Ünver, Hamid Akın

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Ünver, Hamid Akın
H.,Ünver
H. A. Ünver
Hamid Akın, Ünver
Unver, Hamid Akin
H.,Unver
H. A. Unver
Hamid Akin, Unver
Unver, H. Akin
Ünver,A.
Akin Ünver,H.
Ünver,A.
Akin Ünver,H.
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International Relations
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SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
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DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
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PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
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WoS Citations per Publication

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Middle East Policy2
All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace1
Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi1
International Journal of Middle East Studies1
Middle East Quarterly1
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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Ir Theoretical Approach To the Paris Climate Agreement: Neo-Neo Debate Eco-Marxism and Green Capitalism
    (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    Continued inability of the international climate negotiations to reach a common resolution has been subject to academic and scientific research focus. These studies have focused on the ways of fostering cooperation and preventing free-riding in climate negotiations through the development of balancing methods. This article first attempts to explore why climate negotiations since 1997 Kyoto Protocol have failed and how such failures could be overcome in 2015 Paris UN Climate Conference through a neorealist and neoliberal institutionalist context. Especially neorealist concepts such as systemic anarchy self-helf and relative gains along with the neoliberal institutionalist response to them through complex interdependence and abolute gains have been instrumental to crafting a theoretical answer to the success of most recent climate negotiations. The article then adds two new systemic-theoretical approach to the debate namely Eco-Marxism and Green Capitalism and aims to contextualize these approaches within international relations theoretical literature.
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    Article
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Turkey, Past and Future: the Forgotten Secular Turkish Model
    (2013) Akin Ünver,H.
    [No abstract available]
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    Master Thesis
    Do Climate-Related Natural Disasters Affect the Conflict Dynamics Through Affecting the Horizontal Inequalities?: the Cases of Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Rodi Mutlu, Mirkan; Ünver, Hamid Akın
    There is a complex relationship between natural disasters and conflict. While the literature mainly investigates this relationship through the impact of climate related-natural disasters on conflict via its effect on state capacity, economic-agricultural output, grievances and greed, there is less attention to the climate-related natural disasters' impact on conflict through affecting the horizontal inequalities. Since that the climate related-natural disasters can highly worsen the economic and social conditions in vulnerable deprived regions and less worsen the conditions in advantaged regions, climate-related natural disasters can worsen the horizontal inequalities in the country. Horizontal inequalities can increase the risk of conflict. Therefore, it is important to analyze this relationship. In this thesis, I investigate the impact of the climate-related natural disasters on conflict dynamics through affecting the horizontal inequalities. By focusing on the cases of Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria, I think that the climate-related natural disasters increase the risk of conflict in Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria by worsening the horizontal inequalities in these countries. On contrary to my expectation, my results show that while the climate related-disasters increased the risk of conflict in Nigeria through worsening the horizontal inequalities, they did not increase the risk of conflict in Malawi and Mozambique via horizontal inequalities. Specifically, for Mozambique, the results indicated that climate related-natural disasters did not increase the risk of conflict via horizontal inequalities since that both the advantaged and deprived regions were affected in similar levels. For Malawi, my results suggest that the despite that the climate related-natural disasters worsened the horizontal inequalities, there were no increased risk of conflict. The reason is that affected deprived people did not feel injustice or inequality. Also, the low-level horizontal inequalities affected the the peace situation in Malawi. As an important note, my findings are mainly weak and should not be understand as strong/important results. I mainly observe the relationship among the disasters-conflict-horizontal inequalities.
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    Master Thesis
    Conscription & Coup D'état, a correlation analysis
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Verwijs, Rebecca Marıa Gesıne; Ünver, Hamid Akın
    The objective of this thesis is to analyse the relation between conscription and coup d'état. The intention of the thesis is to fill a gap in the literature regarding both conscription and coup d'état since no quantitative research on the combination of both topics has been performed yet. Although several countries are currently using conscription with the justification that conscription is supposed to protect the country from coup d'état. These expressions are thus completely speculative since there is no research to back up this claim that conscription in fact protects an country from coup d'état. The relationship between conscription and coup d'état has been analysed through the mean of several variables: democracy; freedom index, polity IV index, and regime type, economy; GDP per capita and the GINI, military management; military expenditures per capita and military personnel per capita, religion; Islam, Christianity and others, fractionalisation; religious and linguistic and lastly through the variable of colonisation. These variables have been chosen in order the reflect the extent and complexity involved with coup d'état as well as with conscription. The research has made use of quantitative research methods using a zero-inflated Poisson regression. The results of the zero-inflated Poisson regression show that there is in fact a relation between conscription and coup d'état. The analyses showed an inverted nonlinear relation between GDP per capita, conscription and coup d'état, where the increase of GDP per capita, and years of conscription exercised in a country showed an increase of coup d'état up to a certain point, after which the relations seizes to exist. Other relations with coup d'état could be found with the variables of democracy, economy, military personnel, religion and linguistic fractionalisation. There, however, does not show to be a relation between military expenditures, religious fractionalisation or colonialism and coup d'état.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    The Fog of Leadership: How Turkish and Russian Presidents Manage Information Constraints and Uncertainty in Crisis Decision-Making
    (Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    Leaders choose to mislead their domestic peers when the political risk and cost associated with a particular foreign policy decision is too great and when the structure of the political system in question is too leader-centric to afford these costs being incurred by the leader. This article argues that risk uncertainty and imperfect information are not necessarily external unwanted or unforeseen factors in foreign policy decisions. In certain cases they too are instrumentalized and adopted consciously into decision-making systems in order to diffuse the political costs of high-risk choices with expected low utility by insulating the leader from audience costs. This dynamic can be best observed in leader-centric and strong personality cult systems where the leader's consent or at least tacit approval is required for all policies to be realized. This article uses two important case studies that effectively illustrate the use of deliberate uncertainty in decision-making in leader-centric systems: post-2014 Russia (War in Donbass and the annexation of Crimea) and Turkey (ending of the Kurdish peace process and the change in policy towards Syria).
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    Ideology Political Agenda and Conflict: a Comparison of American European and Turkish Legislatures' Discourses on Kurdish Question
    (Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    Combining discourse analysis with quantitative methods this article compares how the legislatures of Turkey the US and the EU discursively constructed Turkey's Kurdish question. An examination of the legislative-political discourse through 1990 to 1999 suggests that a country suffering from a domestic secessionist conflict perceives and verbalizes the problem differently than outside observers and external stakeholders do. Host countries of conflicts perceive their problems through a more security-oriented lens and those who observe these conflicts at a distance focus more on the humanitarian aspects. As regards Turkey this study tests politicians' perceptions of conflicts and the influence of these perceptions on their pre-existing political agendas for the Kurdish question and offers a new model for studying political discourse on intra-state conflicts. The article suggests that a political agenda emerges as the prevalent dynamic in conservative politicians' approaches to the Kurdish question whereas ideology plays a greater role for liberal/pro-emancipation politicians. Data shows that politically conservative politicians have greater variance in their definitions based on material factors such as financial electoral or alliance-building constraints whereas liberal and/or left-wing politicians choose ideologically confined discursive frameworks such as human rights and democracy.
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    Citation - Scopus: 9
    Contested Geographies: How Isis and Ypg Rule "no-Go" Areas in Northern Syria
    (Springer International Publishing, 2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    [Abstract Not Available]
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    Citation - WoS: 6
    Citation - Scopus: 5
    How Turkey's Islamists Fell Out of Love With Iran
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    [Abstract Not Available]
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    Militancy Governance Under State Failure: Models of Legitimacy Contestation in Ungoverned Spaces
    (2017) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    This article makes an empirical exposition of militancy governance under state failure by focusing on ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), YPG (People's Protection Units), Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic. Specifically, the article discusses how these groups mobilize different types of grievances and frame their propaganda to exert control over areas where states are weakened. Furthermore, how these groups engage in early modes of pre- and post-territorial control, form governance practices and prioritize particular areas for better administration are also elaborated in detail. Ultimately, the paper argues that Violent Non-State Actors (VNSAs) perform better in areas of low loyalty and high resource-generation and if its territorial ambitions are maximalist (expansionist). Through these variables, we are better able to judge how sustainable these groups will be in their respective territories and how should states approach local governance once these groups are defeated.
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    Turkey Past and Future: the Forgotten Secular Turkish Model
    (2013) Ünver, Hamid Akın
    [Abstract Not Available]