“If you can’t beat them – join them”

Explaining Milli Görüş movement’s views towards the West

Bibliographic Data

ID21156757
AuthorsUri Rosenberg (University of Potsdam, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume25
Issue2
Pages309-329
Publication date2025-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-3857 • E-ISSN: 1743-9639
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14683857.2023.2259193
OpenAlexW4386846048
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited47

The National Outlook Movement (Millî Görüş), a prominent Turkish-Islamist movement which previously held strong anti-Western views, moderated its views towards the West in the 1990s. With an examination of Millî Görüş documents from 1973 to 1995, this study sheds light on the dynamics of this shift in view and argues that one aspect of this ‘tilt’ towards the West was the geopolitical realities – mainly the collapse of the USSR and the rise of US hegemony. While the current literature on the moderation of other similar Islamist movements around the world throughout the 1990s largely cites internal and national level explanations for moderation and leaves out the geopolitical argument made here, the case of the National Outlook suggests that geopolitical influences can also play an important role and further research is needed on other Islamist movements to understand the effects of the changing geopolitical context

Boom · CITES · Geography · Geopolitics · Hegemony · Moderation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Turkey's Politics and Society

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