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Issues | Turkey's Foreign Policy: Reform or Reset?
- Winter 2017 / Volume 19, Number 1
Turkey's Foreign Policy: Reform or Reset?
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Winter 2017
Turkey is located between some of the most penetrated and volatile regions in the world, namely the Middle East, the Balkans, Caucasia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Political and economic instability, historical and cultural problems, and the interference of global powers make it difficult for regional countries to pursue an independent foreign policy since these regions are among the main geographies used and sacrificed for the global power calculations.
Commentaries
2016 was a difficult year for the world; however, Turkey demonstrated her strength and resilience...
Turkey and Russia maintain close energy ties in spite of difficulties in other areas of their...
The reforming of Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans was a process that started at the end of...
In the aftermath of the victory by pro-Syrian government forces in Aleppo in December 2016, many...
Articles
In a time when our globalizing world is confronted by a deepening global turmoil, political...
This article argues that recent upheavals in Turkey’s domestic and regional dynamics – the...
This article analyzes the fluctuating course of the Turkey-U.S. relationship with a special focus...
Turkey adopted a new strategy for its European Union accession process in 2014, in an attempt to...
Energy relations between Turkey and Russia provide an excellent example of how energy and...
In the case of Turkey, competing foreign policy perspectives have always represented a central...
In this article, we present and reflect on the role of the Armed Forces in the reparation of the...
Review Article
Still Awaited: A Truly Objective History of the Making of the Modern Middle East
We are now witnessing a harvest of new history books on the making of the modern Middle East. Five are chosen for a critical review below. They are works by experts, well-researched and highly readable and infinitely more objective than the over-supply of Eurocentric or Orientalist books of the past. Yet, all four have limitations, lacking due Ottoman/Turkish/Arab/Muslim sentiment and “flavor.” The fifth on the Ottoman siege of Vienna is illuminating and relevant to the on-going debate on Turkey-EU relations. It, too, has its limitations
Book Reviews
A valuable book that helps to better understand the spiky path in the relations between Western...
This book is a result of collaboration between the two historians who deal with early-modern...
Late Ottoman intellectual history, especially the nineteenth century, was seen by Bernard Lewis...
Cathie Carmichael’s book integrated the political, economic and cultural history of Bosnia and...
With the rising new wave of religious-phobia in the world, understanding what lies behind the...
As of this writing in late February 2017, ISIS has lost much territory and financial capital...
As Barack Hussein Obama’s second term in the office finalized, one of the hottest debates about...
By effectively defining the war on terror rhetoric, this heritage of Bush to Obama becomes the...
In his book, Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin, William Zimmerman...
The recent rise in global food prices, China’s rise and its aggressive overseas agricultural...