The political economy of Turkey / / Zülküf Aydin

• Autore: Aydın Zülküf <1950->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: x, 298 p
• Disciplina: 337.56109045
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey Foreign economic relations; Turkey Economic conditions 1960-; Turkey Foreign relations
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political economy of Turkey
• ISBN: 1-78371-946-X; 1-84964-128-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829501303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II