Turkey s Challenges and Transformation

This book analyzes the transformation of Turkey's international and domestic politics in the past two decades through a comprehensive domestic- international nexus. It examines the domestic system and the main historical challenges without neglecting their international drivers and looks into main foreign policy areas and issues by accounting for the domestic developments that affected them. Looking inside Turkey's transformation on the basis of an interplay of external and internal factors, through the prism of critical scholars who all agree on the interdependency of national and international politics, it is designed to provide a thoughtful look into the future of Turkey through themes and regions.

Covers the past, present, and the prospects of Turkish politics and society with a focus on current developments Includes a wide range of themes, topics and regions affecting and affected by domestic and foreign policy Looks at the interplay between the domestic and international factors of policy choices of the past 20 years

Auteur

Harun Arikan is Professor of International Relations at Çukurova University, Turkey. He was a research fellow at Oxford University in the UK, and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Maine in the USA.

Zeynep Alemdar is Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Okan University, Turkey, where she currently acts as Dean of the Business and Administration Faculty and directs the Gender Studies Research Center.

Texte du rabat

This book analyzes the transformation of Turkey s international and domestic politics in the past two decades through a comprehensive domestic- international nexus. It examines the domestic system and the main historical challenges without neglecting their international drivers and looks into main foreign policy areas and issues by accounting for the domestic developments that affected them. Looking inside Turkey s transformation on the basis of an interplay of external and internal factors, through the prism of critical scholars who all agree on the interdependency of national and international politics, it is designed to provide a thoughtful look into the future of Turkey through themes and regions.

Contenu

Introduction.- Transformation of Party and Election System in Turkey.- Transformation and challenges in Government System in Turkey: 'The Turkish Type of Presidentializm.- Transformation of Judiciary for a Turkey in Transition: Dynamics and Consequences.- Turkey's Political Economy in International Context.- Transformation of Secularism in Turkey.- Gender Equality in Turkey.- The Changing Dynamics of Protests under Turkey's Authoritarian Transformation: Actors, Repertoires and Strategies of Repression.- (De)Securitization of the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: The Nexus between Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics in the Twenty-First Century.- The Transformation of Migration Governance in Turkey.- Transformation of Turkey's Environmental Policy: A Case of Selective Europeanization?.- Transformation and Challenges in Turkey-EU Relations: A Case of Foreign Policy with Domestic Political Implications.- An Agent-Based Bounded Rationality Analysis Turkey's Relations with Greece.- Turkey-US Relations: From the Catalyst of the Model Country Image to the Reference Point of Defensive Discourses.- Transformation and Challenges in Turkish Foreign Policy: Turkey Russia Relations.- Turkey and the Middle East: The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Power.- Cooperation Amid Transformation: Turkey and International Organizations.