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But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism
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This article critically examines the comprehensive predictive failure of Turkish liberal and left-liberal writers who, during the 1990s and early 2000s, articulated confident expectations about the trajectory of globalization, the obsolescence of the nation-state, and the inevitable decline of nationalism. Drawing on a theoretical framework that conceptualizes Globalism as the meaning system of the globalization era, this study analyzes primary source material from prominent Turkish authors including Mehmet Altan, Murat Belge, Tanıl Bora, Taner Akçam, Baskın Oran, Çağlar Keyder, Haldun Gülalp, Hatice Yaşar, and Bülent Peker, alongside translated theoretical contributions published in Turkish venues.
The article demonstrates that these writers operated within the Globalist meaning system, treating globalization as irreversible historical necessity, nation-states as destined for obsolescence, and nationalism as an anachronistic pathology. Their ideas were largely adaptations of the dominant liberal cosmopolitan thought circulating in Western academic and policy circles. Through systematic textual analysis, the article exposes how their core predictions have been contradicted by subsequent developments: the emergence of deglobalization, the resurgence of sovereigntist politics, the persistence of nationalism, and Türkiye's own trajectory away from the liberal-cosmopolitan horizon they anticipated. This represents a total structural failure at the level of historical diagnosis, revealing the limitations of Globalism as an analytical and predictive framework.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Siyaset Bilimi (Diğer), Küreselleşme, Uluslararası İlişkilerde Siyaset
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Nisan 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Şubat 2026
Kabul Tarihi
29 Nisan 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Sayı: 89
APA
Kılıç, S., & Okur, M. A. (2026). But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 89, 281-296. https://doi.org/10.51290/dpusbe.1879126
AMA
1.Kılıç S, Okur MA. But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;(89):281-296. doi:10.51290/dpusbe.1879126
Chicago
Kılıç, Sena, ve Mehmet Akif Okur. 2026. “But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism”. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 89: 281-96. https://doi.org/10.51290/dpusbe.1879126.
EndNote
Kılıç S, Okur MA (01 Nisan 2026) But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 89 281–296.
IEEE
[1]S. Kılıç ve M. A. Okur, “But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism”, Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 89, ss. 281–296, Nis. 2026, doi: 10.51290/dpusbe.1879126.
ISNAD
Kılıç, Sena - Okur, Mehmet Akif. “But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism”. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 89 (01 Nisan 2026): 281-296. https://doi.org/10.51290/dpusbe.1879126.
JAMA
1.Kılıç S, Okur MA. But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;:281–296.
MLA
Kılıç, Sena, ve Mehmet Akif Okur. “But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism”. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 89, Nisan 2026, ss. 281-96, doi:10.51290/dpusbe.1879126.
Vancouver
1.Sena Kılıç, Mehmet Akif Okur. But History Refused to end: Turkish Writers and the False Promise of Globalism. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Nisan 2026;(89):281-96. doi:10.51290/dpusbe.1879126