Mobilizing the state of emergency for the economy :|the cases of Turkey, France and the European Union

Abstract

Today, our world lives through a new political process. Some political decisions and implementations are obviously results and products of a state of exception. The exception derived from internal or external causes creates a mechanism of state of emergency to handle with the causes. The state of emergency is the most important and visible legal version of the state of exception. In this study, the state of emergency will not be handled as only a legal term but also a method/mechanism of crisis management. Therefore, this thesis will show its two types: de jure and de facto and how the state of emergency (with two types) affect the economy in the hand of executive branches as well as its relationship with the legal order. The research will not only deal with the term the state of exception and the state of emergency theoretically but also reveal their projections in practice. For this purpose, the study will have the Turkish state of emergency (2016-2018) as the main case and will resort to the EU Debt Crisis (2009-2013) and the French state of emergency (2015-2017) as supporting and explanatory examples. It will show how the sovereigns (governments, presidents or administrations) employ the state of emergency to control, direct and discipline the national or regional economy. While indicating that, it will note that the current legal and institutional order will be determinant for the maneuver of the sovereigns.