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Nora Fisher Onar


Publications

The Changing Landscape of the Arab World and Implications for the EU and TurkeyNovember 15, 2012

This policy brief summarizes discussions from a recent workshop with participants from the EU, Turkey, the United States, and the Middle East.

Turkey’s Transformation and Its Future Influence: A Critical LinkOctober 18, 2012

This policy brief looks at how Turkey is responding to domestic and international pressures.

Neo Ottomanism, Historical Legacies, and Turkish Foreign PolicyNovember 03, 2009

This paper explored the sources of and patterns associated with a growing propensity on the part of some Turks to "confront the past." It suggested that in so doing, they are seeking torewrite national identity, and by extension, foreign policy. Broadly, they challenge three aspects of the national project as it was conceived in the 1920s-the unitary pillar of national identity, the strict interpretation of secularism, and the paradoxically Western yet anti-Western anchor of identity and policy. When challengers' agendas converge they may form ad hoc coalitions, as appears to be the case with liberal and moderate Islamists' readings ofthe Armenian question and neo-Ottomanism.