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{"title":"Power struggle on subjectivity and foreign policy: a post-structuralist analysis of JDP’s policies towards the United States (2002–2016)","authors":"Tuncer Beyribey, Nur Çetinoğlu Harunoğlu","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2271152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2271152","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article analyses Turkish foreign policy towards the United States (US) during the Justice and Development Party (JDP) era by using a post-structuralist approach. Post-structuralism posits that foreign policy is a political practice reflecting domestic power struggles. Moreover, subjectivities and foreign policy practices are neither universal, objective, nor predetermined, since they are co-constitutive. From this theoretical perspective, the article explores the JDP’s 'foreign policy' discourse on US-Turkish relations, highlighting discursive practices in legitimising specific subjectivities, such as 'conservative' and 'Muslim' ones, as 'inherent' origins of foreign policy conduct. In two phases, 2002–2009 and 2009–2016, it analyses how changes in JDP’s foreign policy preferences towards the US function to legitimise or marginalise particular subjectivities in its power struggle vis-à-vis 'Kemalist' state elites. Ultimately, the article concludes that the JDP’s discourse exhibits a continuity in hegemonising the 'Islamic' subjectivity ascribed to the Turkish population, despite changes in foreign policy decisions.KEYWORDS: Turkish foreign policyJDPpost-structuralismTurkey-US relations Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See the discussion held in the TGNA, TBMM Tutanak Dergisi, Period. 22, Vol. 6, 11 March 2003, 456–462. See also, (Robins, Citation2003).2 Details can be seen in ‘The Alliance of Civilizations Initiative’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Türkiye, https://www.mfa.gov.tr/the-alliance-of-civilizations-initiative.en.mfa.Additional informationNotes on contributorsTuncer BeyribeyTuncer Beyribey serves as a guest lecturer at Istanbul Arel University. Prior to this role, he held the position of a research assistant at Marmara University, where he successfully completed his doctoral studies. His academic pursuits primarily encompass the domains of terrorism discourse, political violence in Turkey, and Turkish foreign policy.Nur Çetinoğlu HarunoğluNur Çetinoğlu Harunoğlu is assistant professor of International Relations at Marmara University, Istanbul. Her research interests cover Turkish foreign policy, US foreign policy, Turkey–US relations, and Gulf region. She is the co-author of Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surging on the Edge (with Aysegul Sever and Emre Ersen, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021) and Soguk Savas Sonrasinda Turkiye-ABD Iliskilerinde Orta Dogu ve Lider Diplomasisi (The Middle East and Leadership Diplomacy in Turkey-US Relations after the Cold War, with Ali Faik Demir, Istanbul, Yeditepe Publications, 2023).","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135825417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies","authors":"Tadek Markiewicz","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2267371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2267371","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes to focus on vulnerability in the operationalisation of securitisation theory. It argues that in empirical investigations we often fail to acknowledge that security acts may reflect weakness, not strength. Employing second-generation securitisation research, it first problematizes the common approach to securitisation. Namely, that the self-referential conceptualisation of security acts, together with the realist understanding of power, lead to interpretations of securitisation as a tool of unprincipled statecraft. Secondly, drawing on Brown’s work on border walling, the article reasons that securitisation is predicated on vulnerability. Vulnerability is a legitimising necessity of securitisation. One cannot designate a threat without tying it to vulnerability (real/imagined). Securitisations are essentially claims of vulnerability. Thirdly, utilising contextual and narrative analysis of two case studies, this paper illustrates how securitisations are coupled with vulnerability. The article formalizes a generative research avenue of securitisation. One that better accounts for the intersubjective aspects of security acts.","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Justifications of repression in autocracies: an empirical analysis of Morocco and Tunisia, 2000–2010","authors":"Maria Josua","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2265287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2265287","url":null,"abstract":"How do autocrats communicate about repression? Previous studies have analysed how autocratic officials justify the repression of large-scale protests to avoid backlash effects. However, we know much less about how everyday repression against dissidents and ordinary citizens is communicated and justified under authoritarianism. This paper is the first to systematically investigate how officials in autocracies justify, conceal, or deny repression employed by different state actors. It studies the communication of repression in two North African autocracies by analysing the novel Justifications of Repressive Incidents in Morocco and Tunisia Dataset (JuRI). The event dataset contains 439 instances of repression between 2000 and 2010 and disaggregates various dimensions of repression and its communication. The empirical analysis shows how the chosen forms of repression influence ensuing patterns of communication and justification. Studying the communication of repression helps us better understand the nexus of legitimation, judicial repression and political violence in autocracies.","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies","authors":"Jonathan Paquin, Pierre Colautti-Féré","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2268880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2268880","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAmerica’s allies have reacted differently to the uncertainty surrounding US global leadership and the return to hard power politics in the 2010s. Some allies have remained steadfast in their commitment to Washington, while others distanced themselves from the United States. Why is it so? This article develops an integrated argument that brings together different strands of the literature on alignment, to better make sense of cross-national and within-case variations in allies’ strategic behavior. By examining three case studies from distinct regional contexts – Japan, Poland and Turkey – the paper shows that although these allies all shared concerns about the Obama and Trump administrations’ security commitment, it was their differing perceptions of the threats posed by China and Russia’s power that influenced their pursuit of either stronger alignment with the US security patron – through internal balancing for ‘attractiveness’ and internal hedging –, or increased strategic autonomy from Washington by pursuing hard hedging.KEYWORDS: AlignmentbalancinghedgingJapanPolandTurkey AcknowledgmentsWe wish to express our gratitude to the following individuals for their invaluable feedback on earlier drafts of this paper: John Ciorciari, Jacob Fortier, Steve Jackson, Dominika Kunertova, Christopher Layne, Darren Lim, Justin Massie, Takuya Matsuda, and the anonymous reviewers. This paper also benefited from feedback at the 2021 and 2022 ISA Meetings. Final responsibility for the article remains with us.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [grant number: 435-2018-1279].Notes on contributorsJonathan PaquinJonathan Paquin is Full Professor of Political Science at Laval University, Canada. He has written numerous articles on foreign policy and international relations, including in International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Cooperation and Conflict. He recently co-edited America’s Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony, Routledge, 2020; and coauthored Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Jonathan Paquin received a Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University and was a Fulbright visiting scholar and Resident Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS, Johns Hopkins) in Washington DC. Paquin was also Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He is currently codirector of the Network for Strategic Analysis, which is funded by the Canadian Department of National Defence.Pierre Colautti-FéréPierre Colautti is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Laval University, Canada. He recently co-published an article ‘Loyalty or autonomy? Canadian and French divergent strategic behaviours in time of power transition', Canadian Studies, Vol. 91, p. 165-187","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the floating ummah in neoliberal Indonesia","authors":"Inaya Rakhmani","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2267363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2267363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn recent decades, politicians – particularly of the conservative kind – have been influential in binding together political support based on identity. Taking the case of the most populous Muslim country in the world and the largest democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, this study analyses how Islamic identity has been instrumental during moments of political consolidation. It focuses on the way the political campaign industry uses social media to appeal to an otherwise fragmented ‘floating ummah’ (Hadiz, V. R. (2018). The ‘floating’ ummah in the fall of ‘Ahok’ in Indonesia. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 7, 271–290), is an assemblage of believers unified momentarily against an abstract oppressor. The mobilisation of the floating ummah with social media, this article argues, has provided opportunities for marginal politicians to gain standing in an intra-elite struggle over power dominated by the oligarchy.KEYWORDS: Floating ummahIndonesiaIslamidentity politicssocial media Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Universitas Indonesia: [Grant Number International Publications grant].Notes on contributorsInaya RakhmaniInaya Rakhmani is assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Director of the Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia. Her research interest is in cultural political economy, especially how media and communication can hinder and/or enable redistribution of wealth and access.","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136063631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptions of a rogue state in a comparative perspective: the United States and European Union vis-à-vis North Korea","authors":"Sofia Ribeiro-Lemos, Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2265289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2265289","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article seeks to understand how the conception of North Korea as a rogue state influenced the relations of Washington and Brussels with this eastern Asian country between 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) and the outbreak of the pandemic crisis (2020). This is done by drawing on the analytical framework offered by Miskimmon, O’Loughlin, and Roselle that allows one to compare the US and EU strategic narratives vis-à-vis North Korea. Besides adding a novel comparative perspective to the available studies focused on rogue states, this work concludes that although the US and the EU utilised sanctions to coerce North Korea, they exhibited different conceptions of rogueness. While the US’ system narrative characterised North Korea as a rogue, the EU’s characterisation focused on its violations of international law. Yet, the two actors’ identity and issue narratives highlighted their role and responsibility to bring the country back to the path of denuclearisation.KEYWORDS: European UnionNorth Korearogue statestrategic narrativesUnited States of America AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 This date draws upon WHO’s declaration: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-20202 The tweets analysed range from January 2017 until June 2018. For an archive of the President’s tweets, see: https://www.thetrumparchive.com/ (last accessed January 2023).3 The Agreed Framework (1994) was an agreement between the US and North Korea, in which both parties would work in a step-by-step manner to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program. It collapsed with the October Revelations (2002) with violations from both sides. Nevertheless, scholars argue that it was ‘to date the most successful effort to cap North Korea’s development of a nuclear capability, and the longest verified freeze on North Korea’s nuclear fuel production’ (Panda, Citation2020, p. 47).4 The Six-Party Talks were multilateral discussions between China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the US held from 2003 until 2009 with the purpose of negotiating the dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear program.5 In the September Agreement (2005) the six actors agreed to reach the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula ‘in a phased manner in line with the principle of commitment for commitment, action for action’ (NCNK 2005). Its importance lies on what Panda argues to be the most ‘wide-ranging expression of a North Korean commitment on denuclearisation and disarmament’ (2020, 57).6 For a more extensive list, see: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/northkoreaprofile (last accessed January 2023).7 According to the Country Report on Terrorism of 2019. Available at: https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/democratic-peoples-republ","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leadership and performance in informal institutions: the internal dynamics of BRICS","authors":"Zhen Han, Mihaela Papa","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2264065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2264065","url":null,"abstract":"How does leadership affect the performance of informal institutions? Leadership in BRICS is particularly puzzling: this informal institution rapidly grows despite the disparate interests of its members, some of which are in longstanding conflict. This article examines how three forms of leadership – intellectual, entrepreneurial, and structural – affect institutional performance using BRICS cooperation data. It demonstrates the importance of intellectual leadership, particularly in strategically framing the cooperation problem in a way that creates mutual gains, as essential for realising collective outcomes in informal institutions. Collective action is catalyzed through the interplay of the three leadership forms. However, the activating function of intellectual leadership – paired with follow-up activities if it initially fails – shapes the performance of these institutions. This study proposes new directions for exploring the leadership-performance nexus in informal institutions and within BRICS, a key player seeking to reform global economic governance.","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections","authors":"Anders Sjögren","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2228079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2228079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41655789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crafting consensus: Indonesia’s discursive strategies in legitimising free trade policy","authors":"M. F. Karim, S. Putri","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2209395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2209395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite its emphasis on trade, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been perceived as a liberalisation agenda motivated primarily by strategic concerns with fewer economic benefits. This article analyses the strategies of Indonesia's trade policymakers to legitimize its leading role in RCEP. It is argued that Indonesia's legitimation strategy is implemented through the invocation of two discourses: Indonesia's historical position as a regional leader and bridge-builder and the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). While the former is utilised as a coordinative discourse to provide an overarching vision for other state agencies with a protectionist bent, the latter is employed as a communicative discourse to challenge domestic contestations, especially those from civil society and business interests. This article contributes to the study of trade policy discourse by investigating the role of policymakers in mobilising discourses as a strategy for legitimising a strategically-driven liberalisation agenda.","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45633384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct","authors":"Sebastian Elischer, Justin A. Hoyle","doi":"10.1080/13569775.2023.2230718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2230718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51673,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41573415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}