The Nation or the Ummah : Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy

Başkan, Birol/ Taşpınar, Ömer

State University of New York Press（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438486482
• DDC分類 327.561

Full Description

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.

Contents

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