Browsing by Author "Göksel, Oğuzhan"
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Assessing Azerbaijan's Modernization Trajectory In Light of Theories of Modernity
Khalilzada, Javadbay (İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2016)Modernization theories study a country to identify whether a country is developed or not, or to identify the development level of a country. There are three commonly used distinctive features to analyze and measure the ... -
Beyond Countering Iran: A Political Economy of Azerbaijan-Israel Relations
Göksel, Oğuzhan (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)In recent years, Azerbaijan-Israel relations have come to the foreground of politics in the Middle East and Caucasus region. Ties between Baku and Tel Aviv have been directly interlinked with their relations with Iran. The ... -
Defying the System: The Origins of Anti-Westernism in the Non-Western World and the Case of Iran
Göksel, Oğuzhan (2019)Anti-Western sentiment is a common feature of politics in many non-Western societies such as China, Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Iran and various Arab countries. Challenging the scholarly literature that depicts anti-Westernism ... -
Eurocentrism Awakened: The Arab Uprisings And The Search For A "Modern" Middle East
Göksel, Oğuzhan (Springer International Publishing, 2017)The 2011 Arab uprisings were initially hailed by many observers in the Western world as the harbinger of a “modern” Middle East. Finally, it was believed, the hegemony of corrupt autocrats and the prolonged “dark age” of ... -
The Impact Of The Arab Spring On Turkey's Role And Relations In The Middle East
Göksel, Oğuzhan (Peter Lang AG, 2015)The foreign policy of Turkey under the AKP administration has been argued to have diverged from the conventional West-oriented direction of the country, followed with few exceptions since the end of World War II. This ... -
In Search of a Non-Eurocentric Understanding of Modernization: Turkey as a Case of 'Multiple Modernities'
Göksel, Oğuzhan (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)This article uses the Turkish case of modernity to critically examine different understandings of modernization put forward by competing schools of thought, namely the 'classical modernization theory', the 'neo-modernization ... -
Introduction: The Politics Of Power Amidst The Uprisings Of Hope
Göksel, Oğuzhan (Springer International Publishing, 2017)Since the Arab Uprisings of 2011, popularly known as the “Arab Spring,” the Middle East—with its rapidly changing political setting—has been a key center of attention for media and academia. It has become commonplace to ... -
The Non-Western Modernization Perspective: The Case Of Israel
Sarıaydın, Erdem (İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2018)'Non-Western modernity perspective' offers an alternative approach to understand modernity of non-Western societies, challenging the Eurocentric 'convergence thesis' which argues that modernization trajectory of societies ... -
Political Discourse And Instrumentalization: İdealized Female Images Of Kemalism And İslamism
Aydın, Zeynep (İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2019)This thesis aims to evaluate the post-1980 hegemonic strugglewithin Turkey in the context of Islamist-Kemalist polarization through examining the idealized female images of these two groups. Women has been instrumentalized ... -
Questioning The ‘Immortal State’: The Gezi Protests And The Short-Lived Human Security Moment In Turkey
Göksel, Oğuzhan; Tekdemir, O. (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)This article has three interrelated objectives: firstly, it challenges monolithic depictions of the 2013 Gezi protests and conceptualizes the so-called ‘Spirit of Gezi’ as a highly influential—albeit temporary— power in ... -
Reevaluating The Sources And Fragility Of Turkey's Soft Power After The Arab Uprisings
Guida, Michelangelo; Göksel, Oğuzhan (Springer International Publishing, 2017)The rapid economic growth and prodemocratic political reforms of the 2000s had propelled Turkey to the position of a regional power as it was ranked 25th in the globe according to the 2010 Soft Power Index, rising to 20th ... -
Turkey's Relations With The Middle East: Political Encounters After The Arab Spring
Işıksal H.; Göksel, Oğuzhan (Springer International Publishing, 2017)This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, the Syria Crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in ...
