Bu kitap Fransız düşünür Louis Althusser’in devlet aygıtlarına yönelik ortaya koymuş olduğu sınıflandırmayı ordu-siyaset ilişkisi perspektifinden ele alarak Türkiye örneğine uyarlandığında ortaya çıkan sonuçları tartışmayı hedeflemiştir. Modernleşme projesinin ağırlıklı olarak askeri elitler aracılığıyla gerçekleştirildiği söylenebilecek olan Türkiye’nin siyasal yaşamında ordunun yalnızca bir baskı aygıtı değil ondan daha da ön planda dönemsel olarak ideolojik bir aygıt işlevi gördüğü iddiasından yola çıkılmıştır. Bilhassa Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devleti’nin kuruluş felsefesinin fikri bir karşılığı olarak kabul edilebilecek Kemalizm ideolojisinin sahip olduğu temel prensip ve yaklaşımların topluma yayılmasında ordunun üstlendiği fonksiyonlar ortaya konulmak istenmiştir. Bu çerçevede Türkiye’nin politik yapısında silahlı kuvvetlerin niçin salt bir baskı aygıtı olarak değerlendirilemeyeceği sorusuna da yanıt aranmaya çalışılmıştır.

Bu çalışmada, küresel spot doğal gaz piyasaları incelenerek, Türkiye’de yaşanan serbestleşme sürecinde, spot doğal gaz piyasasındaki fiyatların hangi faktörlerden etkilenebileceği belirlenmeye, arz ve fiyat güvenliği için neler yapılması gerektiği hakkında öneriler getirilmeye çalışılmıştır.

This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

– Origins and alternative definitions of complementarity and substitutions,

– Eleven implications of these relationships for economic growth and development,

– Many explanations and references for inferences regarding growth accounting, poverty traps and thresholds, multiple eqilibria, obsolescence, financial development, growth accelerations, imitations and barriers, and empirical anaysis.

The book is for anyone looking for an alternative way to learn about the basics of the growth process. Researchers, students, and staffs at universities and research institutions and other social scientists in government, business, international organizations should greatly benefit from reading the book.

Zunehmenden Qualitätsanforderungen an Automobilindustrie erfordern die reibungslose Entwicklungs- und Produktionsprozesse. Um die Entwicklungs- und Produktionsprozesse perfekt zu gestalten, die Fehler vorzubeugen und somit die Qualität sicherzustellen, müssen Automobilzulieferer Methoden und Werkzeug des Qualitätsmanagement anwenden. In diesem Kontext bafasst sich dieses Buch mit den Qualitätsmanagementsystemen und den Techniken von Qualitätsmanagement. Auf Basis der einschlägigen Literatur wurden die Bedeutung der Qualität, Qualitätsmanagement,  Qualitätsmanagementsysteme und deren Entstehung und geschichtliche Entwicklung dargestellt. Des weiteren wurden die bereits existierenden Managementmodelle und Konzepte beschrieben und erörtert. Weiteres wurden die QM-Techniken herausgearbeitet.

The Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious project in the 21^st century. Its main goals are infrastructure development, financial integration, people to people connectivity. Developing countries which desperately need infrastructure upgrade welcomed Chinese investments, finding an opportunity to be connected to global economy. Although economic and political consequences are discussed in the literature, the spatial consequences of the Belt and Road Initiative are neglected. The Belt and Road Initiative lays out six main economic corridors, reconfiguring the space across the continents. Eurasia, where three of six economic corridors pass through, is mostly affected by this spatial process. The countries in Eurasia are linked with corridors on which dry ports, special economic zones, and free trade areas are set up. This signifies new spatial characteristics in Eurasia.