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Islam and foreign policy: Turkey’s ambivalent religious soft power in the authoritarian turn

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
- 08 Jan 2021 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 1, pp 38
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In this article, the authors define Turkey's Islamic soft power as ambivalent and scrutinise the reasons behind this ambiguity by exploring examples from other countries in South-eastern and Western Europe.
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This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-01-08 and is currently open access. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign policy & Soft power.

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Authoritarian politics in Turkey: elections, resistance and the AKP

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Religious Transnational Actors and Soft Power

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Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics

Joseph S. Nye
TL;DR: The concept of soft power was coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s and has been used frequently and often incorrectly by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world as mentioned in this paper.
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Collective Identity Formation and the International State

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how broadening systemic theory beyond rationalist concerns can help it to explain structural change in world politics and how collective identity among states could emerge endogenously at the systemic level.
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The Politics of Migrants’ Transnational Political Practices:

TL;DR: In this paper, the transnational political engagement of migrants and refugees in local, national and global political processes is examined, based on inductive reading of existing scholarship, and the authors propose a transnational approach to the analysis of migration.
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Islamic Political Identity in Turkey

TL;DR: Yavuz as discussed by the authors argues that Islamic social movements can be important agents for promoting a democratic and pluralistic society, and that the Turkish example holds long term promise for the rest of the Muslim world.
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