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Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model

Exploring Developmental Alternatives

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Authors:
  1. Anita Sengupta

    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India

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  • First volume to look at the ‘myth’ of the Turkish Model from a Eurasian and post-Arab Spring perspective

  • Critically looks at various understandings of the Turkish Model

  • Looks at the broader question of how far ‘models’ work for regions in transition

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Political Dynamics in Eurasia: Background and Context of the Turkish Model

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 1-24

  3. What Is the “Turkish Model?”

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 25-50

  4. Confronting the Past

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 51-73

  5. Eurasianism or Neo-Ottomanism: The Neighborhood in Turkish Foreign Policy

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 75-100

  6. The Central Asian Response to “Models”

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 101-128

  7. The Turkish Model at Crossroads

    • Anita Sengupta
    Pages 129-155

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 157-165
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About this book

The volume discusses what the Turkish Model, or Turkish Development Alternative, was and why it was promoted in the Central Asian republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It argues that the Turkish Model was a myth that transferred the ideal of a ''secular, democratic, liberal society'' as a model for the post Soviet Turkic world and in the process encouraged a ''Turkic" rhetoric that emphasized connection between the two regions based on a common ancestry. The volume begins with an understanding of the reality of the Model from a Turkish perspective and then goes on to examine whether the Turkic world as a "cultural-civilizational alternative" makes sense both from a historical as well as contemporary perspective. It concludes by looking at the re-emergence of the Model in the wake of the events in West Asia in early 2011 and examines how in the light of a search for options the Turkish Model is once again projected as viable.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India

    Anita Sengupta

About the author

Anita Sengupta is Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Her work at the Institute has been focused on the Eurasian region with Uzbekistan being her area of special interest. She has also worked extensively on Turkish politics.  She is the author of Heartlands of Eurasia: The geopolitics of political space, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books July 2009); Russia, China and Multilateralism in Central Asia, (New Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2005); The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Transition, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books, 2003) and Frontiers into Borders: The Transformation of Identities in Central Asia, (Delhi and London: Hope India Publications and Greenwich Millennium Press Ltd, 2002). She has also edited a number of volumes on Eurasian politics.Asian Studies and Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her articles have been translated and published in Russian and Chinese. She has been an invited speaker at various national and international seminars.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Developmental Alternatives

  • Authors: Anita Sengupta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1765-7

  • Publisher: Springer New Delhi

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1764-0Published: 15 May 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2943-8Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1765-7Published: 02 May 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 165

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Relations, European Integration, Political Philosophy

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