Construction of New Turkey: Turkish Identity in Transition: From Kemalist Hyper-Modernism to Religious Conservatism

by Orhun Cem Karsavuran

Overview

This work analyses the transformation of the Turkish society through a constructivist perspective in the context of a transformational shift from the "traditional" experienced throughout the JDP tenure and examine the entrenched clash of identities between the Islamists and the secularists in Turkish politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631804551
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/23/2019
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Orhun Cem Karsavuran is a lecturer in International Relations and Political Science at the Hasan Kalyoncu University (Turkey). He holds a degree from the University of London, MA from the University of Kent and PHD from the Yeditepe University (İstanbul). His interests include Int Rel theory, foreign policy, populism, turkish politics, political theory and modernisation-democratisation process.

Table of Contents

JDP – Constructivism – Transformational shift – Traditional – New foreign policy – Domestic – Convergent – Instrumentalism and expediency – Value – Clash of identities, – Secularists –Islamists 1. Erdoğan’s New Turkey – Identity Matrix – Transformation – A New Islamist State – Emergence of Erdoğanism – Demise of Kemalism