Abstract
The chapter analyses the political narrative used by Turkey’s political elite for rationalising, explaining and justifying regional policies and behaviour in the post-2011 Middle East. It detects the long-term traditions of strategic thinking in Turkey, demonstrating their role in the new foreign policy narrative. Based on this contemporary narrative, Turkey considers itself as an order-producing country. According to the narrative, Turkey is enabled to perform this role due to its own domestic restoration project. The chapter indicates that the new narrative envisions an Islamic-conservative ideal society for the whole Middle East, targeting in particular Muslim Brotherhood constituencies across the region. In the concluding section Turkey’s new foreign policy narrative is analysed in the context of current international relations.
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Alaranta, T. (2020). Turkey as the Order-Producing Country: Narrating the New Turkey in the Middle East. In: Mühlberger, W., Alaranta, T. (eds) Political Narratives in the Middle East and North Africa. Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35217-2_4
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