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Book SynopsisJustice and Development Party (JDP), as the sole incumbent force for the last decade and a half, has proven to be an influential political actor with its power and capability to shape-shift the domestic and foreign policy of the Republic of Turkey. Within this context, this work analyses the transformation of the Turkish society through a constructivist perspective in the context of a «transformational shift» from the «traditional» experienced throughout the JDP tenure. JDP’s «new» policy orientation is scrutinized through a constructivist lens to examine the entrenched «clash of identities» between the Islamists and the secularists in Turkish politics.
Table of ContentsJDP – Constructivism – Transformational shift – Traditional – New foreign policy – Domestic – Convergent – Instrumentalism and expediency – Value – Clash of identities, – Secularists –Islamists 1. Erdoğan’s New Turkey – Identity Matrix – Transformation – A New Islamist State – Emergence of Erdoğanism – Demise of Kemalism
