Umut Can Adısönmez- PhD
- Assistant Professor at İzmir University of Economics
Umut Can Adısönmez
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at İzmir University of Economics
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Introduction
Adisonmez received his PhD in International Relations from University of Kent, UK. He is an Assistant Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department of Izmir University of Economics.
The overarching theme of his research lies at the crossroad between critical security studies and Middle Eastern politics. His works have been published in various journals, including Political Psychology, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Alternatives, and Middle East Critique.
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September 2017 - October 2022
September 2015 - January 2016
Education
September 2015 - June 2017
September 2013 - June 2015
September 2013 - January 2014
Publications
Publications (18)
This article investigates the historical processes contributing towards the specific development of Turkey after the 1920s that in turn established the main contours of Turkey's conflict with the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK). It first argues that the traumatic conflict memories of the Turkish leadership (1918–35) influenced its individual‐leve...
Concern about the ontological security of the state has been at the center of Turkish politics since the beginning of the republican regime in 1923, shaping both the domestic and the foreign policy of Turkey. Taking the July 15 coup attempt in 2016 as a case, this article critically analyzes the political discourse on ontological (in)security in Tu...
What explains Turkey's current foreign policy disorientation, causing the country to swing from one position to another in a relatively short period of time? We argue that rational arguments do not provide comprehensive explanations of the fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy. By utilising a psychoanalytic approach, this study argues that the rel...
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics (‘Beka Meselesi’ in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most dist...
21. yüzyıl Türkiyesi’nde hem amaç hem de araç olarak kullanılan, toplumsal, siyasal ve kültürel yaşamın her alanına etki eden ‘devlet bekası’ kavramı (ya da ‘beka söylemi’) Cumhuriyet tarihinde süreklilik gösteren en temel iktidar retoriklerinin başında gelmektedir. Bu çalışma, yakın dönem Türkiye siyasi ve toplumsal hayatını oldukça ilgilendiren d...
While there is a large body of literature on different models of secularism and religion and politics, relatively scarce attention has been devoted to the experimentation of the moderate secularism model in authoritarian and Muslim-majority countries. This article brings a novel insight into the literature by unpacking the complex relationship betw...
What explains Turkey's current foreign policy disorientation, causing the country to swing from one position to another in a relatively short period of time? We argue that rational arguments do not provide comprehensive explanations of the fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy. By utilising a psychoanalytic approach, this study argues that the rel...
Throughout its history, Hagia Sophia has been used as an Orthodox church, a Roman Catholic church, a mosque, and a museum. After a controversial decision in 2020, Hagia Sophia was converted back into a mosque. This article shows that Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque is more than a juridical action. By adopting a performative approach, it is...
Since the establishment of Israel, the Turkish-Israeli relations have been marked by continuous periods of swings-from crises to cooperation and back. This article aims to shed light on the turbulent bilateral ties by focusing on the role of the current Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule in Türkiye. In doing so, it firstly provides a backgrou...
The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been unfolding over a long period, influencing the politics and conflicts in the Middle East. The dynamics, content, and form of the rivalry have changed dramatically following the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Sectarianism is frequently seen as the con-stitutive element of the conflict between the two co...
The political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey is hegemonic. What is central to this discourse is Sévresphobia: the idea that Turkey is surrounded by internal and external enemies who are ready to destroy it. This article aims to explain why the political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey sustains itself over...
There is hardly a more thought-provoking subject in the contemporary political history of Turkey than the country’s transforming state identity vis-à-vis its reflection over the changing foreign policy direction and apparatuses. At this crux, the increasing influence of Turkey’s
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on the state’s already shifti...
Throughout its Republican history, Turkey has attempted to formulate a “non-interventionist” foreign policy toward its neighbouring countries. Since the onset of the Arab Uprisings, however, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has abjured the traditional policy of “non-military engagement”, adopting instead an assertive and security-orie...
The state-centered and hard-power-oriented security notion, which was dominant perspective in the international conjuncture, has been redefined after the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In this work, " human security " notion as a primary challenge to the traditional security conception will be examined with the respect...
