Turkey between Nationalism and
Globalization
Turkish society has been undergoing institutional and ideological changes that have affected its social, cultural and political practices. This book examines these contemporary tensions, which have led to a reappraisal of Turkey as a nation and of Turkish nationalism, as the country tries to situate itself as a regional and global power.
Analysing the internal and external dynamics of Turkey, this book considers how the understanding of the nation and nationalism has changed since the creation of the Republic of Turkey, and how it has now become central to Turkey's desire to become a global power. Despite ongoing negotiations about entry into the EU, an ambition for Turkey to be a regional power feeds nationalist feeling as well as discursive and cultural changes. Presenting interdisciplinary perspectives from experts in history, sociology, political sciences and economics, the contributors offer new perspectives on contemporary Turkey.
Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization will be of interest to students and scholars of Turkish studies; globalization studies; nationalism studies; European studies; Middle Eastern and Mediterranean studies; international relations; political science; and sociology.
Riva Kastoryano is a research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), at CERI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales et Sciences Po) and Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France.
Routledge series on global order studies
Edited by David Armstrong
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Karoline Postel-Vinay
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This new series focuses on the major global issues that have surfaced in recent years, issues that will pose significant and complex challenges to global governance in the next few decades. The books will explore challenges to the current global order, and relate to these themes:
The Challenge to Western Dominance
The Challenge to International Governance
Religion, Nationalism and Extremism
Sustainable Growth
Global Justice and the Poorest Countries
The Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Future World Order
1 Redefining Regional Power in International Relations
Indian and South African perspectives
Miriam Prys
2 Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization
Riva Kastoryano
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Turkey between nationalism and globalization / edited by Riva
Kastoryano. First edition.
pages cm. (Routledge series on global order studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. NationalismTurkey. 2. TurkeyForeign relations1980
3. TurkeyPolitics and government1980I. Kastoryano, Riva,
editor of compilation.
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Contributors
Zeynep Atalay completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at Maryland University in the US. Her dissertation is entitled Global Islam: Challenging Western Models of Global Civil Society. In collaboration with George Ritzer, she has edited Reading Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Her articles The blindspot of global civil society: religious NGO networks in the Muslim world. and From the neighborhood to umma: global networks of Muslim civil society in Turkey will be published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. She has also written numerous articles for the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society and the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.
Tanl Bora was born in Ankara in 1963. He graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University in 1984. He worked as a journalist for the weekly journal Yeni Gndem (New Agenda) from 1984 to 1988. He has been the editor of non-fiction books at the letiim Publishing House since 1988, and the editor-in-chief of the tri-monthly social-science journal Toplum ve Bilim (Society and Science) since 1993. He is also the editor of the nine-volume encyclopedic book Modern Trkiye' de Siyas Dnce (Political Thought in Modern Turkey), to which more than 300 writers contribute. He has written articles in the monthly socialist culture journal Birikim since 1989. His main area of interest is political thought in Turkey, especially rightist ideology and nationalism. For the last 11 years, he has given graduate lectures at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, on these subjects.
Haldun Glalp is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Yildiz University in Istanbul. He has been a Visiting Professor at many prestigious universities (for example, the University of California, Los Angeles; the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; the University of Washington in Seattle; and St Antony's College, Oxford, etc.). He is the author of a large number of individual and edited books on issues related to citizenship, secularism and ethnic conflict in both Turkish and English, for example Avrupa Birligi, Demokrasi ve Laiklik (The European Union, Democracy and Secularism), with Cengiz Cagla (Istanbul: Metis Yaynlar, 2010), Citizenshipand Ethnic Conflict: Challenging the Nation State (Oxford: Routledge, 2006). Haldun Glalp is also the author of numerous articles in journals such as Contemporary Sociology, Cultural Dynamics, European Public Law and Middle Eastern Studies.
Seyfettin Grsel is a professor at Baheehir University in Istanbul. After completing his studies at Grenoble University in France (in the School of Economics and the Political Sciences Institute) in 1974, he received his MA (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) from the Department of Economics at Paris Nanterre University. He joined Istanbul University's School of Economics, and then Galatasaray University's Department of Economics between 1994 and 2007. He has been the Chair of the Department of Economics and the Vice-President of Galatasaray University. In 2007, he was nominated as the director of the Economic and Social Research Center at Baheehir University. Professor Grsel has written books and articles about Ottoman and republican era economic history, economic policies and political economy, as well as labor economics, in both Turkish and other languages.