Nationalism and Foreign Policy Discourse in Turkey Under the AKP Rule: Geography, History and National Identity

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dc.citation.epage319en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage301en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber42en_US
dc.contributor.authorSaraçoğlu, C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDemirkol Ö.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:12:31Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:12:31Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe argument of this paper is that the new foreign policy orientation of Turkey under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government is a constitutive component of a new nationalist project, constructed and carried out by the AKP over the last decade. The article expounds the ways in which the AKP has reformulated the notions of nation, national history, homeland and national interest and demonstrates the role foreign policy has played in this reformulation. Our point of departure will be the patterns we have observed in the statements and political practices of the AKP government and its officials, particularly the incumbent minister of foreign affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu, whose book, Strategic Depth, presents a more systematic explanation of the major principles and assertions of AKP nationalism and foreign policy. We will also argue that after the Gezi protests in June 2013 this new conception of nation and nationalism has faced with a deep crisis, which has also exacerbated the problem of pursuing an ambitious foreign policy strategy in international arena. © 2014, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13530194.2014.947152en_US
dc.identifier.issn13530194
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/23347
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2014.947152en_US
dc.source.titleBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studiesen_US
dc.subjectforeign policyen_US
dc.subjectgovernmenten_US
dc.subjectnational identityen_US
dc.subjectnationalismen_US
dc.subjectpolitical discourseen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleNationalism and Foreign Policy Discourse in Turkey Under the AKP Rule: Geography, History and National Identityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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