Turkey{u2019}s Foreign Policy Narratives Implications of Global Power Shifts

This book offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives in a period of global power shifts. By examining international and national historical processes, the author highlights narrative processes and traditions that describe Turkey and its position in world politics. He also analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's increasingly active and confusing foreign policy and the narratives associated with it. The book covers topics such as Kemalist modernization, Islamic conservative views of the New World Order, Turkey's relations with non-Western countries such as Russia and China, and Turkish narratives of the Syrian war and the COVID-19-pandemic. It is intended for scholars of international relations and European and Middle Eastern politics, and appeals to anyone interested in Turkish history and politics. Preface Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Turkey in the World: Change as Processes and Narratives 1.2 Research Questions and the Structure of the Book References 2 The Global Power Shift and Liberalism 2.1 The Liberal Narrative in IR 2.2 Liberal Contradictions and the Multiplex Word References 3 Turkey and the Liberal Philosophy of History 3.1 The European Context of Kemalist Modernization 3.2 Kemalism Past and Present 3.3 Turkey in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization References 4 Nationalism and the Meaning of Modernization 4.1 The Domestic Power Struggle and the Politics of History 4.2 Legitimacy, Foreign Policy, and Defensive Modernization References 5 Interpreting the Liberal International Order 5.1 Islamic-Conservative Views on the New World Order 5.2 Secular-Liberal Alternatives References 6 Approaching the Non-west: China and Russia 6.1 Turkey and China in the New World Order 6.2 Narrating Russo-Turkish Rapprochement References 7 Narratives of the Syrian War and the Pandemic 7.1 Contextualizing Turkish Narratives of the Syrian War 7.2 The Pandemic and Turkish Visions of the Post-Pandemic World References 8 Conclusion