author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorThe Arab world has been making a new history since January 2011 when the uprisings against President Ben Ali resulted in his fleeing from Tunisia. Throughout 2011, the decades-old rule of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Moammar Qaddafi in Libya ended.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/ramazan-kilinc/the-arab-revolution-ten-lessons-from-the-democratic-uprisinghttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/ramazan-kilinc/the-arab-revolution-ten-lessons-from-the-democratic-uprisingMon, 01 Oct 2012 14:27:00 GMTauthorThis article asks why Turkey recently adopted the emerging international norm of inter-civilizational dialogue as one of its foreign policy priorities. In addressing this question, we turn first to an assessment of the limitations of normative and realist arguments, then suggest that the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) considerations of domestic political survival were necessary factors in the adoption of inter-civilizational dialogue, even though in and of themselves, they were not sufficient. The AK Party government, circumscribed by the secularist establishment, strategically adopted the norm of inter-civilizational dialogue to create a legitimate space for its survival in Turkey’s domestic political sphere. This conclusion stems from the theoretical finding that in those states in which political power is not concentrated in the government, the domestic political considerations of the government gain priority in foreign policymaking.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/ramazan-kilinc/turkey-and-the-alliance-of-civilizations-norm-adoption-as-a-survival-strategyhttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/ramazan-kilinc/turkey-and-the-alliance-of-civilizations-norm-adoption-as-a-survival-strategyWed, 01 Jul 2009 13:35:18 GMT