This book offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives in a period of global power shifts. By examining international and national historical processes, the author highlights narrative processes and traditions that describe Turkey and its position in world politics. He also analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's increasingly active and confusing foreign policy and the narratives associated with it. The book covers topics such as Kemalist modernization, Islamic conservative views of the New World Order, Turkey's relations with non-Western countries such as Russia and China, and Turkish narratives of the Syrian war and the COVID-19-pandemic. It is intended for scholars of international relations and European and Middle Eastern politics, and appeals to anyone interested in Turkish history and politics.

Offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives Analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's position in the world Contextualizes Turkish Narratives of the Syrian War

Autorentext

Toni Alaranta is a senior research fellow in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. His fields of interest are Turkish history and foreign policy, international relations, and political ideologies. His main publications concentrate on Kemalism, Turkish transformation and Turkish foreign policy in the changing world. Alaranta has published several books and dozens of articles on Turkey and Turkey-West relations, and he is a frequent commentator of current affairs in Finnish and international media.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Global Power Shift and Liberalism.- Chapter 3. Turkey and the Liberal Philosophy of History.- Chapter 4. Nationalism and the Meaning of Modernization.- Chapter 5. Interpreting the Liberal International Order.- Chapter 6. Approaching the Non-West: Russia and China.- Chapter 7. Narratives of the Syrian War and the Pandemic.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.