Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration

Volume: 19 Number: 4 January 1, 2014
  • Murat Yeşiltaş
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Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration

Abstract

This article argues that the increasing emphasis of civilization in Turkish foreign policy discourse fundamentally affected Turkey’s criticism of the current international order. Political elites during the Justice and Development Party era have framed their critiques of international order in the context of the “politics of restoration”; the political discourse seeks to re-construct Turkey’s national, regional and international political discourse and engagement. They have also recontextualized the politics of restoration along the axis of a discourse of the “New Turkey”. In this sense, the “New Turkey” discourse reproduced the civilizational identity part of Turkey’s international order narrative by blending it with an anti-hegemonic “dissident” discourse. Instead of taking civilization as a given, as many studies concerned with the relationship of Turkish foreign policy and civilization have done, this article takes Davutoğlu’s constitutive role of the idea into account and analyzes the framework provided by the term for the politics of restoration of national, regional, and global order while considering civilization as a historical institution formed by the interaction between culture-economics-politics and a “being-knowledge-values” based mentality

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References

  1. Murat Yeşiltaş, “Stratejik Derinlik’in Jeopolitik Tahayyülü”, Türkiye Ortadoğu Araştırmaları Dergisi, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2014), pp. 25-56.
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  3. Murat Yeşiltaş and Ali Balcı, “A Dictionary of Turkish Foreign Policy in the AK Party Era: A Conceptual Map”, SAM Papers, No 7 (May 2013), pp. 1-36.
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January 1, 2014

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Year 2014 Volume: 19 Number: 4

APA
Yeşiltaş, M. (2014). Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration. PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs, 19(4), 43-75. https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS
AMA
1.Yeşiltaş M. Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration. PERCEPTIONS. 2014;19(4):43-75. https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS
Chicago
Yeşiltaş, Murat. 2014. “Turkey’s Quest for a ‘New International Order’: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration”. PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 19 (4): 43-75. https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS.
EndNote
Yeşiltaş M (January 1, 2014) Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration. PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 19 4 43–75.
IEEE
[1]M. Yeşiltaş, “Turkey’s Quest for a ‘New International Order’: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration”, PERCEPTIONS, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 43–75, Jan. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS
ISNAD
Yeşiltaş, Murat. “Turkey’s Quest for a ‘New International Order’: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration”. PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 19/4 (January 1, 2014): 43-75. https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS.
JAMA
1.Yeşiltaş M. Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration. PERCEPTIONS. 2014;19:43–75.
MLA
Yeşiltaş, Murat. “Turkey’s Quest for a ‘New International Order’: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration”. PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 4, Jan. 2014, pp. 43-75, https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS.
Vancouver
1.Murat Yeşiltaş. Turkey’s Quest for a “New International Order”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Politics of Restoration. PERCEPTIONS [Internet]. 2014 Jan. 1;19(4):43-75. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA35PZ44MS