This book covers selected topics on contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy to understand and critically analyze the ideas, discourses, actors, processes and structures in the foreign policymaking. It provides the readers with a compilation of chapters on the critical analysis of Turkey's changing positionality and foreign policy identity. In doing so, it draws on the tools and perspectives offered by the critical theories and approaches in International Relations and relevant disciplines. Most of the chapters included in this project deal with the dramatic metamorphoses that took place in Turkish Foreign Policy during the period when the Justice and Development Party ruled and their ongoing consequences.

Birsen Erdogan is Lecturer of International Relations at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Fulya Hisarlioglu is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Kadir Has University, Turkey.

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Birsen Erdogan is Lecturer of International Relations at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Fulya Hisarlioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at Kadir Has University, Turkey.

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This book covers selected topics on contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) to understand and critically analyze the ideas, discourses, actors, processes and structures in the foreign policymaking. It provides the readers with a compilation of chapters on the critical analysis of Turkey's changing positionality and foreign policy identity. In doing so, it draws on the tools and perspectives offered by the critical theories and approaches in International Relations (IR) and relevant disciplines. Most of the chapters included in this project deal with the dramatic metamorphoses that took place in TFP during the period when the Justice and Development Party (JDP) ruled and their ongoing consequences.

Inhalt

CHAPTER I: TURKEY QUO VADIS?: DISCOURSES ON THE VITAL INTERESTS OF TURKISH STATES IN RETROSPECT.PART I: TURKEY IN THE WORLD ORDER(S)

CHAPTER II: COLONIALITY AND POSTCOLONIALITY IN THE ANALYSIS OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY.

CHAPTER III: RACIAL ORDERING IN THE WORLD: EUROPEAN MODERNITY, TURKISH LIMINALITY, AND AFRICAN AFFECTABILITY.

CHAPTER IV: UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE AND ROLE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE.

CHAPTER V: THE S-400 CRISIS: REORDERING THE TURKISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN A HEGEMONIC MASCULINE NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER VI: CHANGING HIERARCHY IN WORLD POLITICS: EXAMINATION OF TURKEY'S GROWING TIES WITH CHINA.

PART II: CONTOURS OF TURKEY'S FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY IDENTITY

CHAPTER VII: FOREIGN POLICY AS AN IDENTITY MARKER: TURKEY, THE EUROPEAN OTHER AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CONUNDRUM

CHAPTER VIII: CULTURE IN THE MAKING OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY: THREE LEVELS, ONE PERSPECTIVE.

CHAPTER IX: RELIGION, IDENTITY AND POWER: TURKEY AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

CHAPTER X: BANAL OTTOMANISM OR HAUNTING PHONEIX

CHAPTER XI: BABEL OF MEANINGS: TURKEY`S SYRIAN BORDER AND ITS DIVERSE ARTICULATIONS

CHAPTER XII: UNPACKING TURKEY'S UNILATERAL MILITARY INTERVENTIONS: LAW, POLITICS AND SECURITY IDENTITY.

CHAPTER XIII: SECURITISATION AND DESECURITISATION TRENDS IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY: TURKISH-GREEK RELATIONS AND THE CASE OF CYPRUS.