Doğancan Özsel, MA, Political science
dogancan_ozsel@yahoo.com
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.

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 the 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.