Gürsel Tokmakoğlu | Vain Imperial Diagnosis: Israel's Coding of Turkey as an Empire and Its Regional-Global Counterpart
By Piri ·
Israel seeks legitimacy in domestic politics and vis-à-vis Washington by coding Turkey as an imperial actor. However, this diagnosis is analytically wrong; Turkey's instruments of influence differ from those of an empire. The real competition continues in Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Jerusalem.
Chapters
- Imperial Rhetoric
- The Function of Discourse
- The Test of Imperialism
- The Real Competition
- Regional Response
- Global Response
- The Source of Futility
- Conclusion
Adapted from Gürsel Tokmakoğlu.