Contemporary Turkish Politics [2102-ERASMUS-CTPL] Semestr zimowy 2023/24
Wykład, grupa nr 1

I. TURKISH DOMESTIC POLITICS

S. E. Aytaç, E. Elçi, “Populism in Turkey” in Populism Around the World. A Comparative Perspective, ed. Daniel Stockemer, Cham, Springer, 2019, pp. 89-108.

B. Esen, S. Gümüşçü, Rising Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey, Third World Quarterly, vol. 37, issue 9, 2016, pp. 1581-1606.

B. Esen, S. Gümüşçü, A Small Yes for Presidentialism: The Turkish Constitutional Referendum of April 2017. South European Society and Politics, vol. 22, no. 3, 2017, pp. 303-26.

B. Esen, S. Gümüşçü, Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey, South European Society and Politics, vol. 24, issue 3, 2019, pp. 317–342.

E. Kalaycıoğlu, A hundred years of flux: Turkish political regimes from 1921 to 2023, Turkish Studies, vol. 24, no. 3-4, 2023, pp. 412-434.

P. A. Musil, Emergence of a Dominant Party System After Multipartyism: Theoretical Implications from the Case of the AKP in Turkey, South European Society and Politics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2015, pp. 71-92.

E. Özbudun, Ö. F. Gençkaya, Democratization and the politics of constitution-making in Turkey, Central European University Press 2009, selected chapters.

A. Szymański, J. Wódka, W. Ufel and A. Dziubińska, Between Fair and Rigged. Elections as a Key Determinant of the ‘Borderline Political Regime’ - Turkey in Comparative Perspective”, Peter Lang Verlag 2020, chapter 3.

M. H. Yavuz, Understanding Turkish secularism in the 21th century: a contextual roadmap, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 55-78.

E. Zürcher, Turkey. A Modern History, I. B. Tauris 2005, part 1 and 2.

II. TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY

M. Aydın, The Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy, and Turkey’s European Vocation, in: G. Nonneman (ed.), Analysing Middle East Foreign Policies and the Relationship with Europe, Routledge 2005, pp. 197-222.

S. Aydın-Düzgit, N. Tocci. Turkey and the European Union. London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015, selected chapters.

P. Baev, Russia and Turkey. Strategic Partners and Rivals, IFRI, May 2021.

M. Benli Altunışık, The trajectory of a modified middle power: an attempt to make sense of Turkey’s foreign policy in its centennial, Turkish Studies, vol. 24, no. 3-4, 2023, pp. 658-672

S. M. Bölme, NATO-Türkiye Relations: From Irreplaceable Partner to Questionable Ally, Studia Europejskie/Studies in European Affairs, vol. 26, issue 3, 2022, pp. 93-116.

A. Cianciara, A. Szymański, Differentiated integration: towards a new model of European Union-Turkey relations? Turkish Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2020, pp. 254-273.

E. İçener, Surviving a Coma? Türkiye-EU Relations in Times of Crises (2005–2022), Studia Europejskie/Studies in European Affairs, vol. 26, issue 3, 2022, pp. 71-91.

M. Kutlay, Z. Öniş, Turkish foreign policy in a post-western order: strategic autonomy or new forms of dependence?”, International Affairs. vol. 97, issue 4, 2021, pp. 1085–1104.

A. Murinson, The Strategic Depth Doctrine of Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 42, no. 6, 2006, pp. 945-964.

Z. Öniş, Historic missed opportunities and prospects for renewal: Turkey-EU relations in a post-Western order, Turkish Stjudies, vol. 24, no. 3-4, 2023, pp. 691-713.

M. Pierini, Understanding the Erdoğan-Putin Duet, Carnegie Europe, 30 August 2022.

A. Szymański, ’Domestification’ of the Middle Eastern Policy of Turkey”, in: S. Gardocki, R. Ożarowski, R. Ulatowski (eds.), The Islamic World in International Relations, Peter Lang Verlag 2019, pp. 93-116.

J. Zanotti, C. Thomas, Turkey: Background and U.S. Relations In Brief, Congressional Research Service, 5 August 2022.

Turkish Domestic Politics

1. Modernization of the Turkish State and Society (incl. Europeanization and De-Europeanization)

2. Current Political System of Turkey I – Constitutional System

3. Current Political System of Turkey II – Governance System. From Parliamentary to Presidential System

4. Current Political System III – Elections and Electoral System. Electoral Malpractices.

5. Current Political System IV - Political Parties System – From Multiparty to Dominant Party System

6. Democratization of Turkey.

7. De-Democratization of Turkey. Political Regime in Turkey.

8. Religion and Ideologies in the Turkish Politics

Turkish Foreign Policy

9. Determinants of the Turkish Foreign Policy. Turkish Foreign

Policy Doctrine

10. Turkey’s Role in International Politics (Turkey as a Middle Power)

11. Turkey-EU Relations I – Past and Present

12. Turkey-EU Relations II – Future Model of Relations

13. Turkey-US Relations. Turkey in NATO.

14. Turkey-Russia Relations

15. Role of Turkey in the Middle East

Didactic methods: lecture as well as presentation of multimedia materials

Assessment depends on the fulfillment of the following requirements:

Writing successfully the final written exam consisted of quiz and open questions (students should obtain at least half of the points to pass the exam).