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61. BOOK REVIEWS

Author

Livanios, Dimitris, primary, Bastian, Jens, additional, Öktem, Kerem, additional, Grigoriadis, Ioannis N., additional, and Drossoulakis, Spiros G., additional

Published
2008
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62. Strategic Shallows: The End of AKP Power and the Fragmentation of Turkey's Foreign Policy.

Author

Öktem, Kerem

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL relations
Abstract

The paper reflects Turkey's foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) from 2002 to 2015, a period bracketed by the rise and fall of AKP power. Four phases mark the evolution of this policy stretching from a promising start with constructive modes of global engagement in the early 2000s to overreach, isolation and the fragmentation of foreign policy today. Following the "liberal pragmatism" of the first seven years from 2002 to 2009, there is a shift to the ideologically inspired foreign policy of Islamist academic, foreign policy advisor and finally Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. His more than a half-decade in shaping Turkey's relations with the world and particularly in the Middle East is further distinguished into a 'pan-Islamist' phase of relative success and a 'sectarian' phase of demise. They both end with Turkey's loss of reputation in the world, relative isolation in its region and the failure of its pan-Islamist policy in the Maghreb and the Levant. This relative isolation, together with the fragmentation of foreign policy into its constituent components is not sustainable in the medium term, but it may create conditions for a reconsideration of Turkey's place in the world. The emergence of a humbler foreign policy may therefore become a possibility. Before such a return to realism, however, fragmentation, short-sightedness and incapability may lead to catastrophic convulsions in Turkey's relations with its eastern neighbours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015

64. The Ottoman Cataclysm: Its Beginnings.

Author

Öktem, Kerem

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL relations, *TURKISH national character, *PROPAGANDA, *GREEKS, *HISTORY, *TWENTIETH century, *CONFERENCES & conventions, TURKISH politics & government, BALKAN Wars, 1912-1913
Abstract

The article offers a report from an October 17-19, 2013 conference in Basel, Switzerland on the political history of the Ottoman Empire. Topics of presentations given included the formation of Turkish national identity in the early 20th century, the impact of Turkish propaganda during the Balkan War, and the displacement of Greeks from Turkey preceding World War I.

Published
2013

65. A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of the Parliamentary Left in the Indian States of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura.

Author

Gabriel Öktem, Kerem

Subjects
*COMPARATIVE studies, *POLITICAL parties
Abstract

This article compares the fortunes of the government coalitions under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. The pattern of development and the success of the coalitions differ. In Kerala, the Left has lost every other election, whereas in West Bengal and Tripura, it has won many consecutive elections. West Bengal has seen stagnation in terms of human development, whereas Kerala and Tripura turned—to different degrees—into model states for human development. It is argued that the reasons for these different paths are to be found in the different strategies followed by the regional party units. Developmental success has been delivered through a mobilisation-based approach which has been followed inKerala and Tripura, but given up in West Bengal. This study explores thethree cases and elaborates on the reasons for the choice of strategies in the three states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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