Writing the world into counter-hegemony

Identity, Power, and 'Foreign Policy' in Ethnic Movements

Bibliographic Data

ID4443993
AuthorsAli Balci (0000-0003-4429-9318, Sakarya University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume31
Issue4
Pages466-483
Publication date2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117817723059
OpenAlexW2742022293
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article is an attempt to develop a theoretical framework about how to study dissident ethnic movements' foreign policies. Is it possible to speak about foreign policies of ethnic dissident movements, especially when it is considered that they have no characteristics of modern sovereignty such as territory and recognition? For example, do the Berbers in Morocco, the Catalans in Spain, the Balochs in Iran, and the Kurds in Turkey have a foreign policy? If they do, how do we study their policies toward the outside world? Specifically, focusing on the case of the Kurds in Turkey, this article attempts to provide a theoretical framework for how to study dissident ethnic movements' foreign policy performances. By looking at the effect of the end of the Cold War on the Kurdish nationalists' imagination of the United States, this article interrogates how the change in their imagination played a role in the construction and reconstruction of the post-1980 Kurdish identity in Turkey. It also draws on the work of poststructural and postcolonial Ernesto Laclau, David Campell, and Edward W. Said in order to develop the theoretical framework

Aesthetics · Ethnic group · Foreign policy · Hegemony · Identity (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sovereignty · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Turkey's Politics and Society

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