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Turkey: Society, Economy and the Political System
(Δ28007) - Professor Spyridon N. Litsas
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Turkey is one of the main regional actors in the Eastern Mediterranean today, with a wide range of political, strategic, and economic activities influencing the region and its people. The course will focus on the rich pre-Turkish history during the 19th century of the Ottoman period, the formation of the Turkish state and the central ideological ingredients of the Kemalist ideology, the domestic political and economic turbulences that penetrated the Turkish framework during the Cold War era, as well as the re-emergence of political Islam at the center of the nation’s political developments. The analysis of Turkish Foreign policy will also be another primary concern of this course, exploring the principal strategic doctrines and the various diplomatic methodologies implemented during the Kemalist era and today.
The course will run under the main Liberal Arts educational philosophy, giving the time and space to every student to participate in the meetings and equally contribute to the evolution of the academic sessions.
Each student has to produce a final essay of 6.000 words (excluding footnotes, references, and bibliography) at the end of the course from a list of titles that will be given in due course.
1st meeting: Introduction to the main goals of the course
2nd meeting: The Origins of the Ottoman Rule
3rd meeting: The emergence of the Ottoman Empire and its strategic and political evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FdWwYFE5H4
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/ottoman-empire
http://umich.edu/~turkish/links/ottemp_brhist.html
Discussion topics: A) How successful do you consider the Millet System? B) How significant was the rise of nationalism for the demise of the Empire? C) Various analysts claim that the most critical disadvantage for the Ottoman polity was the osmosis between Islam and Modernity. What is your position?
4th meeting: Young Turks and the end of the Ottoman era
https://ojs.lib.uom.gr/index.php/BalkanStudies/article/viewFile/1518/1540
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16352745
Discussion Topics: A) What were the main reasons the Young Turks came into power? B) What was the role of the Young Turks in the Armenian and Greek genocide of the beginning of the 20th century? C) A violent movement of the Orient or a genuine attempt to modernize the Ottoman state?
5th meeting: Kemalist Ideology: The foundations of modern Turkey
https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-europe-en-formation-2013-1-page-143.htm#
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364684
Discussion Topics: A) To What extent did the demise of the Ottoman Empire assist Kemalism in coming in front of the newly born Turkish political scene? B) What were the main attributes of the Kemalist ideological foundations in forging a Turkish national identity? C) How do you assess the six arrows of the Kemalist ideology in accordance with the political conditions in the mid-war European political system?
6th meeting: Turkish society under Kemalism
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/25-turkey-reynolds.pdf
https://www.iss.europa.eu/content/ideology-and-ongoing-crisis-turkey
Discussion Topics: A) How do you assess the appeal of Kemalism in the Turkish masses? B) What is the connection between the Army and the Kemalist bureaucracy? C) Do you consider Kemalism a modernizing or a conservative ideology?
7th meeting: Turkish Foreign Policy during the Kemalist era
https://besacenter.org/madeleine-feher-annual-european-scholar-series/turkish-foreign-policy/
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1612/MR1612.pref.pdf
Discussion Topics: A) What were the main goals of the Kemalist foreign policy? B) Turkey and the Cold War. A Western ally or a Western associate? C) What was the Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East? D) What was the Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia?
8th meeting: Turkish-Greek Relations during the Kemalist Era
http://www.hgm-wien.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/03_jb00_25.pdf
Discussion Topics: A) What are the roots of the Greek–Turkish tension in the Aegean Sea? B) What were the main repercussions in the Greek-Turkish relations by the Imia Crisis C) Evaluate the so-called Security Dilemma in the Aegean Sea
9th meeting: The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG726.pdf
https://mepc.org/journal/turkish-democracy-and-political-islam
Discussion Topics: A) Was the rise of Political Islam an issue of social deprivation in Kemalist Turkey? B) Explore the routes of Political Islam throughout the Turkish history of the 20th century C) What were the leading representatives of Political Islam before AKP?
10th meeting: AKP’s rise in power
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/Torn-Country_Ch2.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/research/turkey-the-new-model/
Discussion Topics: A) What was the ‘new ethos’ that AKP represented in Turkish politics? B) How do you define the early ideological identity of AKP? C) Why do you consider the Western world welcomed AKP so warmly back in the early days?
11th meeting: The trend of Neo-ottomanism in Turkey’s soft power
http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%202/3.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0308_turkey_taspinar.pdf
Discussion Topics: A) What are the main pillars of neo-ottoman soft power? B) What are the main goals of neo-ottoman soft power? C) Assess the success/failure of the neo-ottoman soft power.
12th meeting: Erdoganism as a Post-Kemalist political reality?
Discussion Topics: A) Define Erdoganism as a new ideological norm in 21st-century Turkey B) Asses the influence of Erdoganism in Turkey today. C) Is Erdoganism here to stay?
13th meeting: General Review
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Παρασκευή 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2024
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