Identity Appeals and Foreign Policy: A Study of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey and Russia

• In Event: Identity, Nationalism, and Displacement

Brief Overview

Why and when do autocrats engage in identity politics at conducting foreign policy? We argue that autocrats turn to foreign policy to reorient their respective nation’s identity, raise political legitimacy and popularize their rule.

Authors

• Burcu F. Degirmen, Independent Scholar

• Alperen Atik, Europa Universitaet Flensburg