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This book offers an analysis of Turkish foreign policy based on transnational(ist) perspectives. In order to counterbalance the state-centric accounts that dominate this area of study, the authors provide theoretical frameworks as well as historical and contemporary case studies that emphasize transnational dynamics. The content is divided into four complementary sections that explain and exemplify transnational (f)actors in the context of Turkish foreign policy. The first addresses theoretical and ideational frameworks that illustrate the relevance of a transnational account, while the second demonstrates the possibility of developing transnationally oriented approaches even in historical cases, going beyond a presentist focus. In the third and fourth sections, the book focuses on two prominent non-state actors, namely diaspora communities and non-governmental organizations, which operate at the interstices of the domestic and the international. This allows the authors to highlight the significance of transnational dynamics in Turkey's foreign policy.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Transcending the State: A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy.- Part I. Ideas on Turkish Transnationalism: Theory, Practice, and Intellectual Currents.- Chapter 2. Transnationalized Accounts of Turkish Foreign Policy.- Chapter 3. Transnationality, Foreign Policy Research and the Cosmopolitan Alternative: On the practice of Domestic Global Politics.- Chapter 4. Imperial Transnationalism: Turkish Middle East-Oriented Foreign Policy Expert Apparatus (1998-2011).- Part II. Transnationalism in Turkish Diplomacy: A Historical Account.- Chapter 5. Transnational Issues, Non-Governmental Organizations and the Genesis of Modern Turkish Diplomacy.- Chapter 6. The Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) in Turkish Foreign Policy: A Case of "Accidental Diaspora" and Kin-State Politics.- Part III. Asset or Liability? Diasporas and Transnational Communities in Turkish Foreign Policy.- Chapter 7. Turkey and Syrian Turkmens in the "New Middle East Cold War": A CriticalView from the Kin-State.- Chapter 8. Constructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey's New Diaspora Strategy.- Chapter 9. Jews from Turkey in Israel and Cultural Diplomacy (1996-2006).- Part IV. NGOs as Transnational Actors in the Formation and Implementation of Turkish Foreign Policy.- Chapter 10. "Humanitarianism" Transformed? Analyzing the Role of Transnational Humanitarian NGOs in Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 2000s.- Chapter 11. Business Actors as Holders of Transnational Relations: What role for them in Turkish Foreign Policy?.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.
About the author
Hazal Papuççular is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey. She completed her Ph.D. in Modern Turkish History at Bogaziçi University's Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and has written several books, articles and book chapters on Turkish foreign policy. She is the author of
Türkiye ve Oniki Ada (1912-1947) (Türkiye Is Bankasi Yayinlari, 2019) and is currently focusing on Turkey's transnational diplomatic history.
Deniz Kuru is a Lecturer of Political Science at Goethe Universität Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His current research areas include the intellectual history and sociology of International Relations, German and French foreign policies, Turkey's global position, global intellectual history and global International Relations. He has published articles in
Review of International Studies,
International Relations,
All Azimuth,
Global Affairs and
Mediterranean Politics. 
