Academic research and writing catalogue.https://ilyaskayraak.com/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/universal-values-coercive-modernity/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/universal-values-coercive-modernity/A personal reflection on the tension between universal political values and the unequal power relations through which they have been institutionalized. It asks how democracy and human rights can be defended while confronting their coercive histories and the authoritarian appropriation of anti-colonial critique.https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/politics-of-decline/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/politics-of-decline/A reading of Nahid Sırrı Örik’s Sultan Hamid Düşerken through political transition, gender, and the representation of history. The paper explores how private ambition, family relations, and moral compromise illuminate the dissolution of an Ottoman social and bureaucratic order.https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/public-financial-management-law-5018/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/public-financial-management-law-5018/An analysis of Turkey’s public financial management reform through Law No. 5018, focusing on internal control, auditing, and accountability. Drawing on institutional reports and interviews, the study examines the gap between the reform’s formal framework and the practical capacity and independence of oversight institutions.https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/basque-country-and-local-governance/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/basque-country-and-local-governance/An examination of the Basque Country’s local governance, fiscal autonomy, and regional development. Drawing on Marxist, pluralist, and Weberian-institutionalist perspectives, the paper explores how self-government shapes economic inequalities, regional identity, and relations with the Spanish state.https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/defining-oneself-anew/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/defining-oneself-anew/A course paper that uses a science-fiction narrative to explore urbanization, family history, and the making of identity. Moving between an imagined future and intergenerational experiences of social change, it considers how work, place, and memory shape a sense of self.https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/reconfiguring-the-dormitories/https://ilyaskayraak.com/writing/reconfiguring-the-dormitories/A collaborative study of common spaces and living conditions in METU student dormitories, combining a questionnaire with qualitative interviews. It examines how spatial arrangements relate to everyday needs, social interaction, and belonging, and proposes improvements to shared and private spaces.https://ilyaskayraak.com/tr/writing/modern-singapurun-insasi/https://ilyaskayraak.com/tr/writing/modern-singapurun-insasi/Singapur’un kalkınma deneyimini sömürge mirası, teknokratik yönetim ve devletin ekonomik rolü üzerinden inceleyen bir yazı. Yabancı yatırım ve piyasa odaklı politikaların güçlü devlet müdahalesiyle nasıl bir araya geldiğini, ekonomik büyümenin siyasal ve toplumsal gerilimleriyle birlikte ele alıyor.https://ilyaskayraak.com/tr/writing/turkiye-avrupa-birligi/https://ilyaskayraak.com/tr/writing/turkiye-avrupa-birligi/Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliği ile ilişkilerinin tarihsel seyrini, üyelik hedefi ve reform süreçleri üzerinden ele alan bir yazı. Müzakerelerin belirsizliğini demokratikleşme, Batılılaşma ve Avrupa kimliğinin sınırları hakkındaki tartışmalarla birlikte değerlendiriyor.