Discursive change in Turkish strategic culture: Changing narratives, roles and values
Başlık çevirisi mevcut değil.
- Tez No: 401160
- Danışmanlar: PROF. CHRISTOPH MEYER
- Tez Türü: Doktora
- Konular: Uluslararası İlişkiler, International Relations
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkish foreign policy, strategic culture, narrative analysis, discursive change, master narratives, counter-narratives
- Yıl: 2013
- Dil: İngilizce
- Üniversite: King's College London
- Enstitü: Yurtdışı Enstitü
- Ana Bilim Dalı: Belirtilmemiş.
- Bilim Dalı: Belirtilmemiş.
- Sayfa Sayısı: 306
Özet
Özet yok.
Özet (Çeviri)
This thesis is devoted to analysing change in Turkish strategic culture, which is conceptualized as change in narratives. In the mainstream literature it has been customary to provide explanations about the change in Turkish foreign policy by applying existing theories which focus on the ideological differences between Kemalism, Islamism and Liberalism or the implications of democratization and globalization for Turkish society, economy and politics. This thesis proposes a different framework based on the discursive practices of the Turkish foreign policy elite in the form of narratives. The main research question is: What sorts of narratives regarding national defence and security have been produced by the AKP elite to challenge the dominant national security state narratives? It is the overarching argument in this thesis that within the emerging Turkish strategic culture the Ottoman past is neither seen as a distant past nor a temporal other; Turkey's geography and neighbourhood is neither a liability nor a spatial other; and concepts and values such as soft power and the promotion of democratic values is no longer considered as naïve nor alien by the Turkish state elite. This thesis suggests that three contested narratives can be found within Turkish strategic culture. Among these narratives, the thesis identifies the emergence of two new narratives which challenge a hitherto dominant master narrative, i.e. the national security state master narrative. These two counter-narratives are i) Turkey as a“great country”that is able to address foreign policy issues with a renewed self-esteem that stems from the nostalgic utilization of its historical and cultural assets; and ii) Turkey as an“internationally active player”that aspires to contribute to the international system by playing a new international role and by aligning itself with universal norms and values. By extending the analysis of Turkish strategic culture to the field of narratives and narrative analysis this study demonstrates that Turkish strategic culture is no longer a strategic culture of a national security state or a flank state or a middle power, it is rather constructed within the narratives of the Turkish state elite, which is primarily built upon the overarching narratives of great country and internationally active player. Contrary to the ideology-centred explanations and paradigm shift arguments about the change in Turkish foreign policy, the approach suggested in this thesis provides rather complex, yet arguably more nuanced and comprehensive explanation than the ones on offer in the literature. Lastly, by taking master narratives and counter narratives as the units of analysis to understand the cultural change, this thesis also contributes to the literature on strategic culture by illustrating the role of agency and their practices of challenging dominant narratives by producing counter-narratives.
Benzer Tezler
- Dipsiz doğa: Mimarlığın zemin hayalleri
Unfathomed natures: The hallucinated grounds in architecture
MELİS DENİZ ÖZBEK
Yüksek Lisans
Türkçe
2021
Mimarlıkİstanbul Teknik ÜniversitesiMimarlık Ana Bilim Dalı
DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ NİZAM ONUR SÖNMEZ
- Kıyı, kültür, özne: Kabak Koyu'ndan fragmanlar
Shoreline, culture, subject: Fragments from Kabak Bay
HÜSEYİN FURKAN BALCI
- Alternatif bir üretim biçimi olarak kentsel tasarım proje yarışma süreçlerinin değerlendirmesi
The evaluation of urban design project competition process as an alternative production conformation
SERAP KETBOĞA
Yüksek Lisans
Türkçe
2015
Şehircilik ve Bölge Planlamaİstanbul Teknik ÜniversitesiKentsel Tasarım Ana Bilim Dalı
DOÇ. DR. HATİCE AYATAÇ
- Stoudios Manastır Kompleksi – Ioannes Prodromos Kilisesi (İmrahor İlyas Bey Camii – İmrahor Anıtı) koruma projesi ve önerileri
Conservation proposals for the ioannes prodromos church of the stoudios monastery (İmrahor İlyas Bey Mosque – İmrahor Monument)
ESRA KUDDE
Doktora
Türkçe
2015
Mimarlıkİstanbul Teknik ÜniversitesiMimarlık Ana Bilim Dalı
PROF. DR. AYŞE ZEYNEP AHUNBAY
- Digital diplomatic evolution and transformation during twenty-first century: Digital foreign policy – European Union case
Yirmi birinci yüzyılda dijital diplomatik evrim ve dönüşüm: dijital dış politika – Avrupa Birliği örneği
MOHAMED EL MEKI GHAZOUANE
Yüksek Lisans
İngilizce
2022
Uluslararası İlişkilerİstanbul Aydın ÜniversitesiSiyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Ana Bilim Dalı
Assist. Assoc. prof. Dr. FİLİZ KATMAN