Issue 3

Issue Number
3
Volume Number
ISSN
1010-9935
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Introduction: Financialisation, crisis, social protests and development alternatives in Southeast Europe
Becker, Joachim; Türel, Oktar; Türkeş, Mustafa (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
Southeast Europe is the region of the continent that has been most severely hit by the present crisis. GDP has plummeted in many countries, unemployment and poverty have sharply risen. Orthodox structural adjustment progra...
Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia: Development models, crises, social protests and the question of alternatives
Becker, Joachim (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The article analyses the space for development alternatives in three successor states of Yugoslavia – Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. Potential space of development alternatives have been opened by the present crisis. The ...
Financial crisis in Southern Europe in comparison with Eastern Europe
Aygül, Cenk (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
This paper examines the recent financial crisis in Southern Europe in comparison with Eastern Europe. The findings of the paper are as follows: (i) Firstly, the economic space of the EU can no longer be taken as homogeneou...
The Economic Crisis of 2008: Reproduction of the Core-Periphery Relations between the European Core and the Balkans
Rüma, İnan (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The 1990s were marked with the transition process that aimed to transform the central command economies to liberal free market economies and the single party regimes to multiparty democracies. The result has been mostly ...
Crisis in Slovenia: Roots, effects, prospects
Kržan, Marko (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The author examines the last 20 years of Slovenian economic history. He argues that export-led economic model based on depreciated domestic currency and capital controls enabled stabilization and convergence with develop...
The political framework of industrial meltdown in Croatia, 1990-2013
Mihaljević, Domagoj (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
In this paper, the writer offers an analysis of a political framework of deindustrialization and seeks to explain the political factors that have shaped and determined the fate of industrial sector in Croatia over the la...
Serbia's protracted transition under state-led and neoliberal models of capitalist development (1988-2008)
Musić, Goran (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The transition to capitalism in Serbia proved to be a particularly stretched-out process extending over two decades. This paper argues that the Serbian socio-economic development since the late 1980s cannot be viewed thr...
Turkey vis-à-vis the periphery of the EU: An economic assessment
Türel, Oktar (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The aim of this paper is to review the Turkish economic experience in comparison to those countries at the periphery of the EU in the last three decades. Starting with the assessment of economic performance in major coun...
Globalisation and trade unions in Turkey: Two class strategies in countering neo-liberal restructuring
Uzgören, Elif (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
The paper reviews alternatives to globalization and neoliberal restructuring within the context of economic crisis and rising politics of dissent. What are the challenges posed by globalisation to labour movements? What ki...
East European Countries and Turkey vis-àvis the EU: A comparative analysis of commercial relations
Akoğlu Şişman, Melda (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2014-12)
As all East European Countries are, in one way or another, linked to the economy, institutions, and policies of the European Union, especially with respect to its present aim of neoliberal structuring of the European con...
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