultural heritage in international politics by focusing on UNESCO and its management of negative heritage sites. The thesis first examines the historical development of the cultural heritage management system. Then, UNESCO and its management system are introduced by looking into World Heritage List and components of the system. Lastly, negative heritage sites in UNESCO World Heritage List are evaluated. By focusing on conflictual nature of the cultural heritage, it is propos...
The Prospects of Europeanization in the field of civil protection: the cases of Italy and Croatia
Talay, Özlem Sıla; Göksel, Asuman; Department of European Studies (2019)
Civil protection is one of the areas where the European Union (EU) coordinates the efforts of the Member States to minimize the effects of emergencies and disasters. In line with the subsidiarity principle, EU level civil protection mainly depends on the national capacities of the Member States. Therefore, civil protection is an area where the EU regulations do not have a binding power and the Union is mainly supporting the Member States in their civil protection efforts. The main aim of this study is to un...
S. R. Idehen, "The problems of regional integration in the West African subregion : a case of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)," Middle East Technical University, 1987.