Project description
Understanding Turkey’s foreign policy change
Since the Arab Spring protests of 2011, Turkey’s enthusiasm for attaining EU membership while maintaining ‘soft power’ regional influence has been redirected to actively wanting to reshape the Middle East as purported leader of the Muslim World. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) ID&TFP project will investigate why the change was deemed necessary and how it was achievable. Moreover, it will explore the imposition of religious-nationalist control on Turkish politics. Primary sources will be utilised to investigate the effects foreign and domestic policy can have on national identity, and how identity exploitation can leverage domestic politics. Ultimately, the project delineates the mechanisms behind foreign policy transformation, including how and why certain policies become dominant. It also addresses foreign policy influence on creating a stable domestic order.
Objective
ID&TFP examines Turkey’s foreign policy reorientation during the 2010s and contributes to academic debates on foreign policy transformation and foreign policy's role in domestic politics. During the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s first decade in power, it prioritised Turkey’s European Union (EU) membership and sought to increase Turkey’s influence through soft power instruments. However, soon after the Arab Spring protests broke out in 2011, the AKP began asserting its ambition to shape the Middle East in its vision by supporting political actors affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya and Syria. It has been portraying Turkey as the leader of the Muslim world, championing the Palestinian cause, building an international coalition to combat Islamophobia, and calling for the reform of the international order. ID&TFP seeks to understand (a) why a reorientation was perceived as necessary and possible by the Turkish decision-makers and (b) the role it has been playing in the AKP governments’ efforts to change the domestic order in its attempt to extend its religious-nationalist hegemony over Turkish politics. It connects foreign policy and domestic politics through a focus on identity, and offers to study a wide range of primary sources to understand the articulation of Turkish identity in the foreign policy discourse and to explain how identity has been instrumentalised in domestic politics. Through the case study, ID&TFP explores why and how foreign policies transform and how foreign policy is used to establish and stabilise a domestic political order, which are issues central to foreign policy analysis. ID&TFP also contributes to the literature on discursive policy analysis by providing a critical explanation of why particular policy discourses become dominant, how they contest the dominant orders, and understanding of how support for or compliance with certain policies is generated.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
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