Author/Authors :
ÖZALAY-ŞANLI, EREN Boğaziçi University - Department of Political Science and International Relations, Turkey , ÖZALAY-ŞANLI, EREN Bahçeşehir University - Department of EU Studies, Turkey , CANDAŞ, AYŞEN Boğaziçi University - Department of Political Science and International Relations, Turkey
Abstract :
Research on nationalism, post-cold war changes that led to the proliferation of new identities and the ever interesting terrain of foreign policy have dominated the field of political science in general and international relations in particular for at least two decades. As the post-cold war political atmosphere has revealed itself, it has become apparent that the bipolar world that defined it is no longer a valid explanation for the future. Hence a quest for a new identity paradigm in an entirely transformed world of the new terrain of foreign policy has kept the scholars of political science busy in Turkey and at the international level. The search for alternative paradigms harvested original research that inquired into issues and areas that were untapped before. These have ranged from extensive discourse analysis of political texts to indicators of religiosity which depicted long forgotten dimensions of collective identity that leave behind and transcend the options of the previous era, i.e., being either part of the “communist” bloc or the “free” world.
