Approaches to Turkish Foreign Policy: A Critical Realist Analysis

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2014-01-02

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Yalvaç, Faruk

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This article analyses different approaches to Turkish foreign policy (TFP) from a critical realist perspective. It seeks to criticize positivist and post-positivist approaches to TFP, arguing for a non-reductionist, historical materialist approach based on the principles of critical realism. It argues that historical materialist approaches are missing both from the analysis of TFP and from the mainstream foreign-policy analysis in general. In emphasizing the importance of a historical materialist approach, the paper also underlines the importance of acknowledging the structural context of foreign policy-making as a complement to the agent-centric, micro-level analyses that dominate the mainstream TFP analysis. Finally, it advocates a research agenda that focuses on the development of a historical materialist approach to TFP.

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Political Science and International Relations, History

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37385

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TURKISH STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2014.892238

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Department of International Relations, Article

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F. Yalvaç, “Approaches to Turkish Foreign Policy: A Critical Realist Analysis,” TURKISH STUDIES, pp. 117–138, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37385.