The Nation or the Ummah

Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy

Birol Başkan, Ömer Taşpınar (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2022
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8648-2 (ISBN)

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Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.

Turkey's enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and transformed Turkey from a soft power to a hard power in the tangled geopolitics of the Middle East. Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar argue that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Islamist background played a significant role in the country's decision to embrace the uprisings and the subsequent foreign policy direction the country has pursued. They demonstrate that religious ideology is endogenous to-shaping and in turn being shaped by-Turkey's various engagements in the Middle East. The Nation or the Ummah emphasizes that while Islamist religious ideology does not provide specific policy prescriptions, it does shape the way the ruling elite sees and interprets the context and the structural boundaries they operate within.

Birol Başkan is non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. He is the author of several books, including Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East and From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia. Ömer Taşpınar is Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books, including What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Turkey's Traditional Kemalist Foreign Policy

2. JDP's First Decade

3. The Arab Spring

4. Islamism at Work

Conclusion: Reflections on the so-called Turkish Model

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4384-8648-0 / 1438486480
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-8648-2 / 9781438486482
Zustand	Neuware