Necati Polat

E-mail

polatn@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of International Relations

Scopus Author ID

16414644000

Boundary Issues in Central Asia Polat, Necati (Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2022-05-01) What was the legal framework within which the new states of Central Asia attained statehood?How did the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union evolve, almost over night, into inter-state frontiers, and on what...
Peace in Non-Western Theory Polat, Necati (Oxford University Press, London , 2021-01-01) This chapter looks critically into the exhortations in recent peace thinking to accommodate visions of peace outside European modernity, called the West. The discussion problematizes the premise of a radical distinction ...
Regime Change in Contemporary Turkey: Politics, Rights, Mimesis Polat, Necati (Edinburgh University Press , 2016-08-01) Turkey has undergone a series of upheavals in its political regime from the mid-19th century. This book details the most recent change, locating it in its broader historical setting. Beginning with the Justice and Developm...
RESISTANCE TO REGIME CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST A Liberation Theology of the Neo-con Variety? Polat, Necati (Informa UK Limited, 2014-01-01) Understanding authoritarian regimes in the Middle East as pure cynicism, or as leftovers of past and native despotisms, with scarce attention paid to the modern complicity in the sustaining of these regimes, arguably lacks...
Regime change in Turkey Polat, Necati (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013-05-01) A series of critical developments in Turkish politics from 2007 has signalled a historic shift in the use of power in the country, long controlled by the staunch and virtually autonomous bureaucracy, both military and civi...
Orientalists, Islamists and the global public sphere: a genealogy of the modern essentialist image of Islam Polat, Necati (2012-05-01)
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis Polat, Necati (Routledge, London/New York , 2012-01-01) nternational Relations, Meaning and Mimesisis an innovative assessment of the uses of theory in making sense of international politics, opening up new pathways to thinking about the basics of the study area. Insights drawn...
European integration as colonial discourse Polat, Necati (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011-07-01) A not infrequent musing on the growing European integration is that the process may signal a historic discontinuity with the logic and functioning of the modern state, forming an alternative to the Westphalian order. This ...
The Anti-Coup Trials in Turkey: What Exactly is Going On? Polat, Necati (Informa UK Limited, 2011-01-01)
Peace as War Polat, Necati (SAGE Publications, 2010-10-01) This article seeks to reimagine peace against the backdrop of a Foucauldian understanding of politics. Most conventional accounts are based. on a sharp distinction between war and peace and alternate between two broad posi...

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