China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historically situate contemporary US-China rivalry to conceptualise the Second Cold War (SCW). We argue that…

• MUSTAFA KEMAL BAYIRBAĞ

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I.IntroductionFor a long time it has been assumed that capitalist agriculture requires the existence of fully established property rights on land and predominance of the use of wage labor in agricultural production. According to this assumption, transition from customary or communal landownership systems to private la…

OBJECTIVE: Previous reports suggest that maternal exposure to acute stress related to earthquakes affects the sex ratio at birth. Our aim was to examine the change in sex ratio at birth after Eastern Marmara earthquake disasters. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was performed using the official birth statistics from J…

• ŞULE YILDIRIM KÖPÜK

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• BARIŞ ALP ÖZDEN

This paper argues that the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India after 1950 was a product of the different capabilities of the Chinese and Indian governments to mobilize the labor force and financial resources of the rural population. By mobilizing unpaid labor and the financial resources of…

• BURAK GÜREL

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• TOLGA DEMİRYOL

Although the existing scholarship on the capitalist transformation of Chinese agriculture uses the concepts of the Marxist political economy to analyze class differentiation, it has not systematically analyzed the role of the Chinese state (as manifested in the current semi-private land system) in this transformation…

• BURAK GÜREL

What drives China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? While some claim that the BRI is primarily about economic development, others see it as a grand strategy of a rising power with hegemonic aspirations. Is the BRI about development or geopolitics? This article adopts a political economy approach to bridge the developm…

• TOLGA DEMİRYOL

Yüzyılın başından beri Çin’in yükselişi küresel tartışmalara yol açmıştır. Bugün, Çin’in uluslararası jeopolitik üzerindeki etkisi yadsınamaz bir gerçektir. Bu bağlamda ekonomik anlamdaki büyümesi ile siyasi zayıflığı arasındaki paradoks, Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti (ÇHC)’nin politikalarını önümüzdeki dönemde daha agresif ha…

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• HAKAN ERKEK

The major aim of local government is to maintain a well-established system where councils use their official power, roles, and responsibilities to work together for good order and good governance of their municipal districts. As part of their duties, local governments are expected to work toward improving social, econ…

• SEZER KAHYAOĞLU