Turkish foreign policy : New Concepts and Reflections

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Aktaş, Gülbahar Yelken
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Turkey has been in the process of taking its foreign policy position in the post-Cold War international schema. Through this process of adjustment, Turkish foreign policy has been developing new perspectives with new concepts. The objective of this thesis is to analyze these new concepts with its theoretical basics and reflections in policy formation. In this sense; traditional Turkish foreign policy, systemic changes behind the new foreign policy path, Strategic Depth Doctrine and new conceptual tools of Turkish foreign policy are the topics covered along the chapters. Turkish foreign policy has a new conceptual and theoretical frame, which could not be fully tested and ultimate policy results could not be observed. In this thesis, new concepts are analyzed as a contribution to Turkish Foreign Policy literature, within a descriptive methodology.
International relations., Turkey
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612869/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20242
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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G. Y. Aktaş, “Turkish foreign policy : New Concepts and Reflections,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.
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