This study holds for the formation of international financial crisis and political factors for economic crisis in Turkey, are evaluated in chronological order. The international arena and relevant studies conducted in Turkey work in the literature are assessed. The main purpose of the study is to hold the linkage between the crises and political stability in Turkey in details, and to examine th...

Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s A Kingdom in Crisis has been eagerly and long awaited by many Thailand watchers. Having resigned from a senior Reuters post in 2011 to publish a series of articles on Thailand’s political crisis based on leaked US diplomatic documents, “AMM” has become a vociferous critic of Thai elites and especially the monarchy, developing a wide following on social media. A Kingd...

This article examines the implications of the Euro crisis for theories of political economy associated with ‘varieties of capitalism’ considering how those theories help explain the origins of the crisis and how developments during it mandate revisions in such theories. Efforts to understand the crisis have extended these theories in four directions. They have inspired an emerging literature on...

Protracted conflict and violence in Burma have been conducive to the growth of the opium industry, Burma's single financial success in recent years of economic crisis and authoritarian rule. This in turn has fed violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis. This paper argues that the underlying political economy of the conflict has been overlooked, while conflict itself has been treated as a per...

The disintegration of the state socialist regimes in Eastern Europe cannot be seen as an isolated phenomenon, for it is only the final and most dramatic manifestation of a process which has been unfolding over the past two decades throughout the world. The popular rejection of centralist bureaucratic and authoritarian regimes has been a common feature of political developments in both East and ...

In this paper we critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy emphasizing the questions opened by the recent …nancial crisis. We begin with a discussion of the issue of rules versus discretion. We then examine the independence of Central banks both in normal times and in crisis and in relation to the political cycles. Finally we address international institutiona...

Political theory from its very onset has determined that democracy is inconceivable without a crisis. This applies to the ancient writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybios to the modern era with writings of Tocqueville, Marx and Max Weber or since the 1970s the leftists Jürgen Habermas (1973) and Claus Offe (1972), the conservative Crozier, Huntington, Watanuki (1975), the leftist NeoSchmittian Ch...

shari'atnameh writing as a prescription in political jurisprudence has been of particular importance in islamic political thought. this paper tries to focus on thought of fadhlollah ibn ruzbahan khonji, the last shari'atnameh writer in middle ages in the era consolidation of power of shiite government, shah ismail i, safavid king and the decline of the caliphate. the paper tries to an...

I The political development approach of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) II Deficiency of classic evaluation for political cooperation demands the development of new instruments III Political imperative for socio-political approaches on crisis prevention and conflict management IV Answering to deficiency and political imperative: Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCAI) V The pilot phase: ...