1st Edition
Islamism, Populism, and Turkish Foreign Policy
1. Introduction: Populism and Islamism in Turkey Bill Park 2. Turkey’s ‘Western’ or ‘Muslim’ identity and the AKP’s civilizational discourse Menderes Çinar 3. Populism and foreign policy in Turkey under the AKP rule Burak Bilgehan Özpek and Nebahat Tanriverdi Yaşar 4. Dark taints on the looking glass: Whither ‘New Turkey’? Mustafa A. Sezal and İhsan Sezal 5. Politicization of recent Turkish history: (ab)use of history as a political discourse in Turkey Mustafa Serdar Palabiyik 6. Islamism and Turkey’s foreign policy during the Arab Spring Birol Başkan 7. Neo-developmentalist turn in the global political economy? The Turkish case Mustafa Kutlay and Hüseyin Emrah Karaoğuz
Biography
Burak Bilgehan Özpek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. His main research interests include the de facto states, Kurdish question, contemporary politics of the Middle East and Turkish foreign policy.
Bill Park is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College, London, UK. He is on the editorial board of Mediterranean Politics and the Council of the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), and specialises in Turkish foreign policy and Kurdish issues.
