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A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign PolicyImperial Transnationalism: Turkish Middle East-Oriented Foreign Policy Expert Apparatus (1998–2011)

A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy: Imperial Transnationalism: Turkish Middle... [This chapter deals with the transnational production of knowledge by one section of Turkey’s intellectual elite, mainly scholars and journalists, who advocated the country’s active involvement in the Middle East. It shows that by the end of the 2000s this intellectual support had generated policy-related knowledge, and a full-fledged expertise on Middle Eastern policy, together with recently founded think tanks and a pro-government epistemic community. It discusses their expertise, which was based on education and cultural capital mostly accumulated by individual actors in western academic institutions. This chapter argues that a growing demand for empirical knowledge on the region, in line with Turkey’s foreign policy aims, increased the relevance of these specialists. However, they were in fact reliant on their western-shaped knowledge, unable to offer a more locally shaped look at the Middle East.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign PolicyImperial Transnationalism: Turkish Middle East-Oriented Foreign Policy Expert Apparatus (1998–2011)

Part of the Middle East Today Book Series
Editors: Papuççular, Hazal; Kuru, Deniz
Le Moulec, Jean-Baptiste
A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy — May 26, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-42896-9
Pages
69 –93
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42897-6_4
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[This chapter deals with the transnational production of knowledge by one section of Turkey’s intellectual elite, mainly scholars and journalists, who advocated the country’s active involvement in the Middle East. It shows that by the end of the 2000s this intellectual support had generated policy-related knowledge, and a full-fledged expertise on Middle Eastern policy, together with recently founded think tanks and a pro-government epistemic community. It discusses their expertise, which was based on education and cultural capital mostly accumulated by individual actors in western academic institutions. This chapter argues that a growing demand for empirical knowledge on the region, in line with Turkey’s foreign policy aims, increased the relevance of these specialists. However, they were in fact reliant on their western-shaped knowledge, unable to offer a more locally shaped look at the Middle East.]

Published: May 26, 2020

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