Senem Aydın-Düzgit
Biographic Data
| ID | 107655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Senem Aydın-Düzgit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Senem |
| FAMILY NAME | Aydın-Düzgit |
| SIGNATURE | AYDIN-DÜZGIT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8177-9957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine
This forum critically reflects on the democracy support agenda and its future in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the decline of Western political and normative dominance, and overall global democratic backsliding. Posing four topical questions to five leading scholars in the field—from Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia—it finds that these wars appear systemic in the sense that they sharpen alr…
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises
The European Union (EU) has recently faced consecutive, sudden and unexpected challenges of a large magnitude, such as the migration crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine. Through an analysis of two key, sudden and unexpected relatively recent crises in the EU’s immediate southern neighbourhood—namely the 2015 migration crisis and the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey—this paper sheds light on whether the EU has generated protean power in res…
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: Lineages and contradictions of an idea
Strategic autonomy has become a guiding principle for several states as the international order moves toward multipolarity. Turkey has also attempted to carve out a more autonomous space from its traditional Western allies by building new ties in the non-Western world, ranging from the Russia–China axis to the Middle East and beyond. This paper explores the idea and practice of strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy. We argue that strategic…
Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: The case of the May 2023 elections in Turkey
Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy: An Introduction
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power
International crises and authoritarian resilience: Lessons from Hungary and Turkey
Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s
This article scrutinizes the role of women’s rights and women actors in Turkey’s public diplomacy strategy in the 1930s and discusses whether and if so how it managed to change the long-standing European prejudices against Turkey. Accordingly, first, the article discusses the early reforms of the Turkish Republic and their European reception. Then, relying on critical discourse analysis, it examines two prominent cases; namely, Keriman Halis’ vic…
State capacity and populist rule in times of uncertainty: Covid-19 response in South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey
In an age of 'radical uncertainty,' state capacity proves critical for countries to contain 'wicked crises' and improve the resilience of societies.At the same time, authoritarian populism has come to dominate politics in several countries.The impact of populist leadership on state capacity, however, remains an under-researched theme.We explore how populist rule has impeded effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic by weakening state capacity…
How Erdoğan Rules Through Crisis
What does the enduring rule of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tell us about the resilience of authoritarian populism despite economic and governance crises? This essay argues that a key source of authoritarian resilience lies in the mutually reinforcing interaction of state capture and market capture. The AKP government not only established firm control over state institutions but also reshaped state-market relations in a way that helped…
Authoritarian middle powers and the liberal order: Turkey's contestation of the EU
The conventional expectation that middle powers support the liberal international order (LIO) is now increasingly being questioned. This article seeks to explore why and how emerging authoritarian middle powers contest the LIO through a study of Turkey's contestation of the EU. By conceptualizing contestations of the LIO as claims to global justice, the article examines the justice claims that underlie Turkey's contestation; with regard to discou…
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers
This article aims to explore how Russia and Turkey contest the EU's actorness in their shared neighbourhoods and beyond. By adopting the theoretical lens that exerting actorness requires justification and by conceptualizing contestation as an inherently relational and discursive process, it utilizes qualitative content analysis to trace the discursive justifications that are employed by Russia and Turkey in delegitimizing the EU in their shared n…
A model no more? Debating Turkish influence in the southern neighbourhood
Turkey has often in the past been presented by the West as a model for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to emulate. Drawing on interpretivist theoretical premises which conceptualize an international actor’s normative agency through its external recognition in the target states and by employing frame analysis, we examine the alternative ideas of political governance associated with Turkey by the political elites in Egypt b…
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: Re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century
In this article, we conceptualize and demonstrate how historical International Relations (IR) can be employed to critically engage with the populist uses of history at present. In this endeavour, we focus on myths as analytical nodal points. We revisit the rich interdisciplinary literature on myths to conceptually connect historical research that unsettles myths with political critiques of myths in terms of their naturalizing effects at present. …
Constructivist Approaches to EU–Turkey Relations
This chapter provides a critical survey of constructivist approaches to EU–Turkey relations, which place significance on the role of norms, identities, discourse, ideas, and values in the relationship. It outlines the main contours of the constructivist school of thought in International Relations (IR) with a discussion of how the different variants of constructivism can be applied to the study of the case of EU–Turkey relations. It is followed b…
Can non-democracies support international democracy? Turkey as a case study
In recent years, there has been a rise of interest in the concept of autocracy promotion, with scholars questioning whether the efforts by authoritarian governments to influence political transitions beyond their borders are necessarily pro-authoritarian. An extension of this question is whether some authoritarian governments may at times find it in their interest to support democracy abroad. This article aims to answer this question by focusing …
Turkey as a Model for the Mediterranean? Revealing Discursive Continuities with Europe’s Imperial Past
This article critically engages with the discourse on “Turkey as a model country” for the Muslim world which became popular in Europe and the West after 9/11 and the Iraq War and later during the Arab uprisings. It argues that this discourse was not an ad hoc formulation developed in response to the imminent geopolitical challenges faced by Europe and the West, but that it reflects deeper legacies of colonialism and neo-orientalism produced in Eu…
Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey Since 2002 , by Lyndon C. S. Way
This article reviews Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey Since 2002 978-1-3500-1644-6978-1-3500-1645-3978-1-3500-1646-0
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
Discourse Analysis: Strengths and Shortcomings
Discourse analysis is a much-favoured textual analysis method among constructivist and critically minded International Relations scholars interested in the impact of identity, meaning, and discourse on world politics. The aim of this article is to guide students of Turkish IR in their choice and use of this method. Written by two Turkish IR scholars who have employed discourse analysis in their past and present research, this article also include…
Foreign policy and identity change: Analysing perceptions of Europe among the Turkish public
Foreign policy is a key area through which state officials’ role in the discursive construction of a state’s identity becomes possible and visible. From this viewpoint, Turkey presents an interesting case worthy of analysis due to the significant transformation of its foreign policies in the recent decades. This article first reviews the current literature, which points out that the shift in Turkish foreign policy and the souring of Turkey–Europe…
Legitimizing Europe in Contested Settings: Europe as a Normative Power in Turkey
This article aims to explore whether – and if so, how – the EU is perceived as a normative power (NPE) in Turkey in the context of deteriorating Turkey–EU relations. By adopting the Habermasian understanding that legitimacy is a prerequisite for NPE and through employing a focus group methodology novel to NPE research, the article finds that a certain segment of the Turkish public views the EU as a normative power, suggesting that claims for the …
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey – Retracted
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
The politics of fear: What right-wing populist discourses mean
Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country
This article provides a novel conceptual framework to understand the impact of the European Union on Turkish politics and policies in the aftermath of the opening of accession negotiations in 2005. It argues that the post-2005 developments in Turkey not only attest to lesser and more limited Europeanisation, but also entail a process that is increasingly gaining momentum in the country and which is referred to as 'de-Europeanisation
Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country
This article provides a novel conceptual framework to understand the impact of the European Union on Turkish politics and policies in the aftermath of the opening of accession negotiations in 2005. It argues that the post-2005 developments in Turkey not only attest to lesser and more limited Europeanisation, but also entail a process that is increasingly gaining momentum in the country and which is referred to as 'de-Europeanisation
Lost in Europeanisation: The Western Balkans and Turkey
The article analyses the EU's impact on the rule of law in the Western Balkans and Turkey. It enquires into the reasons behind the patchy record of rule-of-law reforms in Turkey, Croatia and Albania by examining judicial reforms in response to the EU accession requirements. It argues that a credible EU accession perspective and an adequate degree of state capacity are necessary but not sufficient conditions for explaining the fluctuations in the …
De-Europeanisation through Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AKP’s Election Speeches
This article takes issue with the question of whether Turkey has been turning away from Europe in recent years, by adopting a critical constructivist lens to understand how, rather than why, Turkey's presumed distance from the European Union (EU) is taking place. In doing that, it seeks to analyse the ways in which the political–societal transformation of the country as distanced from the EU is enabled by certain discursive practices which in tur…
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
Critical discourse analysis in analysing European Union foreign policy: Prospects and challenges
This article discusses the potential of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for the study of EU foreign policy and argues that CDA can provide a systematic way of studying discourses on EU foreign policy through the refined linguistic and argumentative tools that it offers. The article first outlines the main theoretical premises of CDA and its one particular variant, the discourse-historical approach, and then presents a discussion on its analytic…
No Crisis, No Change: The Third AKP Victory in the June 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey
Amidst debates over a new constitution and increasing tensions over the Kurdish issue, the June 2011 parliamentary elections were considered crucial for the fate of democratic consolidation in Turkey. The article first discusses the background of the general elections, providing an account of the main political developments since the July 2007 general elections. After a discussion of the election campaign, the results of the parliamentary electio…
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers
This article aims to explore how Russia and Turkey contest the EU's actorness in their shared neighbourhoods and beyond. By adopting the theoretical lens that exerting actorness requires justification and by conceptualizing contestation as an inherently relational and discursive process, it utilizes qualitative content analysis to trace the discursive justifications that are employed by Russia and Turkey in delegitimizing the EU in their shared n…
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power
How Erdoğan Rules Through Crisis
What does the enduring rule of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tell us about the resilience of authoritarian populism despite economic and governance crises? This essay argues that a key source of authoritarian resilience lies in the mutually reinforcing interaction of state capture and market capture. The AKP government not only established firm control over state institutions but also reshaped state-market relations in a way that helped…
European security and the accession of Turkey: Identity and foreign policy in the European Commission
Following a poststructuralist theorising of identity in international relations, which argues that identity is relationally and discursively constructed through foreign policy, this article attempts to analyse the way in which the European Commission discursively constructs European identit(ies) in its relations with Turkey around the theme of ‘security’. The study utilises the methodological tools of critical discourse analysis in analysing the …
Authoritarian middle powers and the liberal order: Turkey's contestation of the EU
The conventional expectation that middle powers support the liberal international order (LIO) is now increasingly being questioned. This article seeks to explore why and how emerging authoritarian middle powers contest the LIO through a study of Turkey's contestation of the EU. By conceptualizing contestations of the LIO as claims to global justice, the article examines the justice claims that underlie Turkey's contestation; with regard to discou…
Foreign policy and identity change: Analysing perceptions of Europe among the Turkish public
Foreign policy is a key area through which state officials’ role in the discursive construction of a state’s identity becomes possible and visible. From this viewpoint, Turkey presents an interesting case worthy of analysis due to the significant transformation of its foreign policies in the recent decades. This article first reviews the current literature, which points out that the shift in Turkish foreign policy and the souring of Turkey–Europe…
Legitimizing Europe in Contested Settings: Europe as a Normative Power in Turkey
This article aims to explore whether – and if so, how – the EU is perceived as a normative power (NPE) in Turkey in the context of deteriorating Turkey–EU relations. By adopting the Habermasian understanding that legitimacy is a prerequisite for NPE and through employing a focus group methodology novel to NPE research, the article finds that a certain segment of the Turkish public views the EU as a normative power, suggesting that claims for the …
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: Lineages and contradictions of an idea
Strategic autonomy has become a guiding principle for several states as the international order moves toward multipolarity. Turkey has also attempted to carve out a more autonomous space from its traditional Western allies by building new ties in the non-Western world, ranging from the Russia–China axis to the Middle East and beyond. This paper explores the idea and practice of strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy. We argue that strategic…
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey – Retracted
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy: An Introduction
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: Re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century
In this article, we conceptualize and demonstrate how historical International Relations (IR) can be employed to critically engage with the populist uses of history at present. In this endeavour, we focus on myths as analytical nodal points. We revisit the rich interdisciplinary literature on myths to conceptually connect historical research that unsettles myths with political critiques of myths in terms of their naturalizing effects at present. …
Turkey as a Model for the Mediterranean? Revealing Discursive Continuities with Europe’s Imperial Past
This article critically engages with the discourse on “Turkey as a model country” for the Muslim world which became popular in Europe and the West after 9/11 and the Iraq War and later during the Arab uprisings. It argues that this discourse was not an ad hoc formulation developed in response to the imminent geopolitical challenges faced by Europe and the West, but that it reflects deeper legacies of colonialism and neo-orientalism produced in Eu…
Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: The case of the May 2023 elections in Turkey
A model no more? Debating Turkish influence in the southern neighbourhood
Turkey has often in the past been presented by the West as a model for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to emulate. Drawing on interpretivist theoretical premises which conceptualize an international actor’s normative agency through its external recognition in the target states and by employing frame analysis, we examine the alternative ideas of political governance associated with Turkey by the political elites in Egypt b…
European parliament ‘doing’ Europe: Unravelling the right-wing culturalist discourse on Turkey’s accession to the EU
This article focuses on the discourses of the main centre-right political party group (EPP-ED, EPP) in the European Parliament on Turkey’s accession to the European Union. It utilises the analytical framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis to mainly concentrate on the articulations of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the discussions over Turkish accession in official parliamentary debates and in-depth pers…
International crises and authoritarian resilience: Lessons from Hungary and Turkey
State capacity and populist rule in times of uncertainty: Covid-19 response in South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey
In an age of 'radical uncertainty,' state capacity proves critical for countries to contain 'wicked crises' and improve the resilience of societies.At the same time, authoritarian populism has come to dominate politics in several countries.The impact of populist leadership on state capacity, however, remains an under-researched theme.We explore how populist rule has impeded effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic by weakening state capacity…
Can non-democracies support international democracy? Turkey as a case study
In recent years, there has been a rise of interest in the concept of autocracy promotion, with scholars questioning whether the efforts by authoritarian governments to influence political transitions beyond their borders are necessarily pro-authoritarian. An extension of this question is whether some authoritarian governments may at times find it in their interest to support democracy abroad. This article aims to answer this question by focusing …
Lost in Europeanisation: The Western Balkans and Turkey
The article analyses the EU's impact on the rule of law in the Western Balkans and Turkey. It enquires into the reasons behind the patchy record of rule-of-law reforms in Turkey, Croatia and Albania by examining judicial reforms in response to the EU accession requirements. It argues that a credible EU accession perspective and an adequate degree of state capacity are necessary but not sufficient conditions for explaining the fluctuations in the …
No Crisis, No Change: The Third AKP Victory in the June 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey
Amidst debates over a new constitution and increasing tensions over the Kurdish issue, the June 2011 parliamentary elections were considered crucial for the fate of democratic consolidation in Turkey. The article first discusses the background of the general elections, providing an account of the main political developments since the July 2007 general elections. After a discussion of the election campaign, the results of the parliamentary electio…
European security and the accession of Turkey: Identity and foreign policy in the European Commission
Following a poststructuralist theorising of identity in international relations, which argues that identity is relationally and discursively constructed through foreign policy, this article attempts to analyse the way in which the European Commission discursively constructs European identit(ies) in its relations with Turkey around the theme of ‘security’. The study utilises the methodological tools of critical discourse analysis in analysing the …
Critical discourse analysis in analysing European Union foreign policy: Prospects and challenges
This article discusses the potential of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for the study of EU foreign policy and argues that CDA can provide a systematic way of studying discourses on EU foreign policy through the refined linguistic and argumentative tools that it offers. The article first outlines the main theoretical premises of CDA and its one particular variant, the discourse-historical approach, and then presents a discussion on its analytic…
Post-Yapısalcı Yaklaşımlar ve Uluslararası İlişkilerin Temel Kavramları
Bu makalenin amacı, post-yapısalcı yaklaşımların Uluslararası İlişkilerdeki temel kavramlara bakışını ele alarak, bu çalışmaların Uluslararası İlişkiler disiplinindeki kuramsal çerçevesini sunmaktır. Makalede post-yapısalcı yaklaşımların ontolojik ve epistemolojik temelleri ele alınmakta ve bu bağlamda söylem, bilgi ve güç kavramlarına yapılan vurgu üzerinde durulmaktadır. Ayrıca temel kavramsal çerçevede, post yapısalcı çalışmalar tarafından mod…
Democracy and Human Rights
Turkey and the European Union
"This book by two leading experts provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey's relationship with the European Union, set in its regional and international context. It details the main approaches to this relationship by considering how issues of economics, migration, security, human rights and culture influence events and perspectives. "
European parliament ‘doing’ Europe: Unravelling the right-wing culturalist discourse on Turkey’s accession to the EU
This article focuses on the discourses of the main centre-right political party group (EPP-ED, EPP) in the European Parliament on Turkey’s accession to the European Union. It utilises the analytical framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis to mainly concentrate on the articulations of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the discussions over Turkish accession in official parliamentary debates and in-depth pers…
The politics of fear: What right-wing populist discourses mean
Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country
This article provides a novel conceptual framework to understand the impact of the European Union on Turkish politics and policies in the aftermath of the opening of accession negotiations in 2005. It argues that the post-2005 developments in Turkey not only attest to lesser and more limited Europeanisation, but also entail a process that is increasingly gaining momentum in the country and which is referred to as 'de-Europeanisation
De-Europeanisation through Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AKP’s Election Speeches
This article takes issue with the question of whether Turkey has been turning away from Europe in recent years, by adopting a critical constructivist lens to understand how, rather than why, Turkey's presumed distance from the European Union (EU) is taking place. In doing that, it seeks to analyse the ways in which the political–societal transformation of the country as distanced from the EU is enabled by certain discursive practices which in tur…
Discourse Analysis: Strengths and Shortcomings
Discourse analysis is a much-favoured textual analysis method among constructivist and critically minded International Relations scholars interested in the impact of identity, meaning, and discourse on world politics. The aim of this article is to guide students of Turkish IR in their choice and use of this method. Written by two Turkish IR scholars who have employed discourse analysis in their past and present research, this article also include…
Foreign policy and identity change: Analysing perceptions of Europe among the Turkish public
Foreign policy is a key area through which state officials’ role in the discursive construction of a state’s identity becomes possible and visible. From this viewpoint, Turkey presents an interesting case worthy of analysis due to the significant transformation of its foreign policies in the recent decades. This article first reviews the current literature, which points out that the shift in Turkish foreign policy and the souring of Turkey–Europe…
Legitimizing Europe in Contested Settings: Europe as a Normative Power in Turkey
This article aims to explore whether – and if so, how – the EU is perceived as a normative power (NPE) in Turkey in the context of deteriorating Turkey–EU relations. By adopting the Habermasian understanding that legitimacy is a prerequisite for NPE and through employing a focus group methodology novel to NPE research, the article finds that a certain segment of the Turkish public views the EU as a normative power, suggesting that claims for the …
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey – Retracted
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey Since 2002 , by Lyndon C. S. Way
This article reviews Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey Since 2002 978-1-3500-1644-6978-1-3500-1645-3978-1-3500-1646-0
When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey
This article aims to explore the views of the Turkish elite on the state of polarization in Turkey. By identifying four political frames—namely, harmony, continuity/decline, conspiracy, and conflict—that selected Turkish political and civil society elites use in discussing the phenomenon of polarization in the country through their contributions to a workshop and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article finds that there is a considerable degr…
Can non-democracies support international democracy? Turkey as a case study
In recent years, there has been a rise of interest in the concept of autocracy promotion, with scholars questioning whether the efforts by authoritarian governments to influence political transitions beyond their borders are necessarily pro-authoritarian. An extension of this question is whether some authoritarian governments may at times find it in their interest to support democracy abroad. This article aims to answer this question by focusing …
Turkey as a Model for the Mediterranean? Revealing Discursive Continuities with Europe’s Imperial Past
This article critically engages with the discourse on “Turkey as a model country” for the Muslim world which became popular in Europe and the West after 9/11 and the Iraq War and later during the Arab uprisings. It argues that this discourse was not an ad hoc formulation developed in response to the imminent geopolitical challenges faced by Europe and the West, but that it reflects deeper legacies of colonialism and neo-orientalism produced in Eu…
Constructivist Approaches to EU–Turkey Relations
This chapter provides a critical survey of constructivist approaches to EU–Turkey relations, which place significance on the role of norms, identities, discourse, ideas, and values in the relationship. It outlines the main contours of the constructivist school of thought in International Relations (IR) with a discussion of how the different variants of constructivism can be applied to the study of the case of EU–Turkey relations. It is followed b…
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers
This article aims to explore how Russia and Turkey contest the EU's actorness in their shared neighbourhoods and beyond. By adopting the theoretical lens that exerting actorness requires justification and by conceptualizing contestation as an inherently relational and discursive process, it utilizes qualitative content analysis to trace the discursive justifications that are employed by Russia and Turkey in delegitimizing the EU in their shared n…
A model no more? Debating Turkish influence in the southern neighbourhood
Turkey has often in the past been presented by the West as a model for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to emulate. Drawing on interpretivist theoretical premises which conceptualize an international actor’s normative agency through its external recognition in the target states and by employing frame analysis, we examine the alternative ideas of political governance associated with Turkey by the political elites in Egypt b…
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: Re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century
In this article, we conceptualize and demonstrate how historical International Relations (IR) can be employed to critically engage with the populist uses of history at present. In this endeavour, we focus on myths as analytical nodal points. We revisit the rich interdisciplinary literature on myths to conceptually connect historical research that unsettles myths with political critiques of myths in terms of their naturalizing effects at present. …
Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s
This article scrutinizes the role of women’s rights and women actors in Turkey’s public diplomacy strategy in the 1930s and discusses whether and if so how it managed to change the long-standing European prejudices against Turkey. Accordingly, first, the article discusses the early reforms of the Turkish Republic and their European reception. Then, relying on critical discourse analysis, it examines two prominent cases; namely, Keriman Halis’ vic…
State capacity and populist rule in times of uncertainty: Covid-19 response in South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey
In an age of 'radical uncertainty,' state capacity proves critical for countries to contain 'wicked crises' and improve the resilience of societies.At the same time, authoritarian populism has come to dominate politics in several countries.The impact of populist leadership on state capacity, however, remains an under-researched theme.We explore how populist rule has impeded effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic by weakening state capacity…
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