"Turkey's Place in the New World Order"

Osman Ulagay is our guest speaker at the Voyvoda Street Political Economy Lectures this month with a presentation entitled "Turkey's Place in the New World Order," in which he discusses Turkey's status in the globalizing world. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7, at 6:30 p.m.  

Our world is rapidly changing. The multidimensional transformation that accompanies globalization not only changes the balance between economic and political powers but also turns ecological balance upside down. The catastrophe scenarios that global warming could bring about are impossible to ignore. The rapid growth of countries like China and India challenge the West's 150 year-long economic supremacy and make the search for a new world order more urgent. If, by keeping a close eye on this process of transformation, Turkey is ready to correctly assess new threats and opportunities as they arise, it will be able to determine the strategies that will contribute to the creation of the new world order and at the same time achieve global prominence. Seen from this viewpoint, debates over "Turkey's place in the new world order" acquire greater relevance.

Osman Ulagay Born in 1943 in Istanbul, Ulagay finished Robert College high school then graduated from the Department of Economics at Robert College (today's Boğaziçi University), and followed this up with an MA in political science from Manchester University. He has held several posts in the pharmaceuticals and beer industry and in the advertising sector. Ulagay, who started his career in journalism as a correspondent for Cumhuriyet, became the same paper's chief economic correspondent in 1981. In 1992, he transferred as an economic correspondent to Sabah. and in the fall of 1993, joined the Milliyet staff where he currently writes a column. Ulagay has published 11 books to date including, 24 Ocak Deneyimi Üzerine (1983) Krize Adım Adım (1994), Quo Vadis? / Küreselleşmenin İki Yüzü (1999), Hedefteki Amerika "11 Eylül Şoku" (2002) and Tepki Cephesi (2005).

Voyvoda Street Political Economy Lectures "Turkey's Place in the New World Order" Osman Ulagay Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Free admission The Ottoman Bank Museum Bankalar (Voyvoda) Caddesi 35/37 (0212) 334 22 70