Renda, Kadri Kaan
PhD European Studies
Email: kadri.renda@kcl.ac.uk
Thesis title: Change in Turkish Strategic culture during the EU accession process.
First supervisor: Dr Christoph Meyer
Second supervisor: Mr Bill Park
Kadri's doctoral research is funded by the Turkish Ministry of National Education.
Biography
Kadri was granted a 4-year scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education to do postgraduate studies in the UK.
Research
Kadri's thesis is devoted to investigating change in Turkish strategic culture, i.e. the adoption of new narratives, roles, and values. His thesis only focuses on understanding changing features of Turkish strategic culture rather than its influence on Turkey's policies. Hence, the main purpose is to put forward a analytical framework to account for the change in Turkish strategic culture druing the EU accession process. The main research question is that since the EU gave Turkey the candidacy status what kind of roles Turkish foreign policy elites have adopted and to what extent their beliefs and values about security and defence have changed at a time when Turkey’s neighbourhood is in a state of flux and its domestic politics is in a process of transformation.
Kadri is analysing the change in Turkish strategic culture by conducting a discourse analysis in three issue areas; i) new historical and geographical representations in strategic culture and the different uses of geopolitical arguments in debates about security and defence, ii) change in threat perceptions, iii) adoption of new roles and values. The main unit of analysis is the discourses of Turkish state elites which include top statesmen such as presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers as well as foreign policy bureaucracy and the military. He analyses the speeches given by these actors and also conducts interviews with two clusters of political elite.
Teaching
Kadri was a seminar tutor for the second year undergraduate course The integration of the European Union (5AAYEU03) during the 2010-11 academic year.
Publications
Articles
Turkey’s Neighborhood Policy: An Emerging Complex Interdependence?, Insight Turkey, Vol.13, No.1, 2011, pp.89-108.
Turkey’s Neighborhood Policy: An Emerging Complex Interdependence?, Insight Turkey, Vol.13, No.1, 2011, pp.89-108.
Book Reviews
Janne Haaland Matlary, European Union Security Dynamics: In the New National Interest (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), Journal of Global Analysis, Vol.1, No.2, August 2010.
Monica Gariup, European Security Culture: Language, Theory and Policy. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2008), Journal of Global Analysis, Vol.1 No.1, January 2010.
Conferences
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Strategies of Turkish Political Elites during the Accession Negotiations: Conformity or Deviance?, Paper Presented at the UACES 41st Annual Conference at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 5-7 September 2011.
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Learning New Roles and Changing Beliefs: Turkish Strategic Culture in Transition, paper presented at UACES Student Forum Conference, University of Surrey, 30 June-01 July 2011.30 June-01 July 2011.
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Learning New Roles and Changing Beliefs: Turkish Strategic Culture in Transition, paper presented at CES 18th International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June 2011.
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Turkey’s Neighbourhood Policy: Developing a World of Complex Interdependence?, paper presented at UACES 40th Annual Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 6-8 September 2010.
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Explaining the New Activism in Turkish foreign policy, paper presented at ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 30 August-1 September 2010.