Critical readings of Turkey's foreign policy / / Birsen Erdoğan and Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910568264703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-030-97637-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
• Disciplina: 328.71092
• Soggetti: International relations - 20th century; Security, International
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Critical Readings of Turkey's Foreign Policy -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Why Critical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis? -- Why Turkey's Foreign Policy and Why This Book? -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Turkey in the Modern International -- Turkey and the Colonial/Modern International -- Introduction -- Modernity/Coloniality -- Coloniality of International Relations -- Turkey and the Colonial/Modern International -- Conclusion -- References -- A Critical Geopolitical Reading of Turkish Foreign Policy -- Critical Geopolitics: Geography and the Nexus of Power and Knowledge -- From the "Sick Man of Europe" to A Sovereign Nation: Turkey in the Context of Imperialist Geopolitics -- Cold War Insecurities and Discovery of the New West: America -- 1960s and the Rise of Anti-geopolitics in the World and Turkey's Partial Disengagement from US -- Conclusion -- References -- (Geo)Culture in the Making of Turkish Foreign Policy: Three Levels, One Perspective -- Introduction -- The System and the Changing Nature of Its Geoculture -- The State and Its "Geoculture" -- Statesmen and the Geocultural Discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- Turkey's Imagined Communities/Geographies -- Mapping Africa: Cartographies of Imagination and Intervention in Turkey -- Political and Analytical Hegemony of Geographical Imagination -- Contributions ; of an Ethnography of Mapmaking -- Humanitarian Cartography "Excluding South Africa" -- Small and Medium Entrepreneurs and the Un-Africanness of Big Economies -- South Africa: A Gateway to the Continent for the Political and Economic Elite of Turkey -- Conclusion: Accounting for Competing Maps -- References -- Understanding the Place of the Global South Within Turkey's View of World Order -- Introduction.; The Literature on the Turkish Foreign Policy in the Global South -- Theoretical Framework and Selected Method of Research -- Representations of the Global South in the Discourses of the Political Elites in Turkey -- The (Lack of) Agency of the Global South -- The Attribution of Negative Traits to the Global South -- Conclusion -- References -- The Momentary Glory of Banal Ottomanism -- Introduction -- Theoretical Grounds: Anderson and Billig -- Neo-Ottomanism in the Early 2000s -- A Stillborn Phoenix: Ottomanism Goes Back to Its Basics -- Conclusion -- References -- Articulating New and Old 'Friends' -- Turkey-China Rapprochement: Turkey's Reconstruction of Its Liminality? -- Introduction -- The Social Structure of International Politics: Liminality -- Turkey-China Rapprochement: Cooperation Between Liminals? -- Turkey's Spatial Liminality as an Asset: The Middle Corridor Initiative -- Turkey's Temporal Liminality as an Asset: A Developing Country -- Conclusion -- References -- Friendship, Leadership and Hegemonic Masculinity: An Interpersonal Relationship Between Turkey and Russia -- Introduction -- Friendship, Leadership, Hegemonic Masculinity -- The Interpersonal Aspect of the Turkish-Russian Relations -- Conclusion -- References -- Turkey's Relations with the EU from a Critical Perspective: From Europhilism to Anti-Europeanism (2002-2021) -- Introduction -- The Power of Discourse and Foreign Policies -- Phase I: Europhilism in Erdoğan's Discourse (2002-2005) -- Phase II: De-Valuation of the EU and Euro-Scepticism in Erdoğan's Discourse (2005-2012) -- Phase III: Anti-Europeanism in Erdoğan's Discourse (2013-2021) -- The Gezi Park Events -- The Migrant Crisis of 2015 and the EU-Turkey Deal in 2016 -- 15 July 2016 Failed Coup Attempt -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Limbo of (In)Security.; Turkish-Greek Relations After the Cold War: Changing Dynamics of Securitisation and Desecuritisation -- Introduction -- Securitisation, Desecuritisation, and the Politics of Security -- Turkish-Greek Relations from the Perspective of Securitisation and Desecuritisation -- Problematic Years in Bilateral Relations (1990-1999): The Peak of Securitisation -- The Rapprochement Era (1999-2016): Desecuritisation -- Re-securitisation: Back to Square One? -- Conclusion -- References -- Making Sense of Turkey's Unilateral Military Interventions: Identity, Interests and Security -- Introduction -- On Politics of Identity, Interests and Security -- A Brief Genealogy of the Turkish Articulation of Self -- Identity and Interests Redefined Under AKP -- Performing Identity: Turkish Practices of the Use of Force -- Conclusion -- References -- International Interventions and Turkish Foreign Policy Discourses Regarding Libya and Syria -- Introduction -- Post-structuralist Discourse Theory -- Crisis -- Dislocation -- Chains of Equivalence, Antagonisms, and the Instability of Identity -- Military Interventions and Turkish Foreign Policy -- The Arab Spring as Dislocation (and a Perceived Opportunity) for Turkey -- Syria as Crisis and the Transformation of the Notion of External Interventions -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusions Drawn from Critical Readings of Turkey's Foreign Policy -- How Do States Make Decisions in Foreign Policy? -- Why Does Identity Play an Important Role in Analyses of Turkey's Foreign Policy? -- References -- Index.