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Introduction: Why Critical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis?
No full textThis volume titled Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy has both theoretical and empirical ambitions. First, by bringing together different authors and their research, the volume asks overall whether we can study foreign policy-making in a meaningful academic way by using critical constructivist, discursive, post-colonial, post-structuralist, and gender approaches. Secondly, each chapter analyses certain actors and events by developing an empirically informed research agenda. With these efforts, the volume investigates what foreign policy means and addresses particular cases while asking how we can broaden such a critical research agenda to study foreign policy in general. The authors agree that we can study actors by looking into their internal and external worlds, which condition them and are also conditioned by them. The authors in this volume assume that actors are products of their complex environments. Chapters accordingly shed light on the social-cultural—political-economic context, power relations, boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, by inspecting identity constructions and political articulations. In chapters, discourses on new and old geographies, borders, emerging security and insecurities (usually insecurities), and the confirming or contesting of orders embedded in power relations and exterior structures are investigated in acritical manner. Methodologically, this volume asks important empirical questions, such as what tools are available for researchers to understand the complex social realities and identities of actors and how we can utilise them in meaningful ways. In this process, the authors investigate several creative ways to make more sense of their research topics and subjects. Particularly in studying a subject that has not always been stable and that has multiple identities and belongings, the authors employ diverse methods while maintaining a spirit of continuous curiosity and academic exploration
Conclusions Drawn from Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy
No full textAcknowledging the necessity of making critical analyses and research in foreign policy, the authors who contributed to this volume titled Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy have all attempted to leave their trace by asking timely questions to understand the ruptures, insecurities, temporalities, and identity crises in Turkey’s foreign policy. In this way, this book not only examines a number of selected and significant issues in Turkey’s contemporary foreign policy but also elaborates on the ideas, discourses, actors, processes, and structures in foreign policy-making and the temporal and inconsistent character of the foreign policy ecosystem. Showing the multi-layered, split, and complicated character of the social entity called “state”, this volume understands foreign policy not as an interest and result oriented pre-determined endeavour but as a social terrain where discourses, power hierarchies, transforming identities, norms, representations, and negotiations take place. In this way, this volume does not only contribute to the critical analyses of Turkey’s foreign policy and but also to the Foreign Policy Analysis as an academic field
International Interventions and Turkish Foreign Policy Discourses Regarding Libya and Syria
No full textIn her chapter, Birsen Erdoğan analyses Turkish elites’ discourses regarding the situations in Libya in 2011 and in Syria after 2011. Utilising tools provided by post-structuralist discourse theory and the Essex School, she argues that the political elite’s interpretation of changes and events in the region is constituted by and constitutes their perceptions of Self and Other. She agrees that political subjects interpret changes (or crisis) in their social environment as threats (dislocation) or as opportunities. Discourses of crisis perceived as threat usually require policies aimed at more securitisation and even militarisation. They re-enforce the sense of nation, create enemies, and reconstitute borders. However, these changes can also be positive in elite`s interpretations. In such situations of crisis perceived as opportunity, the elite seeks possibilities to expand its influence and the sense of “us”. Thus, how a crisis is articulated may tell us how the elite will respond to it: either with more nationalist and aggressive policies or with welcoming discourses. In short, support for military interventions usually depends on the articulation of the situation by the political elite
Critical readings of turkey's foreign policy
No full textThis book covers selected topics on contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy to understand and critically analyze the ideas, discourses, actors, processes and structures in the foreign policymaking. It provides the readers with a compilation of chapters on the critical analysis of Turkey’s changing positionality and foreign policy identity. In doing so, it draws on the tools and perspectives offered by the critical theories and approaches in International Relations and relevant disciplines. Most of the chapters included in this project deal with the dramatic metamorphoses that took place in Turkish Foreign Policy during the period when the Justice and Development Party ruled and their ongoing consequences. <br/
Critical readings of turkey's foreign policy
No full textThis book covers selected topics on contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy to understand and critically analyze the ideas, discourses, actors, processes and structures in the foreign policymaking. It provides the readers with a compilation of chapters on the critical analysis of Turkey’s changing positionality and foreign policy identity. In doing so, it draws on the tools and perspectives offered by the critical theories and approaches in International Relations and relevant disciplines. Most of the chapters included in this project deal with the dramatic metamorphoses that took place in Turkish Foreign Policy during the period when the Justice and Development Party ruled and their ongoing consequences. <br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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