Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey

Ottomanism, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-35414-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing the state in the historical context of the international system and second by unpacking the state through analysis of intra-elite competition in relation to the counter-discourses by minority groups within the context of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

What explains the persistence and change in state policies toward minorities and nationhood? Under what conditions do states change their policies toward minorities? Why do the state elites reconsider the state-minority relations and change government policies toward nationhood? Adopting a comparative-historical analysis, the book unpacks these research questions and builds a theoretical framework by looking at three paradigmatic policy changes: Ottomanism in the mid-19th century, Turkish nationalism in the early 1920s, and multiculturalism in Turkey in the early 2000s. While the book reveals the role of international context, intrastate elite competition, and non-state actors in such policy changes, it argues that state elites adopt either exclusionary or inclusionary policies based on the idea of "survival of the state."

The book is primarily an important contribution to studies in ethnicity and nationalism. It is also an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Comparative Politics, Middle East Studies, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Serhun

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The State-Minority relations and Nationhood: The Question of Inclusion/ Exclusion 2. Patterns of Legal and Ethnic Inclusion/ Exclusion: A Conceptual Framework of Nationhood 3. Imperial Ottoman into a Republican Turk: A Brief History of Transition 4. Anatomy of a Nationhood: The Essentials of Post-Ottoman Turkishness 5. New World Order, Weak State, and the Emergence of Ottomanism and Ottoman Homeland (Vatan) 6. Post World War I Order, Nationalist Elites and the making of Monolithic Turkishness 7. The Post-Cold War World, Decline of the Kemalists, and Back to the Ottoman Future of Unity in Diversity 8. Conclusion: Ontological (In)Security, the State and Minorities References

Über Autor(innen)

Serhun Al is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. His main research interests include the politics of identity, ethnic conflict, and security studies within the context of Turkish and Kurdish politics. He is the co-editor of a recent book entitled Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests (Palgrave, 2018).