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The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy

The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy

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General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1438486480
ISBN13: 9781438486482
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2022
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.

Turkey's enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and transformed Turkey from a soft power to a hard power in the tangled geopolitics of the Middle East. Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar argue that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Islamist background played a significant role in the country's decision to embrace the uprisings and the subsequent foreign policy direction the country has pursued. They demonstrate that religious ideology is endogenous to-shaping and in turn being shaped by-Turkey's various engagements in the Middle East. The Nation or the Ummah emphasizes that while Islamist religious ideology does not provide specific policy prescriptions, it does shape the way the ruling elite sees and interprets the context and the structural boundaries they operate within.

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