Contemporary anti-westernism in Russia and Turkey: the comparative analysis of Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianism and Davutoğlu’s Neo-Ottomanism
https://doi.org/10.31249/poln/2023.02.13
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of features of anti-Western ideologies in the context of the crisis of the liberal order. It provides a comparative analysis of the ideas of the leading ideologists of Neo-Eurasianism and Neo-Ottomanism – Alexander Dugin and Ahmet Davutoğlu. As a response to the quest for new identities and status of Russia and Turkey in the new world order, Neo-Eurasianism and Neo-Ottomanism appeared after the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. Both Dugin and Davutoğlu developed their own concepts of geopolitics, identity and foreign policy as an alternative to the Western ones. Using the method of discourse analysis and examining the works of Dugin and Davutoğlu, the author sets to reveal the patterns of contemporary Anti-Westernism. As demonstrated in the article, Davutoğlu and Dugin strongly oppose Western hegemony and support a multipolar world order in which non-Western states and civilizations will be represented. The Anti-Western ideologies developed by them not only oppose the hegemony of the West, but also reject the values, principles and paradigm of the West. At the same time, while Dugin criticizes the values of liberalism and globalization and considers the US the antithesis of Eurasia, Davutoğlu, in contrast, opposes such European values as modernity, secularism, the Enlightenment, and also criticizes Western epistemology and philosophy.
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