The Middle East as a regional security complex: continuities and changes in Turkish foreign policy under the JDP rule

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Vural, Ebru

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This thesis aims to contribute to the debates on the Justice and Development Party (JDP) era Turkish foreign policy by putting Turkey into the regional security complex theory and examines changes and continuities of Turkey’s traditional cautious, relatively “passive” role and “relative indifference” stance towards the Middle East security complex. Hence, the framework of analysis is the regional security complex theory, attributed roles and role changes of Turkey within regional security complexes. This study, with a historical perspective and within the framework of the regional security complex theory, questions continuities and changes in the JDP period Turkish foreign policy, and comes to the conclusion that in the JDP era, Turkey’s role is going beyond the insulator state function to the “interface logic” which adopts a loose form of geographical boundaries.

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Turkey, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20546

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E. Vural, “The Middle East as a regional security complex: continuities and changes in Turkish foreign policy under the JDP rule ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.