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Insight Turkey > Issues | Turkey’s Grand Strategy - Fall 2021 / Volume 23 Number 4

Turkey’s Grand Strategy



Editor's Notes


Editor's Note | Fall 2021
With one more year coming to an end, we are pleased to present to our readers yet another insightful issue of Insight Turkey that has attempted to bring a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s grand strategy and highlight its current regional and international role and status. Hopefully, this issue will provide the foothold for all those interested in defining Turkey’s grand strategy. We are looking forward to providing you with more next year!


Commentaries


The Evolutionary Feature of Turkey’s Soft Power in the Middle East, 2011-2020
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The Turkey-Africa Bromance: Key Drivers, Agency, and Prospects
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The Muslim Brotherhood Faultline in Saudi-Qatari Relations: Domestic Divisions and Regional Rivalry
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How Algeria-Turkey Ambitious Strategic Rapprochement Will Affect France’s Sahel Policy?
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Unveiling the Unseen: The Role of the Gulf over the Sudanese Transition Period
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Articles


Exploring the Traits of a Grand Strategy for Turkey: Resilience, Protean Power, and Connectography
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Russia’s Policy During the 44-Day Karabakh War
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The Turkey-UK Free Trade Agreement in Terms of Economic Diplomacy
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The Washington Agreement: A Supplementary Document to the EU Efforts in Kosovo?
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Turkey’s Strategic Conduct under the Changing International System
This article analyzes how Turkey should adjust its grand strategy under the changing...

Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers
How compatible is Turkey’s grand strategy with the grand strategies of global great powers? This...


Review Article


Understanding Eurasia in Multiple Perspectives
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Book Reviews


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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals about Our Future
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Whatever Happened to the Third World? A History of the Economics of Development
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Al-Quds: History, Religion, and Politics
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China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power
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Modern Geopolitics of Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons in an Age of Energy Transformation
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Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
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The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations
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