I am grateful to the Turkish Ministry of National Education for providing me with the scholarship that enabled me to write my PhD thesis at Brunel University London from which this book is drawn.
I am deeply thankful to my supervisor, Prof Ben Chigara, for his precious guidance, support and mentoring which have been instrumental to the completion and publication of this research. I also own a debt of gratitude to the examiners of my PhD thesis, Prof Mohamed Elewa Badar and Dr Antal Berkes, for their invaluable comments on the initial text and encouragement for the publication of this work.
I am also thankful to my friends at and outside Brunel for their companionship and moral support during my studies. I finally would like to thank my parents for their patience and support while I was pursuing my PhD abroad.
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