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
Today, soft power plays an important role in advancing states’ foreign policy goals. As one of...
Turkish-African relations have consistently exhibited strong growth since Ankara declared 2005 as...
The commentary argues the Saudi-Qatari tensions lie in conflicting perspectives about the role of...
President Macron did decide to withdraw French troops from the Sahel last summer, leaving only...
Sudan, an African-Arab country, has in recent years been witnessing the political transformation...
Articles
The international system is experiencing profound changes and has taken on an uncertain character...
In this article, the rise of China is discussed in the light of economic and military data, and...
The 44-day Karabakh War seriously affected the international balances in the Caucasus in terms of...
This article scrutinizes relations between economic diplomacy and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) by...
This paper analyzes the Washington Agreement (WA) in the context of European Union (EU) efforts...
This study focuses on Turkey as a rising drone power in the international arena in recent years....
Evaluating Turkey-Russia relations is a dilemma, as the two countries fluctuate between...
This article analyzes how Turkey should adjust its grand strategy under the changing...
How compatible is Turkey’s grand strategy with the grand strategies of global great powers? This...
Review Article
Understanding Eurasia in Multiple Perspectives
The three works reviewed in this article address Eurasia in different periods and different areas of concentration. Each one provides valuable information in understanding the historical and political developments that have affected the Eurasian landmass. Understanding this huge geography, its people, its past and present situation requires a holistic approach with detailed knowledge and awareness of regional peculiarities.
Book Reviews
In this book, Madsen assesses the economic policies of the military governments established in...
Refugia is a utopian fiction, as its authors emphasize. By blurring the distinction between...
How Democracies Die is an explicit account of carefully arranged historical facts about the...
The book is very well organized and divided into seven chapters. In his detailed and...
Al-Quds: History, Religion, and Politics makes a great contribution to understanding the latest...
China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power demonstrates how China has projected power and...
Modern Geopolitics of Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons in an Age of Energy Transformation...
The edited book presents multiple perspectives and a coherent research agenda characterized by an...
The book provides a much-needed disruption in the discipline of IR, whose hegemonic nature too...
Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood contribute much to the debate on...