Sabancı Üniversitesi
Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi

Uyuşmazlık Analizi ve Çözümü Semineri
 

Cenk Saraçoğlu

(Başkent Üniversitesi)

AKP'S FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE AND THE REDEFINITION OF "NATION" IN TURKISH POLITICS

13 Kasım 2013, Çarşamba

10:15-12:00 / SSBF 2034

AKP’s ideological orientation possesses definitive features of nationalism: it envisions “nation” as a homogenous political entity with the members sharing some common characteristics; it presumes that the members of this nation share a common past; and it assumes a set of common national interests that concerns and cuts across every member of the nation. However, AKP also represents, in some respects, a historically specific form of nationalism in Turkish political history, as it formulates and constructs the conceptions of “nation”, “national history” and “national interests” in a distinctive manner. In this respect AKP can also be seen as a party that forges an ideological struggle aiming to dispossess the notion of nation from Kemalist nationalism and define it in a different way that suits to its own political project.

Not: Seminer dili İngilizce'dir.