Doğancan Özsel, MA, Political science
dogancan.ozsel@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +420 775 353 336
Ongoing Works
Classifying Conservatisms
Work: Article to be submitted to the Journal of Political Ideologies.
Subject: A schematisation to comprehend the relations between different variants of conservatism.
Radical Conservatism and the Turkish Army
Work: Article written collaboratively with Hilal Onur İnce and Aysun Yaralı.
Subject: Conservative inclinations of the supposedly moderniser Turkish Army against the democratisation of Turkey through the membership process to the European Union.
Proposals
Turkish Conservatism: Burke in the Orient or Islamic Reactionism Misnamed?
Work: It is a postgraduate research project submitted to the funding scheme of the British Institute.
Subject: Projected research investigates the relationship between conservative ideology, as it is formulated by Burke in its classical form, and Turkish conservatism. It thus attempts to discern the theoretical foundations of Turkish conservatism, to clarify the extent of its intellectual links with the British conservatism and to offer some hints about the degree of peculiarity of the conservative ideology to the Western culture.