This thesis is a theoretically guided empirical discussion of fashion and its role within the production of national identity in Germany. In recent years, a new patriotism in contemporary German fashion could be observed, starting with the fashion designer Eva Gronbach in 2001. I will approach the term patriotism with the aid of one of Michel Foucault’s key terms, the notion of the episteme. In...

Dış politikada denizlerin önemi uzak ve yakın tarih boyunca önemini korumaktadır. Denizlere hâkim olan dünyaya olur düşüncesi ile hareket eden Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (ABD), bu doğrultuda Arktik politikasını yeniden düzenlemektedir. Alaska Arktik’e giriş anahtarına sahip ABD, sadece deniz yolları değil ayrıca enerji güvenliği de küresel rekabette önemli bir alanda yer aldığının farkındadır....

This paper discusses Laclau and Mouffe’s post-structural theory of discourse its methodological tools that could be used for an analysis social cultural phenomena. Initially, we outline the variety discursive approaches within classification suggested by Jacob Torfing (2005) in order to explain distinctions similarities between linguistic understanding reality. Then, examine premises theory, wh...

Self-stabilizing systems of the Dolev type were first introduced by Dolev et al. in their famous paper in 1993. In contrast to self-stabilizing systems of the Dijkstra type, such self-stabilizing systems assume the read/write atomicity model instead of the composite atomicity model. In this paper, we introduce the notion of quasi-self-stabilizing systems of the Dolev type. A naturally-adapted v...

Aspect-Oriented Programming AOP extends object-oriented programming OOP with aspects to modularize crosscutting behavior on classes by means of aspects to advise base code in the occurrence of join points according to pointcut rules definition. However, join points introduce dependencies between aspects and base code, a great issue to achieve an effective independent development of software mod...