Turkey has been challenged to adjust to several global and regional developments in
shaping its foreign policy: the end of the Cold War; secondly, a geopolitical shift in focus by …

Since the inception of the independent and modern Turkish Republic, in line with the
western principles of its founding father Ataturk and those who followed in his absence, the …

Acknowledging the necessity of making critical analyses and research in foreign policy, the
authors who contributed to this volume titled Critical Readings of Turkey's Foreign Policy …

This study aims to investigate first whether Turkey fits into a middle power status and second
the tools and mechanisms it uses to pursue its middle power diplomacy at both regional and …

This article argues that the increasing emphasis of civilization in Turkish foreign policy
discourse fundamentally affected Turkey's criticism of the current international order. Political …

by George Dyson and Yasemin Gülsüm Acar key goal of Turkish foreign policy, spanning
back decades, has been to become a major power in its own right regionally and …

The end of the Cold War meant the end of the 'buffer state'identity of Turkish foreign policy–
an identity which was based mainly on the geopolitical position of Turkey in world politics …

Since the beginning of the 21st century, both theoretical and empirical scholarship has
demonstrated the strong links between international politics and changes in states' domestic …

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 …