Unravelling the Social Formation

Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50713-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 218/18, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy

In Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in analysing the dialectical relationship between global free trade and Turkish social formation since 2002. The manuscript constructs a three-levels analysis based on the social relations of production, forms of state and world order. It explores the class characteristics of the business associations, the role of the Turkish state in the process of integration into global capitalism, and at the same time, internalisation of the global class relations inside Turkish social formation. It offers a fresh evaluation of imperialism theories and the uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach from a neo-Gramscian perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Avc&

Avci, Akif

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the Political Economy of Turkey

Class Fractions in the Turkish Social Formation

Theoretical Framework

Synopses of Chapters

Chapter 1: The New Phase of Imperialism and Uneven and Combined Development

Free Trade/Transnationalisation of Production and the Role of the State

Internationalisation of the State and its Internal Functions

Conclusion

Chapter 2: A Historical Materialist Analysis of Capitalism in Turkey

The Making of Capitalism in Turkey: The Defining Role of Uneven and Combined Development

Industrial Capital Accumulation Based on the ISI Model until the 1980s

Transition to Neoliberalism: Integration into Free Trade and the Changing Role of the State

Transnationalisation of Productive Capital and the AKP

Regional Expansion of Turkish Capital through Free Trade Agreements

The Role of the State in the Expansion of the Base of Production

Conclusion

Chapter 3: The Formation of TNC, Global Free Trade, TUSIAD and the State

The Social Formation in Turkey and the Development of TUSIAD

The Class Characteristics of TUSIAD Affiliates

TUSIAD and Power Bloc: The Internal Relations between TUSIAD and the AKP

The Shift in Global Free Trade and the Uneven Trajectory of TNC in Turkey

Conclusion

Chapter 4: MUSIAD, the State and Global Integration

The Emergence of MUSIAD and the Social Formation in Turkey

A Class Based Analysis of MUSIAD

Different Capital Fractions within MUSIAD

Configurations of Relations in the Power Bloc

Reorganising the Power Bloc through Public Administration

Contradictions at the State Level

The Defining Role of Uneven and Combined Development

Conclusion

Chapter 5: TUSKON, the State and Free Trade

The Material Basis of TUSKON

The Formation of the Relationship between the State and TUSKON

The Collapse of the Relationship and 15 July Failed Coup Attempt

The Combination of TUSKON Affiliated Companies with Global Free Trade

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Conclusions to the Theoretical Arguments of the Book

From the Abstract to the Concrete: A Class-based Analysis of Business Associations

Concluding Remarks: The Changing Tendencies of Free Trade and the Transformation of the State

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Akif Avci, PhD (2019), Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, is Doctor of International Political Economy at that same university. He has published articles in different journals, such as the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Capital & Class, and New Middle Eastern Studies.