Turkey Faces East: New Orientations Toward the Middle East and the Old Soviet Union
Turkey Faces East: New Orientations Toward the Middle East and the Old Soviet Union

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 80

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This report explores the roots of Turkey's eastern orientation and the prospects for Turkish relations with the Middle East and former Soviet Union. The study finds that although Turkey has for years been at the geopolitical tail-end of Europe, it is now in the center of a newly emerging world. New relations to the south, east, and north are becoming increasingly vital to Ankara's interests. The study also finds that because U.S. interests in the region are less important with the end of the Cold War, U.S. influence over Turkey will probably be less. Still, the study recommends that because of the constructive role Turkey can play in the region, Turkey should be tied closely to the European Community and that effort should be taken to prevent a wall from emerging between "Christian" Europe and a Muslim Middle East--a wall that could intensify a North-South struggle in the decades ahead.

Turkey Faces East
Turkey Faces East

Author: Graham E. Fuller

Publisher:

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780833012944

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This report explores the roots of Turkey's eastern orientation and the prospects for Turkish relations with the Middle East and former Soviet Union. The study finds that although Turkey has for years been at the geopolitical tail-end of Europe, it is now in the center of a newly emerging world. New relations to the south, east, and north are becoming increasingly vital to Ankara's interests. The study also finds that because U.S. interests in the region are less important with the end of the Cold War, U.S. influence over Turkey will probably be less. Still, the study recommends that because of the constructive role Turkey can play in the region, Turkey should be tied closely to the European Community and that effort should be taken to prevent a wall from emerging between "Christian" Europe and a Muslim Middle East--a wall that could intensify a North-South struggle in the decades ahead.

Turkey and the US in the Middle East
Turkey and the US in the Middle East

Author: Gürcan Balik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1786720817

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Written by the former chief foreign policy advisor to the Turkish president and based on unprecedented access to official documents and communiques, this book gives the inside story of Turkish US relations from the first Gulf War, through debates on the Iraqi Kurdish question, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and into the present day. Using events in Iraq as the basis for a theoretical case study, Gurcan Balik argues that Turkey influenced US foreign policy on several key occasions, and that Turkish support was instrumental in the first intervention in Iraq. After Iraq's 1991 uprisings, however, Turkey's interests in the Middle East began to diverge from those of the US, and their relationship gradually deteriorated, evident in Turkey's refusal to open up its northern border to aid the US advance to Baghdad in 2003. Balik contends that an 'Iraq gap' then emerged, which has since had major implications for the Turkish economy and for the future of the Middle East.Turkey and the US in the Middle East contains hitherto unpublished primary source material, and is an essential addition to the scholarship of the period."

Turkey Between East And West
Turkey Between East And West

Author: Vojtech Mastny

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0429983042

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Linked by ethnic and religious affinities to two post-Cold War crisis areas—the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia—Turkey is positioned to play an influential role in the promotion of regional economic cooperation and in taking new approaches to security. In this book, experts from Turkey, Europe, and the United States address key aspects of Turkey

Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity
Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity

Author: Yucel Bozdaglioglu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1135941580

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By using the core insights of the constructivist approach in International Relations, this book analyzes the foreign policy behavior of Turkey. It argues that throughout its modern history, Turkey's foreign policy has been affected by its Western identity created in the years following the War of Independence.

Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xvi, 1992
Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xvi, 1992

Author: Ami Ayalon

Publisher: The Moshe Dayan Center

Published: 1994-12

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 9780813321332

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A number of contributors explore contemporary Middle East countries and look at how and if, they have moved forward. It looks at the rise of religious extremists and the Arab-Israeli peace process, stimulated by the change of government in Israel.

A Neoclassical Realist Approach to Turkey under JDP Rule
A Neoclassical Realist Approach to Turkey under JDP Rule

Author: Göktuğ Sönmez

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1527547523

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This book addresses the shift in Turkish foreign policy in the post-Cold War era from a neoclassical realist point of view. In its analysis of Turkey’s pursuit of ‘an activist grand strategy’, it focuses on the interplay between international and domestic factors. It puts forth its argument through analysis of Turkey’s bilateral relations with Iran, Israel and the European Union. It offers comprehensive examinations of international relations theory and neoclassical realism (NCR). The book not only makes sense of Turkish foreign policy under the JDP rule, but also provides a comprehensive analysis of NCR’s explanatory power. It will primarily appeal to scholars on Turkey, international relations theory, realism, and Middle Eastern politics and students studying these areas, as well as think-tankers, journalists and researchers.

The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies
The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies

Author: Kohei Imai

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1498524923

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This book is a comprehensive analysis of Turkish foreign policy through the concept of “middle power”. The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power identity based on liberal foreign policies, in order to illuminate the change in post-Cold War Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors. The author further explores state identity and how changes of circumstances, norms, state self-perception, and the perceptions of others effects that identity. This is done first through a policy analysis of Turgut Özal, Necmettin Erbakan and İsmail Cem and second through an examination of AKP’s foreign policy experiences and ideas, especially in relation to Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic
Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic

Author: Sylvia Kedourie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1135266980

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This collection examines the issues which - over the first 75 years of the Turkish Republic - have shaped, and will continue to influence, Turkey's foreign and domestic policy: the legacy of the Ottoman empire, the concept of citizenship, secular democracy, Islamicism and civil-military relations.