CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Demirtas Bagdonas, Ozlem |
|---|---|
| Title | A POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO IDEOLOGY AND FOREIGN POLICY: KEMALISM IN THE TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE |
| Summary | This dissertation studies the relationship between ideology and foreign policy and examines the role of the ideology of Kemalism in the Turkish foreign policy discourse. The study provides an alternative conceptualization for ideology and presents a discursive framework to analyze ideology and foreign policy. It focuses on the question of how Kemalism has been used as a reference to legitimize Turkey’s two so-called national causes, mainly the Cyprus policy and the Western/European orientation. The analysis examines how these policies were linked to the elements of Kemalism during three periods, i.e. 1960-1979, 1980-1989, and 1997-2007; how these policies were reconciled and juxtaposed against each other in the official discourse; and how Kemalism has been reconstituted by this process in return. |
| Supervisor | Lindstrom, Nicole Renee; Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/iphdeo01.pdf |
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