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The history of mankind is almost same with the history of wars. Wars, occurred either in form of assault or defense, have been in essence one of the main tools used to protect national interests. Therefore, wars have constituted an important part in the evolution of international relations in centuries. The main purpose of both classical international theories, such as idealism, realism and neo-realism, and postpositivist theories, such as critical theory, constructivism, postmodernism and feminism, has been answering the question "how to provide international peace and security". However, war is not a static phenomenon. Therefore, transformation of war requires to revise and update previous analyses. This paper aims to analyze the structural change of international relations based on transformation of war. The transformation of war will be reviewed using the difference between old and new wars. Therefore, Russian hybrid war is selected as the example to understand the new war, and the content of "new wars" shaped by globalization will be analyzed based on Russian hybrid warfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Postmodernism has been instensively discussed after sixtees in the social sciences such as philosophy, art, literature, and anthropology. This study discusses the main elements of Renato Rosaldo’s anthropology who can be considered as one of the most significant representatives of postmodenism in anthropology. The aim of this paper is to put forward the elements in Rosaldo’s studies that can be considered within the postmodernism . First of all, Rosaldo, developed a critical perspective both on methodological and epistemological grounds against the classical anthropological way of dealing with culture within the postmodernist framework. Besides, he emphasized the need to attribute significance to the researcher's experiences both in and out of the field, just like the qualities of the culture under study and discourses of the people sharing that culture. In his writings, the methodological discussions on how the researcher should reflect his/her field experience in ones own work takes place to a great extent. In his later studies, Rosaldo moved his focus to a further undertanding of the globalization process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary global era it is highly important to approach the popular culture and national culture delicately and take essential precautions about the local and native cultures. In this respect, Turkish language course books and Turkish language curriculums have important duties. This paper questions the proficiency of the books and curriculums. The current study reports on a descriptive analysis of elementary Turkish language curriculums and the Turkish language textbooks (for grades 1-5; 6-8) distributed to the schools by the National Ministry of Education in 2007. Within the context of this paper, the genre and the quality of the texts have been investigated. And then, the features of the intangible cultural heritage are determined from the texts. A total of 200 (144+56) texts have been studied individually with respect to text type and their distribution. Findings have been reported in frequency tables in addition to samples from the texts. At the end the results are discussed and interpreted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study attempts to debadeted general ideas on poverty and to determine the relationship between poverty and globalization. The reason of poverty in the globalization process are examined. This paper comperatively looks at poverty elimination stratejies in different contriyes to the extand that they would from examples for Turkey. In this contex what have done and what can be do to struggle poverty is analayzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under increasing pressure of globalization, business functions such as supply, production and marketing which are items of value chain, have spreaded across the world as a spatial scale and co-ordination between these functions has increased the importance of logistics further day by day. As a result of this, logistic costs have created a large amount of costs over total cost as one of cost items in business, have reached 5-10% part of GNP expenditures in developed countries and 30% part in developing countries. Freight villages are considered to be centers give opportunities to carry out activities from one center in coordination. This paper deals with effects of new-established freight villages on business in our country in terms of logistic costs and also cost advantages they provide for enterprises. In this study, after analyzing the literature related with freight villages and logistic costs, depending on data during face to face meetings with authorised persons in Ankara Logistic Site Inc. advantages of logistic costs are revealed for enterprises by operating freight villages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]