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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Global Power Shift and Liberalism -- Chapter 3. Turkey and the Liberal Philosophy of History -- Chapter 4. Nationalism and the Meaning of Modernization -- Chapter 5. Interpreting the Liberal International Order -- Chapter 6. Approaching the Non-West: Russia and China -- Chapter 7. Narratives of the Syrian War and the Pandemic -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

This study uses the concepts of national and state identity to examine Turkey's domestic and international politics and explain how the country's position in the international system has changed over the last ten years. State identity is understood as the end result of a transformed national identity, linking both domestic and international levels.

The nature and content of Kemalist ideology in Turkey during the last twenty years is analysed in this book. In order to place the current manifestations of this Turkish official modernising ideology in the two-part context of globalisation and the re-sacralisation of the world, Contemporary Kemalism scrutinises the texts of five prominent Kemalist intellectuals. After defining the unquestioned ideological premises of Kemalism, such as its implied liberal philosophy of history, and its idea about human nature, the book describes Kemalism's vision of the ideal society. Kemalism's close relationship to social democracy and neo-nationalism is then discussed in detail. Also included is an analysis of contemporary Kemalism's relation to earlier Kemalist articulations. The study demonstrates that various previous assumptions, both Western and Turkish, concerning Kemalism's nature and content are too simplistic, and thus unable to account for the endurance of this ideology and its continuing relevancy in present-day Turkey. Inviting the reader to contemplate contemporary Kemalism's ambiguous relationship with the Western world, this book will be of value to scholars and researchers with an interest in Middle Eastern Politics, Modernization Theory and Political Ideology.

FEUTURE EU 28 Country Report Finland One can argue that two major ideas have characterized the Finnish debate on EU-Turkey relations since 1999: 1) Finland has taken a position according to which enlargement of the European Union (EU) in general is a positive development and something that Finland therefore explicitly supports; 2) Ever since the confirmation of Turkey's official candidate status in the Helsinki European Council of 1999, Finland has strongly supported Turkey's EU membership. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein

Während des vergangenen Jahrzehnts haben Russland und die Türkei eine formale strategische Allianz entwickelt, die auf intensiven wirtschaftlichen Bindungen, gemeinsamen Energieprojekten und einer von beiden geteilten Ablehnung einer Verwestlichung gründete. Darüber hinaus haben die Präsidenten Putin und Erdoğan eine persönliche Beziehung entwickelt, in der politische Differenzen stets heruntergespielt wurden. Nachdem die Türkei über Syrien ein russisches Kampfflugzeug abgeschossen hat, liegen die russisch-türkischen Beziehungen bis auf Weiteres in Trümmern. Obwohl wechselseitige wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten auf eine Normalisierung der Beziehungen hinweisen könnte, ist eine solche wegen der langfristig sich vollkommen gegenüberstehenden strategischen Ziele hinsichtlich Syrien und der in der russischen Führung bestehenden Wahrnehmung von Verrat und Erniedrigung nirgendwo in Sicht. Direkt gesagt, scheinen Russland und die Türkei jetzt am Rande eines Krieges zu stehen.

This study demonstrates how profoundly Turkey's main social clevage –Islam versus Secularism – is produced and reproduced by political parties in their attempts to form coherent sociopolitical bloc as a basis of mass support. The main purpose is to challenge the paradigm which understands social cleavages to be part of a 'social structure' that exists prior to political articulations. According to this standard perspective, social cleavages create the demand for political parties.

Introduction - The Power of Narratives in Political Contexts -- Part I - Non-State Actors and Regional Powers Narrating and Reshaping Order: Wartime Narratives of Hezbollah Militants in the Syrian Conflict -- Chasing the Wind: Clashes of Israeli and Palestinian Narratives, -- Turkey as the Order-producing Country: Narrating the 'New Turkey' in the Middle East -- Evolving Narratives of Political Contestation and Geopolitical Rivalry in the Persian Gulf -- Part II - Global Players' Narratives Towards MENA Instability: Russia in the Middle East: In Search of Its Place -- China and the Middle East: Narrating Multi-polarity.-American Narratives of Order-building in the Middle East: Dashed Visions on the Nile -- The European Union's Epic Conceptualisations of the Southern Neighbourhood: a Narratological Take on the Mediterranean Story -- Conclusion: Narrative (Dis)Order in Today's MENA. .

This book revisits the concept of strategic culture by examining the relationships between Russia and its neighbors in the east and west. The book explains how the competing Russian and western influences create innovative strategies, that display common regional characteristics of the different countries' cultures.