Sertac Sonan
Biographic Data
| ID | 332065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sertac Sonan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sertac |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonan |
| SIGNATURE | SONAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cyprus International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6074-6651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Within the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. The purpose of the paper is threefold: 1) to identify the multipl…
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State
De facto states, which by definition lack international recognition, rely on internal legitimacy for their survival. Based on original survey data (N = 1663), this paper investigates internal legitimacy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a de facto state, using a theoretical model which disaggregates internal legitimacy into three components – state, regime and institutions. Our regression analysis shows that the absence of collec…
Emerging Economic Partners
The expanding economic and political footprint of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the global landscape is generating heated debates, yet surprisingly, BRICS' economic relations with countries subjected to Western economic sanctions have received limited scholarly attention. This article aims to fill this gap in the existing literature by analysing the evolving trade and investment relations between BRICS and Zimbabwe. The…
Gridlocked
This article studies the electricity grid as a manifestation and medium of energy dependency relations. It analyses the experience of managing the electricity grid on the politically divided island of Cyprus over the past six decades to reappraise notions of the grid as a sociotechnical connector. The insularity of the Cypriot grid has made collaboration across the political divide between the Greek Cypriot South and Turkish Cypriot North over th…
City profile
Political Participation among Natives and Immigrants
Based on an original survey (n = 1,017), this paper examines citizens’ participation patterns in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (‘TRNC’), a de facto state recognised only by Turkey. Since 1974 the ‘TRNC’ has been receiving a constant flow of immigrants from its patron state (Turkey). While Turkish immigrants make up a sizeable proportion of the electorate, they seem to be underrepresented in the political arena. Our findings show that,…
Yet Another Case of Electoral and Government Epidemic? The Turkish Cypriot Legislative Election of January 2018
Following Bosco and Verney’s analyses of ‘electoral’ and ‘government epidemics’, the 2018 Turkish Cypriot legislative election is examined in the context of the impact of the economic crisis on elections and government formation in southern Europe. Despite its obvious idiosyncrasies as a self-declared state with 335, 000 inhabitants, in the last decade of economic crisis and austerity policies, the Turkish Cypriot case has followed a largely simi…
Trade unions and politics in Cyprus
This article is the first comparative study on the historical development of trade unions in Cyprus. It assesses the impact of the historical trajectory and ethnic division on the contemporary condition of the trade unions, which substantially diverge from each other. It compares and contrasts the framework, conditions and forms of trade unionism across the dividing line, focusing on the current conjuncture and accounts for them using a historica…
Yet Another Case of Electoral and Government Epidemic? The Turkish Cypriot Legislative Election of January 2018
Following Bosco and Verney’s analyses of ‘electoral’ and ‘government epidemics’, the 2018 Turkish Cypriot legislative election is examined in the context of the impact of the economic crisis on elections and government formation in southern Europe. Despite its obvious idiosyncrasies as a self-declared state with 335, 000 inhabitants, in the last decade of economic crisis and austerity policies, the Turkish Cypriot case has followed a largely simi…
City profile
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State
De facto states, which by definition lack international recognition, rely on internal legitimacy for their survival. Based on original survey data (N = 1663), this paper investigates internal legitimacy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a de facto state, using a theoretical model which disaggregates internal legitimacy into three components – state, regime and institutions. Our regression analysis shows that the absence of collec…
Political Participation among Natives and Immigrants
Based on an original survey (n = 1,017), this paper examines citizens’ participation patterns in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (‘TRNC’), a de facto state recognised only by Turkey. Since 1974 the ‘TRNC’ has been receiving a constant flow of immigrants from its patron state (Turkey). While Turkish immigrants make up a sizeable proportion of the electorate, they seem to be underrepresented in the political arena. Our findings show that,…
Trade unions and politics in Cyprus
This article is the first comparative study on the historical development of trade unions in Cyprus. It assesses the impact of the historical trajectory and ethnic division on the contemporary condition of the trade unions, which substantially diverge from each other. It compares and contrasts the framework, conditions and forms of trade unionism across the dividing line, focusing on the current conjuncture and accounts for them using a historica…
Trade unions and politics in Cyprus
This article is the first comparative study on the historical development of trade unions in Cyprus. It assesses the impact of the historical trajectory and ethnic division on the contemporary condition of the trade unions, which substantially diverge from each other. It compares and contrasts the framework, conditions and forms of trade unionism across the dividing line, focusing on the current conjuncture and accounts for them using a historica…
Yet Another Case of Electoral and Government Epidemic? The Turkish Cypriot Legislative Election of January 2018
Following Bosco and Verney’s analyses of ‘electoral’ and ‘government epidemics’, the 2018 Turkish Cypriot legislative election is examined in the context of the impact of the economic crisis on elections and government formation in southern Europe. Despite its obvious idiosyncrasies as a self-declared state with 335, 000 inhabitants, in the last decade of economic crisis and austerity policies, the Turkish Cypriot case has followed a largely simi…
Political Participation among Natives and Immigrants
Based on an original survey (n = 1,017), this paper examines citizens’ participation patterns in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (‘TRNC’), a de facto state recognised only by Turkey. Since 1974 the ‘TRNC’ has been receiving a constant flow of immigrants from its patron state (Turkey). While Turkish immigrants make up a sizeable proportion of the electorate, they seem to be underrepresented in the political arena. Our findings show that,…
City profile
Gridlocked
This article studies the electricity grid as a manifestation and medium of energy dependency relations. It analyses the experience of managing the electricity grid on the politically divided island of Cyprus over the past six decades to reappraise notions of the grid as a sociotechnical connector. The insularity of the Cypriot grid has made collaboration across the political divide between the Greek Cypriot South and Turkish Cypriot North over th…
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Within the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. The purpose of the paper is threefold: 1) to identify the multipl…
Internal Legitimacy in a De Facto State
De facto states, which by definition lack international recognition, rely on internal legitimacy for their survival. Based on original survey data (N = 1663), this paper investigates internal legitimacy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a de facto state, using a theoretical model which disaggregates internal legitimacy into three components – state, regime and institutions. Our regression analysis shows that the absence of collec…
Emerging Economic Partners
The expanding economic and political footprint of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the global landscape is generating heated debates, yet surprisingly, BRICS' economic relations with countries subjected to Western economic sanctions have received limited scholarly attention. This article aims to fill this gap in the existing literature by analysing the evolving trade and investment relations between BRICS and Zimbabwe. The…
Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Turkish (4 works) · Austerity (2 works) · De facto (2 works)