Talk:
\n\u201cStatism in Early Republican Turkey: An International Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n
by
\nAsst. Prof. Samuel J. Hirst
\nDepartment of International Relations
\nBilkent University
\nsamhirst@bilkent.edu.tr<\/p>\n
Date and Room Info:
\nWednesday, November 20, 2024, 15:30 p.m.
\nA-130<\/p>\n
Abstract:<\/p>\n
This talk draws on Sam Hirst\u2019s new book, Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), to reflect on a central subject in the history of the early Turkish Republic. In the 1930s, statism became a global phenomenon, and much of it\u2014from the Ankara government\u2019s first five-year plan to Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal\u2014was influenced by Soviet planning. Equally, however, Turkish elites drew on their own traditions of statist political economy, a history that dated back to the Ottoman period. This talk asks how an international perspective can (and cannot) contribute to our understanding of the history of statism defined in national, Turkish terms.<\/p>\n
Short Biography<\/p>\n
Sam Hirst is assistant professor in Bilkent\u2019s department of international relations. His published work focuses on the history of international cooperation in the twentieth century and has covered subjects ranging from the Soviet Union\u2019s establishment of diplomatic ties with Afghanistan in the 1920s and Soviet-Turkish cinematographic cooperation on the 1934 film, Ankara\u2013The Heart of Turkey, to Vedat Dalokay\u2019s 1975 visit to Moscow in search of funding for Ankara\u2019s metro. His book, Against the Liberal Order, offers a new interpretation of Soviet-Turkish relations in the interwar period, using the history of bilateral interactions to address the way that competing internationalisms have shaped modern world politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talk: \u201cStatism in Early Republican Turkey: An International Perspective\u201d by Asst. Prof. Samuel J. Hirst Department of International Relations Bilkent University samhirst@bilkent.edu.tr Date and Room Info: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 15:30 p.m. A-130 Abstract: This talk draws on Sam Hirst\u2019s new book, Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, [\u2026] <\/p>\n