Overseas implications of domestic norms

Abstract

The above chapters reviewed the post-Kemalist transformation in Turkey and in Turkey’s approach to “Outside Turks” communities. Since the main enquiry this book seeks to address is the impact that post-Kemalist Turkey has had on these communities, the question of how such an impact could be measured remains unanswered. This chapter, therefore, demonstrates how norms can be employed as a foreign policy analysis tool in examining and exploring the processes by which domestic changes have overseas influences and implications. The chapter initially reviews the role of norms and norm-guided practices in domestic change and foreign policy, and ultimately presents a foreign policy analysis framework capable of explaining all processes involved in the formation and conduct of a domestically initiated foreign policy with overseas constitutive influences. Norms became a subject of enquiry in the fields of sociology, economics and anthropology as a means to examine the behaviour governing social settings long...