The Shape of ‘Rising Powers’ to Come? The Antinomies of Growth and Neoliberal Development in Turkey

Tansel, Cemal Burak

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“…65 Meanwhile, Erdoğan and Hisarlıoğlu's 66 insightful edited collection on foreign policy features critical approaches like Güner's mapping of shifting geocultural imaginaries among Turkish agents engaged with Africa. 67 These compliment prolific Marxist/worldsystems works by Tansel, 68 Nisancioglu, 69 and Duzgun 70 on the political economy of Turkey's (semi-)peripheral global position -and the economies of knowledge which such structures shape. Thus, scholars of or proximate to the pluralizing agenda of global IR have thrived.…”

Section: Ir's Global Turn and Turkey's Comparative Advantagementioning

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From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial

Fisher-Onar

2023

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

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The Republic of Turkey continues to grapple with a foundational tension between isolationist impulses steeped in a nationalist, sovereigntist, i.e., realist outlook on the world, and what I call the “embedded liberalism” of the republican project. Yet, neither realism nor liberalism are sufficient, I show, to explain Turkey’s trajectory. Invoking three visions of the international system as envisaged in realism (billiard balls), liberalism (concentric circles), and global IR (which I conceptualize as a Venn diagram), I argue that the last best captures (Turkey’s) challenges and opportunities. My contention is that global IR incorporates constructivist claims regarding historical and social forces in world politics, but also decenters Eurocentric notions of history and society. A timely way to read multipolarity, the approach supports relational learning regarding our overlapping challenges as humanity. Scholars in and of Turkey arguably have a comparative advantage in this space. This is due to their ability, albeit not always actualized, to read the world in plural terms — the epistemological equivalent of Turkey’s proverbial bridging role in world politics.

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Section: Ir's Global Turn and Turkey's Comparative Advantagementioning

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From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial

Fisher-Onar

2023

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“…he trajectory of administrative reform during the AKP era has followed the same pattern of recentralization in the guise of contingent decentralization. For example, the approach to privatization-the pace and value of which have increased dramatically since 2003-reveals an identical tendency for 'streamlining' procedures with a view to removing institutional and regulatory barriers against privatization (Angın & Bedirhanoğlu, 2013;Tansel, 2017a). As Buğra & Savaşkan (2004, p. 82) have noted, since 2003 AKP governments have amended existing laws and passed new pieces of legislation which have 'simpliied bureaucratic procedures, expanded and consolidated prime ministerial control over the Privatization Agency and eliminated the rules concerning partial public ownership of privatized enterprises' .…”

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“…hese policy priorities have resulted in a macroeconomic balance sheet that boasts inlation reduction, high FDI inlows generated by speculative capital movements, an initial period of high GDP growth rates, and improvements in GDP per capita. he inal two benchmarks mirror the coeval performance of many other 'emerging countries' rather than signal an exceptional feat (see Tansel, 2017a). Yet, despite the ot-overstated assessments of this performance, the AKP programme has failed to tackle unemployment and chart a route out of the country's trajectory of 'jobless growth' (Yeldan & Ercan, 2011).…”

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Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: urban governance and state restructuring in the shadow of executive centralization

Tansel

2018

Globalizations

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department of politics, university of sheffield, uk email | website | orcid | article permalink forthcoming in « globalizations »he implosion of popular struggles against the erosion of economic and democratic rights in the Middle East has thrown into sharp relief the co-constitutive character of neoliberal reforms and authoritarian state practices. his article zooms in on this relationship, and traces the consolidation of a core component of authoritarian statisms by examining how the ruling AKP government in Turkey has facilitated executive centralization. his process refers to a form of state restructuring whereby key decision-making powers are increasingly concentrated in the hands of the central government while democratic avenues to contest government policies are curtailed through legal and administrative reforms, and the marginalization of dissident social forces. I unpack the mechanisms of executive centralization in Turkey by exploring the transformation of urban governance under AKP rule, which has promoted a spectacular degree of state-led commodiication of land and housing while simultaneously recentralizing key decision-making powers. he investigation demonstrates that executive centralization in urban governance has paved the way for the swit implementation of contested urban transformation projects marked by a non-participatory approach to urban 'renewal' , the reconiguration of the state's redistributive function vis-à-vis low-income households, and a tendency to exacerbate existing patterns of inequalities via the housing market.AKP ▪︎ executive centralization ▪︎ housing policy ▪︎ neoliberalism ▪︎ urban governance ▪︎ Turkey

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“…Compared against a global template that strictly conceptualised neoliberalism as marketisation, some scholars have suggested that the Turkish trajectory during the AKP period signals a different modus operandi as it 'differs from the thick versions of free market fundamentalism' (Keyman 2010, p. 316;cf. Buğra & Savaşkan 2014, p. 8;Tansel 2017c). Authoritarian neoliberalism helps us reorient this picture by reaffirming (1) the state's role and function in reproducing neoliberalism, and (2) the significance of analysing neoliberal policies beyond marketisation, as vehicles to transform the relationship between states, households and 'the economy' on a significantly expanded logic of commodification.…”

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Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress

Tansel¹

2018

South European Society and Politics

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Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey's 'authoritarian turn' and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the 'economic' and the 'political' factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party's methods of governance have shifted from an earlier 'democratic' modeldefined by 'hegemony'-to an emergent 'authoritarian' one. In contrast, by retracing the mechanisms of the state-led reproduction of neoliberalism since 2003, the paper demonstrates that the party's earlier 'hegemonic' activities were also shaped by authoritarian tendencies which manifested at various levels of governance. The recent trajectory of Turkish politics under the government of the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi-Justice and Development Party) is increasingly positioned as a signature node in the global web of 'democratic backsliding'. The latter concerns contemporary cases of democratic debilitation defined by 'promissory coups' , 'executive aggrandisement' and 'longer-term strategic harassment and manipulation' of the electoral processes. 1 Once touted as a 'model democracy' (Akyol 2011; cf. Bâli 2011) for a region in turmoil, the academic and 'popular' 2 portrayals of AKP's Turkey have changed gradually from 2011 to 2013 onwards. This is a period marked by the party's third electoral victory and the intensification of its subsequent attacks on rights and freedoms as demonstrated by the Gezi Park protests. In contrast to the earlier positive assessments of the party's first two terms in office (2002-2007 and 2007-2011), the 2011-2013 period has come to be seen as a watershed. After this period, the terms of the debate have shifted from unpacking the mechanisms of the party's selfproclaimed 'conservative democracy' (Özbudun 2006; Duran 2008) to charting its 'authoritarian turn' (Benhabib 2013). This recent focus has spawned a considerable literature that attempts to explain the conjunction of AKP's authoritarian streak with its ongoing commitment to a minimal representative democracy and its insistence on legitimising itself by invoking a majoritarian conception of a 'national will'-justified by the party's electoral success. Accordingly, positioned against the earlier image of a (liberal) 'democratic' agent of reform, AKP in recent

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The Shape of ‘Rising Powers’ to Come? The Antinomies of Growth and Neoliberal Development in Turkey

Cited by 11 publications

References 74 publications

From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial

From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial

Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: urban governance and state restructuring in the shadow of executive centralization

Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress

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