Worldviews and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East

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2009-03-01

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Altunışık, Meliha

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Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East has become highly contested in the last two decades. The changes in the international and domestic environment have led to the emergence of competing ideas as to the elements of Turkish foreign policy in this region. This article argues that these ideas ultimately represent worldviews as they start with different assumptions about what Turkey is, what the basis of Turkey's interest and involvement should be in this region, to what extent Turkey should engage the Middle East, and what the threats and/or opportunities emanating from the region are. Each of these worldviews has been institutionalized to some extent. I conclude that these worldviews continue to co-exist and compete with each other in Turkish foreign policy today.

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Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkey In The Middle East, World-Views

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56022

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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY

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Department of International Relations, Article

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M. Altunışık, “Worldviews and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East,” NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY, pp. 169–192, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56022.