Bu kitap Türkiye sağlık sisteminin yeni modelini detaylı olarak incelerken hayata geçirilen politika transferinin nedenlerini araştırmaktadır. Politika transferi literatüründeki farklı modelleri inceleyen ve Türkiye’nin sağlık politikasının transferinin hibrit ve gönüllü bir transfer olduğunu ortaya koyan çalışma, ders çıkarma modeli ile köklü reformların sebebini açıklamaktadır. Çalışma teorik olarak bir gönüllü transfer mekanizması olan ders çıkarma modelinin öngörmediği iki etkenin – siyasi mutabakat ve kararlılık – transferdeki önemli rolünü ve ampirik olarak Türkiye sağlık reformlarının bir politika transferi olduğunu detaylı bir analizle ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca Türkiye’de gerçekleştirilen reformları incelerken literatüre hakim olan  Avrupalılaşma çalışmalarına eleştirel bir bakışla yaklaşan proje AB’nin dönüştürücü etkisine tabii olan aday ülkelerde Avrupalılaşmanın dışında farklı süreçlerin paralel olarak yürüyebileceğine örnek bir çalışma ortaya koyan proje bu kadar kapsamlı ve köklü reformların gönüllü olarak yapılabileceğine de bir örnek olmuştur.

Turkey and African countries decade’srelationships provides a concise and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, spanning from the earlier era of the Ottoman Empire, to the Turkish Republic and later, to the Justice and Development Party.

This is an introductory book which provides sources and materials on Turkey and African countries relations. Drawing on history from the Ottoman Empire, to Turkish Republic and the Justice and Development Party, this book provides firsthand information on their relations. Showing how Turkey and African countries that are located on different continents established relationship, it goes on to consider how they support each other at international stages. The book deals, in particular, with political, economic, social and cultural relations between Turkey and African countries; it explorers the challenges they face in military and security terms. This general introductory text benefits students, scholars and researchers eager to gain an insight into Turkey and African countries relations.

Kieran E. Uchehara was formerly a lecturer at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Turkey.

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.