A Systemic analysis of the cold war and Turkey‘s postwar drive to the west /

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Akdan, Tolgahan
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This thesis attempts to account for the primary dynamics behind Turkey’s postwar drive to the West. It offers a conceptualization of the Cold War as an inter-systemic conflict, which then enables this study to integrate the geopolitical relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union in a systemic framework. In this regard, it suggests that the geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and Turkey should be conceived of not as an “ontologically autonomous” ahistorical geopolitical tension but rather as a derivative of the Cold War as a wider systemic conflict. Therefore, this thesis explores the mainstream and radical approaches on the Cold War and tries to locate the geopolitical conflict between Turkey and the Soviet Union into framework of inter-systemic conflict and thus show the systemic character of Turkey’s drive to the Western alliance, which amounted to a profound socio-economic integration into the international capitalist system.
Cold War., World politics
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12617603/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23720
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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T. Akdan, “A Systemic analysis of the cold war and Turkey‘s postwar drive to the west /,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2014.
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