Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect:Turkish foreign policy discourse

This book offers a discursive analysis of the Turkish Foreign Policy on Humanitarian Interventions (HI) and the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Across the chapters the author addresses important questions, such as: what is the position of the HI and R2P in the Turkish foreign policy discourse? Is there any variation between cases when it comes to the use of these concepts? How do these discourses shape/change/transform or sustain the Turkish identity? Despite the tendency in some countries to incorporate HI and R2P principles into their foreign policy (UK, Netherlands, Canada, Japan), and the fact that some countries are lobbying to make these principles a part of international or UN law, in the developing world these policies and concepts have not gained widespread recognition or approval. Countries like China, Brazil and India approach these concepts with suspicion or with reservation. The same tendency can be observed in the MENA region and in some parts of Africa and Asia. In this book, the author looks at the reasons behind these differences in approach and explores how the concept of identity affects Turkish foreign policy specifically. This study is invaluable for researchers and students of R2P and HI and foreign policy discourse in general

Turkey and UNPKO in Africa:Reluctant multilateralism

This chapter argues that Turkey’s reluctant contribution to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) is a result of Turkey’s identity constructions of itself and of Others. The chapter overall aims at explaining identity formations by analyzing the discourses and debates especially in the Turkish parliament regarding UNPKO in Africa. Discourse analysis here is inspired by the Essex School and Laclau and Mouffe (Erdogan 2017)

Turkey and UNPKO in Africa:Reluctant multilateralism

This chapter argues that Turkey’s reluctant contribution to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) is a result of Turkey’s identity constructions of itself and of Others. The chapter overall aims at explaining identity formations by analyzing the discourses and debates especially in the Turkish parliament regarding UNPKO in Africa. Discourse analysis here is inspired by the Essex School and Laclau and Mouffe (Erdogan 2017)

Investigating Turkey's Changing Narratives Regarding Interventions in Libya and Syria

This article investigates the role of intersubjective and situated meanings and norm contestation for militarised humanitarian interventions from a critical perspective. The International Relations (ir) literature on humanitarian interventions, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, and emergence of norms is explained and critically evaluated. The case analysed here is Turkey and its foreign policy discourse regarding interventions in Libya and Syria. Based on the case and literature review, the author concludes that critical approaches particularly provide useful tools to understand the role of identity, changing foreign policy narratives, and power constellations in world politics

Multi-Objective Decision-Making In Supplier Selection: An Application Of Visual Interactive Goal Programming

Supplier selection by purchasing teams in a supply chain management environment is inherently a multi-objective problem. The authors discuss one of the multiple criteria decision support systems; Visual Interactive Goal Programming (VIG), to assist purchasing teams in their vendor selection decisions. VIG is based on a multi-criteria technique known as Pareto Race. Two examples illustrate the application of VIG in different multi-objective supplier selection environments. The first example demonstrates the allocation of a single product among multiple vendors, while the second example focuses on a multiple-replenishment purchasing problem in selecting supplier and allocating orders among them. The authors conclude with a discussion of VIGs benefits and limitations

INTERPRETATION OF CONNECTIVITY METRICS AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS: THE CASE OF CANDARLI BAY-IZMIR, TURKEY

WOS: 000426337900065Landscape metrics play an important role in the quantification of landscape structure and associated processes. But the outputs of landscape structural analysis are affected by the spatial resolution of source data. Whilst the influence of spatial resolution on landscape metrics has received considerable critical attention [e.g. 1, 2], recent studies suggest an association between connectivity metrics and the scale of the source data [3]. In this study, we analysed the structure and distribution of natural and semi-natural vegetation patches in candarli Bay- Izmir using a land cover map with 6 broad land cover types (Forests, Shrub and Herbaceous Vegetation Associations, Agricultural Areas, Artificial Surfaces, Wetlands and Water Bodies) and 9 landscape metrics (FRAGSTATS) across different spatial resolutions (2m, 5m, 10m, 25m, 50m and 100m). Then, we investigated the influence of those landscape metrics on the identification and prioritisation of land cover types in terms of their contribution to physical connectivity. Our results suggested that the results of individual landscape metrics are affected by spatial resolution, but when they interpreted and evaluated altogether, the prioritised land cover types did not change