Conceptually the aims of this thesis are to show the salient features of the
political reproduction of states as a necessity for their survival as they
continually face a double-security dilemma in the neoliberal era. Empirically
this thesis examines Turkey’s ruling party from 2002 to 2015. The Justice
and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) maintained
authority by mitigating the polities and actors that posed vertical and
horizontal competition to their power (the double-security dilemma of
domestic and international threats faced by state rulers).
To outcompete and absorb its rivals, the AKP maintained a post-Islamist
alliance-building model of political reproduction through a globalized Islamic
neoliberal authority pattern until 2011. This became popularized as the
‘Turkish Model’, a model of political reproduction framed as suitable for other
Muslim-majority states. The findings from data analysis show that to maintain
the constitutive sovereignty of the Turkish state, the AKP built a post-Islamist
hegemony.
Furthermore, this thesis explores how the AKP horizontally built a pluralist
vision of neo-ottomanism enabling their navigation of the international
political system. Their ‘zero-problems’ foreign policy was the cornerstone of
building regional liberal peace. This policy was the basis of the AKP’s
maintenance of functional sovereignty until the ‘Arab Spring’. Yet, the new
double-security dilemma that emerged through the ‘Arab Spring’ not only
threatened the existence of post-Islamism within Turkey, but the existence of
the ‘Turkish Model’ itself. The AKP then moved towards a fortifying pattern of
authority to shield both themselves and the Republic from emergent threats / Marie Curie European Commission Sustainable Peacebuilding Project through Sabancı University
and the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/16907 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Araj, Victoria D. |
| Contributors | Shahi, Afshin, Morvaridi, Behrooz |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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