Strategic Depth or Hegemonic Depth? A Critical Realist Analysis of Turkey's Position in the World System

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ID4444342
AutoresFaruk Yalvaç (0000-0002-7788-8672, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume26
Fascículo2
Páginas165-180
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117811428331
OpenAlexW2019157172
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

This paper is an attempt to provide a critical realist analysis of the concept of 'strategic depth' recently being used in analysing Turkish foreign policy. The article provides a criticism of the realist geopolitical thinking on which the concept of strategic depth is based using the insights of the critical realist philosophy of science. It takes the concept of ontological depth from critical realism and extends it to Gramsci's analysis and develops the concept of hegemonic depth. Underlying the concept of hegemonic depth is the idea that geopolitical relations should be thought of in connection with the social structures that give rise to them. The article is intended as a contribution to a historical materialist analysis of Turkish foreign policy where a state-centric positivism dominates, as well as an attempt to develop a social theory of foreign policy based on critical realism

Critical realism (philosophy of perception) · Criticism · Epistemology · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · Hegemony · International relations · International relations theory · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Realism · Social science · Sociology · Turkish · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society