Roy Karadag

The ‘Ankara Moment’: the politics of Turkey’s regional power in the Middle East, 2007–11

Abstract Around 2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has maintained at least until the outset of the Arab Revolt in 2011. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim akp government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, this article highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey’s domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and the advantageous regional developments in the Middle East at the same time. It holds that this specific linkage—the ‘Ankara Moment’—and its regional resonance in the neighbouring Middle East carries more transformative potential than the ‘Washington Consensus’ or the ‘Beijing Consensus’ so prominently discussed in current global South politics.

The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP

In 2006/2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has continued to maintain in the context of the Arab Spring. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim AKP government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, the paper highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey’s domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and the advantageous regional developments in the Middle East at the same time. It concludes that this specific linkage – the “Ankara Moment” – and its regional resonance in the neighboring Middle East carries more transformative potential than the “Washington Consensus” or the “Beijing Consensus” so prominently discussed in current Global South politics.

Where Does Turkey’s New Capitalism Come From? Comment on Eren Duzgun LIII, 2 (2012)

European Journal of Sociology / Volume 54 / Issue 01 / April 2013, pp 147 152 DOI: 10.1017/S0003975613000064, Published online: 03 June 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003975613000064 How to cite this article: Roy Karadag (2013). Where Does Turkey’s New Capitalism Come From?. European Journal of Sociology, 54, pp 147-152 doi:10.1017/S0003975613000064 Request Permissions : Click here

The Social Question and State Formation in British Africa

The paper explores governmental perceptions and reactions to “social questions” in British colonial Africa, c. 1880-1950. By comparing three different political entities, Egypt, South Africa and Uganda, we find that authorities across cases have been acutely aware of potentially destabilising social change. Some social problems actually resulted from colonial projects themselves, giving rise to rather contradictory interpretations and policies. However, the intensity of political reactions to social questions varied widely, ranging from a largely passive approach in Egypt to the introduction of modern welfare in South Africa. We argue that perceptions and responses to social dislocation had a long-term impact on patterns of state formation and social policy development.

Die Verunsicherung der Welt. Aktuelle Gewaltkonflikte und globale Ordnung

The unsettledness of the world. Current violent conflicts and global order Abstract: Political science has only marginally worked on the most recent dynamics of war development in the Middle East and on the African continent. This article suggests an interpretation, based on the „Hamburg approach“ to the study of war, which focuses on conflictive modernization processes and institutional legitimacy deficits. Whilst form and incumbency of state domination are at the center of these violent conflicts, their most visible product of the laboratories of multilateral intervention is rather an internationalization of political domination than what liberal approaches label as “global governance”. In order to grasp these changes, political science has to re-think the sociology of the state and to rediscover political violence as a subject of research and theory.