Safeguarding Free Market Relations in and beyond the National Markets: The Integration of the Turkish Economy in the post-1980 period, and the Co-Assistance between the Turkish State and the IMF
Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: University of York, Birleşik Krallık
Tez Danışmanı: Rob Aitken
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2002
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Özet:
This paper addresses the role and functioning of the Turkish state in the integration of national economy with the global market, and the relations with the
IMF in this process. It aims to clarify this role by focusing on the state-economy relation, the definition of the national state, and the understanding of it within the interstate system. In this context, I will argue that the national state is one of the moments of capitalist form - where the other one is the economy - and it functions within the capitalist social form in order to protect and safeguard free market relations. This requires the integration of the national economy into the global market since in the context of globalisation the accumulation of capital is only possible through the opening- up of markets. I will suggest that the national state is not on its own in this process. International financial institutions are in co-assistance with the national states in order to reduce the pain of financial liberalisation, and ensure the security of the global market. This paper analyses the integration of the Turkish economy that has been achieved by the co-assistance of the Turkish state and the IMF in the post-1980 liberalisation period. I will indicate that the changing interests of the power bloc initiated a shift in the state’s economic policy from import-substitution to export-orientation in these years. The key point of this study is that the Turkish state
functions to safeguard and protect free market relations both in and beyond its borders, and it is not forced but assisted by the IMF to integrate into the world
market. It is not a neutral body but a capitalist state, and the national state’s regulation of the economy is no more than a myth in capitalist societies.