MAKING OF THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL PARTNERSHIP: TURKEY-SYRIA RELATIONS BETWEEN 2003 AND 2011

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This thesis attempts to analyze the exceptionally friendly relations and the multidimensional partnership between traditionally hostile neighbors Turkey and Syria between 2003 and 2011, which was forged by the political leaderships. Dynamic interplay between political-economic factors and foreign policy making is discussed throughout the thesis. Utilizing conjuncture approach, the thesis takes into consideration ideational dimension and regional and international political context. The thesis mainly employs concepts and frameworks of the traditions of Historical Sociology and Historical Materialism in an effort to demonstrate that the partnership of Syria and Turkey is socially constructed and constituted in its specific historical process. It is argued that, social and political-economic transformations towards neoliberalism, taken place simultaneously in Turkey and Syria in 2000s, had constitutive ramifications on foreign policies of both countries. Thus, foreign policies had, inter alia, social determinants and social origins

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Syria, Multidimensional Partnership, Turkey

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M. Turgut, “MAKING OF THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL PARTNERSHIP: TURKEY-SYRIA RELATIONS BETWEEN 2003 AND 2011,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.