Hüsrev Tabak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hüsrev Tabak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hüsrev |
| FAMILY NAME | Tabak |
| SIGNATURE | TABAK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0693-8476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Turkish civil society, normative power Europe, and appeals to restore the EU’s transformative power
This paper examines the evolving role of civil society in sustaining the European Union’s (EU) normative influence amid the Union’s diminishing capacity to drive change in the European periphery, with a particular focus on Türkiye. As the EU’s transformative agendas wane and its credibility as a normative power erodes, EU-engaged civil society actors in peripheral states seek alternative strategies to uphold the Union as a normative anchor. Drawi…
In psyche, we unite
This paper interrogates the diffusionist foundations of norm research in international relations (IR), arguing that both mainstream and critical approaches remain constrained by a shared dualist assumption separating the West from the non-West. While mainstream scholarship advances a linear ‘West-to-rest’ model of norm diffusion, critical approaches often reverse rather than transcend this logic by privileging ‘rest-to-West’ dynamics, thereby rep…
Türkiye’s multi-stakeholder engagement in global governance
This research explores Türkiye’s governmental and nongovernmental engagements with ECOSOC. Addressing the notable lack of scholarly attention to Türkiye’s multi-stakeholder participation in normative governance within the UN, the study contributes to understanding Turkish governmental and civil society engagement in ECOSOC as a global governance forum for norm-making and deliberation on development goals. Employing a grounded research design, the…
Turkish NGOs in global governance – insights from Ecosoc engagements
This article offers the first empirical analysis of Turkish NGOs’ engagement with global governance through the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Addressing a significant gap in the literature, it examines Turkish NGOs’ access to and participation in ECOSOC—an underexplored area despite Turkey’s expanding role within the UN system. The analysis draws on previously unexamined UN archival materials from ECOSOC meetings between 1995 and 2024 …
Anti-gender Normativity and Advocacy in Turkey – Making a Case for Practice Diffusion
Resilient Europhilism
Turkey’s proactive contestation of EU sanctions against Russia
This article offers a critical discussion of third-country access to normative contestation within the European normative order. It empirically examines the external contestation of the EU’s recent sanctions policy directed towards Russia by Turkey, a candidate state, and elaborates on the context in which Turkey contested and renegotiated the normative validity of the EU’s sanction policy. The study empirically suggests that Turkey, while behavi…
Intra-conservative Bloc Contestations on Gender Equality in Turkey - Norm Reception in Fragmented Normative Orders
This research problematizes the contested nature of the global norm diffusion by focusing on intra-group rivalries and fragmentations shaping local responses (often reactionary and resistant) to global norms. Such an examination is important primarily to account for what leads to shifts in the local reception of norms over time. This study empirically explores local fragmentation , rivalry and change in response nexus in the example of the recept…
Fragmented local normative orders, unresolved localizations, and the contesting of gender equality norms in Turkey
This paper examines the localization process of the global gender equality norm in Turkey and argues that the normative contestations on this concern, among rival political blocs and activist groups, have not allowed any resolution. Accordingly, the global gender equality norm has undergone state-led secular localization as of the 1990s. In the post-2010 context under AKP rule, however, this process was disrupted by the proponents of the alternat…
Transnational Kemalism—Power, Hegemony, and Dissidence
This review essay examines the historical and present configurations of transnational Kemalism, with a focus on Kemalism's transformation into a counterhegemonic transnational dissidence movement during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey. Accordingly, Kemalism, as the founding ideology of the Turkish state, has historically been the anchor for Turkish transnational politics. Ethnic Turkish ki…
Diffusionism and Beyond in IR Norm Research
This article suggests the relevance of diffusionism in discussing the past, the present, and the future of the International Relations (IR) norm diffusion literature. The paper argues, thus, that IR norm research has reproduced the diffusionist and beyond-diffusionist mechanisms and epistemologies that the anthropological research on culture diffusion has developed, and this has been consequential for the discipline. Accordingly, the diffusionism…
Islam, Nationalism, and Kurdish Ethnopolitics in Turkey
According to official figures, the conflict between the Turkish state and pro-Kurdish insurgents (led by the Kurdish Workers’ Party—Partiya Karkareni Kurdistan, PKK) killed more than 5,000 soldiers
Intra-conservative Bloc Contestations on Gender Equality in Turkey - Norm Reception in Fragmented Normative Orders
This research problematizes the contested nature of the global norm diffusion by focusing on intra-group rivalries and fragmentations shaping local responses (often reactionary and resistant) to global norms. Such an examination is important primarily to account for what leads to shifts in the local reception of norms over time. This study empirically explores local fragmentation , rivalry and change in response nexus in the example of the recept…
Diffusionism and Beyond in IR Norm Research
This article suggests the relevance of diffusionism in discussing the past, the present, and the future of the International Relations (IR) norm diffusion literature. The paper argues, thus, that IR norm research has reproduced the diffusionist and beyond-diffusionist mechanisms and epistemologies that the anthropological research on culture diffusion has developed, and this has been consequential for the discipline. Accordingly, the diffusionism…
Fragmented local normative orders, unresolved localizations, and the contesting of gender equality norms in Turkey
This paper examines the localization process of the global gender equality norm in Turkey and argues that the normative contestations on this concern, among rival political blocs and activist groups, have not allowed any resolution. Accordingly, the global gender equality norm has undergone state-led secular localization as of the 1990s. In the post-2010 context under AKP rule, however, this process was disrupted by the proponents of the alternat…
Islam, Nationalism, and Kurdish Ethnopolitics in Turkey
According to official figures, the conflict between the Turkish state and pro-Kurdish insurgents (led by the Kurdish Workers’ Party—Partiya Karkareni Kurdistan, PKK) killed more than 5,000 soldiers
Resilient Europhilism
Islam, Nationalism, and Kurdish Ethnopolitics in Turkey
According to official figures, the conflict between the Turkish state and pro-Kurdish insurgents (led by the Kurdish Workers’ Party—Partiya Karkareni Kurdistan, PKK) killed more than 5,000 soldiers
Transnational Kemalism—Power, Hegemony, and Dissidence
This review essay examines the historical and present configurations of transnational Kemalism, with a focus on Kemalism's transformation into a counterhegemonic transnational dissidence movement during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey. Accordingly, Kemalism, as the founding ideology of the Turkish state, has historically been the anchor for Turkish transnational politics. Ethnic Turkish ki…
Diffusionism and Beyond in IR Norm Research
This article suggests the relevance of diffusionism in discussing the past, the present, and the future of the International Relations (IR) norm diffusion literature. The paper argues, thus, that IR norm research has reproduced the diffusionist and beyond-diffusionist mechanisms and epistemologies that the anthropological research on culture diffusion has developed, and this has been consequential for the discipline. Accordingly, the diffusionism…
Fragmented local normative orders, unresolved localizations, and the contesting of gender equality norms in Turkey
This paper examines the localization process of the global gender equality norm in Turkey and argues that the normative contestations on this concern, among rival political blocs and activist groups, have not allowed any resolution. Accordingly, the global gender equality norm has undergone state-led secular localization as of the 1990s. In the post-2010 context under AKP rule, however, this process was disrupted by the proponents of the alternat…
Turkey’s proactive contestation of EU sanctions against Russia
This article offers a critical discussion of third-country access to normative contestation within the European normative order. It empirically examines the external contestation of the EU’s recent sanctions policy directed towards Russia by Turkey, a candidate state, and elaborates on the context in which Turkey contested and renegotiated the normative validity of the EU’s sanction policy. The study empirically suggests that Turkey, while behavi…
Intra-conservative Bloc Contestations on Gender Equality in Turkey - Norm Reception in Fragmented Normative Orders
This research problematizes the contested nature of the global norm diffusion by focusing on intra-group rivalries and fragmentations shaping local responses (often reactionary and resistant) to global norms. Such an examination is important primarily to account for what leads to shifts in the local reception of norms over time. This study empirically explores local fragmentation , rivalry and change in response nexus in the example of the recept…
Resilient Europhilism
Turkish civil society, normative power Europe, and appeals to restore the EU’s transformative power
This paper examines the evolving role of civil society in sustaining the European Union’s (EU) normative influence amid the Union’s diminishing capacity to drive change in the European periphery, with a particular focus on Türkiye. As the EU’s transformative agendas wane and its credibility as a normative power erodes, EU-engaged civil society actors in peripheral states seek alternative strategies to uphold the Union as a normative anchor. Drawi…
In psyche, we unite
This paper interrogates the diffusionist foundations of norm research in international relations (IR), arguing that both mainstream and critical approaches remain constrained by a shared dualist assumption separating the West from the non-West. While mainstream scholarship advances a linear ‘West-to-rest’ model of norm diffusion, critical approaches often reverse rather than transcend this logic by privileging ‘rest-to-West’ dynamics, thereby rep…
Türkiye’s multi-stakeholder engagement in global governance
This research explores Türkiye’s governmental and nongovernmental engagements with ECOSOC. Addressing the notable lack of scholarly attention to Türkiye’s multi-stakeholder participation in normative governance within the UN, the study contributes to understanding Turkish governmental and civil society engagement in ECOSOC as a global governance forum for norm-making and deliberation on development goals. Employing a grounded research design, the…
Turkish NGOs in global governance – insights from Ecosoc engagements
This article offers the first empirical analysis of Turkish NGOs’ engagement with global governance through the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Addressing a significant gap in the literature, it examines Turkish NGOs’ access to and participation in ECOSOC—an underexplored area despite Turkey’s expanding role within the UN system. The analysis draws on previously unexamined UN archival materials from ECOSOC meetings between 1995 and 2024 …
Anti-gender Normativity and Advocacy in Turkey – Making a Case for Practice Diffusion
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