This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach, asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from statist approaches by bringing identity question into domestic politics.

Autorentext
HASAN KÖSEBALABAN is Assitant Professor of Politics at Lake Forest College, near Chicago, USA.

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Contested National Identity and Foreign Policy: In Search for Theory Historical Emergence of Turkey's Contested National Identity Identity and Turkish Foreign Policy during the Cold War The Quest for Turkish National Identity after the Cold War Turkish Foreign Policy under the AK Party: The Central Power Discourse