Popular Culture and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey and Valley of the Wolves Ambush

POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM
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Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER OUTLINE
Theoretical Framework
	CONSTRUCTIVISM
		The Role of Identities in Constructivist IR Theory
		Domestic Identities and National Interests
		Articulation of the Meaning and Interpellation of the Subject Identities
	POPULAR CULTURE AND IR
	GRAMSCI AND POPULAR CULTURE
		Gramsci in IR Theory
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
Historical Background of Turkish Politics
	GRAMSCI AND TURKISH POLITICS
	HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF POLITICS IN TURKEY
		Kemalist Hegemony
		History of the Rise of Political Islam Before the 1980s
		Rise of Political Islam in Turkish Politics Since 1980 and the AKP
	POPULAR CULTURE AND POLITICS
	CONCLUSION
The Security Imaginary in the Era of the AKP
	THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TFP IN THE AKP ERA
		The Main Tenets of the TFP
	SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM IN IR IN THE CASE OF TFP IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
	THE AKP’S SECURITY IMAGINARY AND TURKISH STATE IDENTITY
		Political Islam in the TFP
		The Security Imaginary of the AKP
	THREE FEATURES OF THE STATE IDENTITY CREATED BY THE AKP
		Turkey as the Leader of the Middle East
		The Defender of the Oppressed in the Middle East
		Self-Confident Turkey
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
		Series Overview
		Overview of Seasons 7 and 8
	INTERTEXTUALITY
	ANALYSIS OF THE SERIES
		Information
		Ideology
		Articulation
		Interpellation
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Leader of the Middle East
	IDEOLOGY AND LEADERSHIP
	ARTICULATING THE “LEADER OF THE MIDDLE EAST”
	INTERPELLATION TO THE LEADER OF THE MIDDLE EAST
	CONCLUSION
	NOTE
VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Defender of the Oppressed
	IDEOLOGY AND THE “DEFENDER OF THE OPPRESSED”
	ARTICULATING THE “DEFENDER OF THE OPPRESSED”
	INTERPELLATION TO THE “DEFENDER OF THE OPPRESSED”
	CONCLUSION
	IDEOLOGY AND “SELF-CONFIDENT TURKEY”
	ARTICULATING “SELF-CONFIDENT TURKEY”
	INTERPELLATION TO “SELF-CONFIDENT TURKEY”
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
Conclusion
	NOTES
Bibliography
Index
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