Foreign Policy as Nation Making

Abou-El-Fadl, Reem

doi:10.1017/9781108566025

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“…Nasser was a main act at the Bandung conference in 1955; Arab journalists, students, and artists flocked to Cairo (Ibrahim 1985, 28); Egyptian students travelled to other non-aligned countries, such as Tito's Yugoslavia (Li 2019, 149-169). The most concrete political manifestation of strengthened south-south ties was the United Arab Republic, a political union comprising present-day Egypt, Syria, and the Gaza Strip that functioned as a sovereign state with Cairo as the capital between 1958and 1961(Abou-El-Fadl 2018Jankowski 2002, 101-178). A more soft-power example of Egypt as region-maker was the transnational radio channel sut al-'arab (Voice of the Arabs), which propagated Nasser's message of Arab unity, backed up by the legendary singer Umm Kulthum's unmatched popularity (Danielson 1997).…”

Section: Taming the Nilementioning

confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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Section: Taming the Nilementioning

confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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“…to NATO in 1952, and the establishment of major American military bases holding nuclear warheads within the country. 89 The DP's stated quest to develop Turkey into a "little America" coincided with receiving American economic aid between 1950 and 1964 that amounted to 35 percent of total public investment in Turkey. 90 Turning towards the US entailed promoting the values of a superior imagined West, and similarly, suppressing dissent through the use of divisive Cold War rhetoric.…”

Section: Debating the Anthem Debating The Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These and other buzzwords-the 'red menace', the 'traitors to the nation'-sank deep into the Turkish political lexicon, colouring it with the stark palette of the Cold War." 91 For the young nation, the anthem provided an outlet for public discourse about broader national values. Calls for its alteration or removal, subsequently met with accusations that dissenters were a "microbe of Communism," reveal internal tensions over the role of religiosity in public life and governance as well as the outsized role American influence was beginning to play in shaping those dialogues.…”

Section: Debating the Anthem Debating The Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Orienting a Nation: The Turkish National Anthem Controversies

Wozniak

2023

Music &Amp; Politics

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As Turkey’s ruling elite founded a nation from the collapsed Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, competitions for the Turkish national anthem’s lyrics and musical setting did not immediately yield clear winners. The original winning composition by Ali Rıfat Çağatay draws on Ottoman-era musical and literary conventions; however, the anthem was redacted six years after selection and replaced in 1930 by the current national anthem by Osman Zeki Üngör, a work iconic of European anthems yet infamous for its “broken” prosody. The anthem’s prosodic errors and enigmatic selection process have fueled national debates since its adoption. I argue that the Turkish ruling elite’s selection of a national anthem reflects the challenges of a broader nation-building project premised on rejecting a presumed Ottoman past and oriented towards the modernity associated with the imagined West. More broadly, I assert that understanding the anthem genre requires interrogating the Eurocentrism of non-European anthems that would seem to seek to emulate European exemplars. Exploring nearly a century of anthem controversies in Turkish media and film illuminates how prosodic errors have served as an innocuous proxy for politically sensitive topics, including tensions over religion in public life and governance as well as the Turkey-US relationship since the Cold War. On the other hand, the many-layered meanings within the anthem as well as its iconicity of the nation have enabled those acting in the name of the state to deploy the anthem as a tool of violent state coercion to discipline nonconforming subjects.

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“…Il contatto con il partito Baʿth e l'ascesa di ʿAbd al-Nāṣir nello scenario internazionale impressero una nuova direzione al nasserismo che, nei primi mesi del 1955, mostrò nuovi elementi: la posizione antiisraeliana più marcata e decisa rispetto al passato; l'aspetto terzomondista, emerso in seguito alla conferenza di Bandung; il crescente desiderio di riavvicinarsi al resto del mondo arabo, e l'ambizione di guidarlo, contrapponendosi al progetto iracheno della Mezzaluna Fertile 49 51 . Similitudini e differenze col baathismo comparivano anche nel significato attribuito alla religione islamica.…”

Section: Conclusioni: La Fusione Ideologica (Incompleta) Tra Baathism...unclassified

Resurrezione o rivoluzione? Le reciproche influenze linguistiche e terminologiche tra nasserismo e baathismo alla vigilia della Repubblica Araba Unita (1952-1958)

Primavera

2023

NAD-Dis

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This paper aims to study the Baathist-Nasserist dialogue occurred in the years preceding the establishment of the United Arab Republic (1952-1958). After providing a historical overview of the evolution of Arab nationalism, this study tries to understand the mutual ideological influences and differences between Baʿathist and Nasserite terminology. In addition, it discusses the effects of such dialogue within the ideological and political context. The research relies on a thorough analysis of Arabic primary sources, from the writings of Baʿath founders to ʿAbd al-Nāṣir’s speeches and writings. Keywords such as “revolution”, “struggle”, “socialism” and “Arabism” will be analyzed and compared. By examining the most relevant conceptual issues from a linguistic and historical perspective, this paper aims to enrich the already existing field of studies about the historical and ideological reassessment of the UAR and, more broadly, of the so called “secular” pan-Arab movements.

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Foreign Policy as Nation Making

Cited by 7 publications

References 161 publications

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Orienting a Nation: The Turkish National Anthem Controversies

Resurrezione o rivoluzione? Le reciproche influenze linguistiche e terminologiche tra nasserismo e baathismo alla vigilia della Repubblica Araba Unita (1952-1958)

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