Turkey : : the pendulum between military rule and civilian authoritarianism / / by Fat̜ih Çağatay Cengi̜z.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 170/1
• VerfasserIn: Cengiz, Fatih Çağatay,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 170/1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Updated revision of the author's PhD dissertation.

In Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism , Fatih Çağatay Cengiz explains Turkey's trajectory of military and civilian authoritarianism while offering an alternative framework for understanding the Kemalist state and state-society relations. This book clearly c...

Table of Contents

• List of Figures, Box and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Conceptualisation of Kemalism, Bonapartism, and Procedural Democracy
• 1 The Kemalist State
• 1 The Historical Legacy
• 2 The 1923 İzmir Economic Congress and National Developmentalism
• 3 The Statist and Ultra-nationalist Phase in the Kemalist Capitalist State
• 4 Industrial Upgrading (1960-1980)
• 5 Failed Democratic Transition under the Democrat Party (1950-1960)
• 6 The 1960 Coup and 1971 Memorandum in the Context of the Cold War
• 7 Institutionalisation of "Kemalism without Mustafa Kemal"
• 8 Bourgeoisification of the Military
• 2 The Construction of a New Society after the 1980 Military Coup
• 1 The Completion of the National Developmentalist Project
• 2 The Absorption of Kemalism into Neoliberalism
• 3 Islamisation of Society after the 1980s
• 4 Turgut Özal in Power (1983-1989 and 1989-1993): Post-Kemalist Rule
• 5 Political Liberalisation in the 1990s under Post-Bonapartist Rule
• 6 Second-generation Devout Turkish Bourgeoisie
• 6.1 MÜSİAD (The Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association)
• 6.2 ASKON (The Anatolian Tigers Business Association)
• 6.3 TUSKON (Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists)
• 3 War of Manoeuvre by Islamic Fundamentalism against the Kemalist State
• 1 The Political Trajectory of Islamic Parties Led by Necmettin Erbakan in Turkey
• 1.1 The National Order Party (1970-1971)
• 1.2 The National Salvation Party (1972-1981)
• 1.3 The Welfare Party (1983-1998)
• 2 The Just Economic System: a Petty-bourgeois Utopia in the Era of Neoliberalism
• 3 The National View (Milli Görüş) as Common Ideational Ground for Islamic Parties
• 4 The Islamic Alternative to the Kemalist State
• 5 The Military Intervention of 28 February 1997
• 6 The Rupture in Islamic Politics
• 4 War of Position by the AKP against the Kemalist State
• 1 The Restructuring of the State after the End of the Cold War
• 2 The Rise of the AKP in the Post-crisis Period and Continuation of Neoliberal Economic Policies
• 2.1 The 2001 Economic Crisis
• 2.2 The Economy under AKP Rule
• 3 Procedural Democratisation under the Influence of the EU
• 4 The AKP Tactics towards the Military: the Modern Capitalist Prince and a "War of Position"
• 5 Authoritarian Turn, Sub-imperialist Foreign Policy, and the Failed Coup of 15 July 2016
• 1 The Expansion of the Gülen Movement
• 2 The Ergenekon and Sledgehammer ( Balyoz ) Trials
• 3 Authoritarian Wave in Domestic Policy
• 4 Sub-imperialism and Neo-Ottomanism in Foreign Policy: strategic Depth or Strategic Failure?
• 4.1 Sub-imperialism in Question
• 4.2 The Military Dimension of Turkey's Sub-imperialist Role
• 4.3 Continuity in Turkish Foreign Policy in the 1990s
• 4.4 The Economic Foundation of Neo-Ottomanism: Turkish Exports and Capital in the Region
• 4.5 Turkish Companies as Agents of Regional Economic Power
• 4.6 Political Tools for Turkish Sub-imperialism
• 5 Neo-Ottomanism in Practice
• 6 The State Crisis Ahead of Turkey's Failed Coup
• 6 Concluding Observations
• 1 Basic Structural Economic Limitations of Turkey's Sub-imperialist Expansion: the Sustainability and Capacity Problem of the Turkish Economy
• 2 Is Erdoğan an Islamic Bonaparte?
• 3 Any Hope: waiting for Godot?
• References
• Index.