Cascade of Post-Kemalist norms to Kosovo

Abstract

In the previous chapter, I showed the substantial role of identity politics in norm mobilisation. It is, moreover, identity politics which renders possible the norm cascade. Confirming this, the emergent post-Kemalist norms gained international mobility primarily through the post-Kemalist identity politics in Turkey’s foreign policy and Kosovo, a country with undisputed historical and cultural ties with Turkey, and one of the prime destinations of diffusion since the late 1990s. At this juncture, this chapter provides a detailed response to the second research question raised in the Introduction, namely “how are Turkey’s post-Kemalist domestic norms transferred to the Outside Turks locality in Kosovo? ” Kosovo, along with Bosnia, has attracted a great deal of attention in both official and societal levels in Turkey, particularly due to the bloodshed the country was exposed to throughout the 1990s, which ended up with Turkey, as part of NATO, intervening in 1999 and later sending...