Turkey in the Global Economy: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Populism, 2000-2020
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5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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- Virtual Event
About this event
Turkey in the Global Economy examines the transformation of Turkey over the past two decades, from an underdeveloped and weak economic power into an important regional player with a dynamic economy in global networks. In laying out this trajectory, I aim to deploy two optics: on the one hand, a broad view of Turkey in the context of what we refer to as the 'global shift' of political and financial power from the developed West/ North to the countries of the East/ South. This shift is most apparent in the emergence of the BRIC quartet, but I argue that it has also opened vital opportunities for other, middle-range regional powers such as Turkey, allowing them to enhance their regional and global influence. At the same time, the book provides a more granular focus on the political and economic transformation of Turkey itself. This has taken the form of a wide-ranging neoliberal reforms aimed at creating an export-oriented industrial sector and restructuring Turkey's financial system. These external and internal processes are examined against the backdrop of a domestic scene in Turkey dominated by the AK party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who paradoxically sought to advance the neoliberal agenda while co-opting traditionalist-Islamist elements into Turkey’s ruling elite.
Recording
About the speaker
Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations in Keele University and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Faultlines. Among his publications are A Clash of Empires: Turkey Between Russian Bolshevism and British Imperialism (I.B. Tauris, 1996); The Politics of Caspian Oil (Palgrave, 2001); Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991 (Routledge, 2006); Unholy Alliance: Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States (with Ben Fowkes, Routledge, 2011); and The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism. Global Power Shift (with Vassilis Fouskas, Palgrave, 2019).
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This webinar will take place online via Zoom.
* The webinar will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page for those that are unable to participate via Zoom.
Chair: Gilbert Achcar (SOAS)
Organiser: SOAS Middle East Institute
Contact email: smei@soas.ac.uk
