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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.
List of contents
1. Why Critical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis?.- Part I. Turkey in the Modern International.- 2. Turkey and the Colonial/Modern International.- 3. A Critical Geopolitical Reading of Turkish Foreign Policy.- 4. (Geo) Culture in the Making of Turkish Foreign Policy: Three Levels, One Perspective.- Part II. Turkey's Imagined Communities/Geographies.- 5. Mapping Africa: Cartographies of Imagination and Intervention in Turkey.- 6. Understanding the Place of the Global South within Turkey's View of World Order.- 7. The Momentary Glory of Banal Ottomanism.- Part III: Articulating New and Old 'Friends'.- 8. Turkey-China Rapprochement: Turkey's Reconstruction of Its Liminality?.- 9. Friendship, Leadership and Hegemonic Masculinity: An Interpersonal Relationship between Turkey and Russia.- 10. Turkey's Relations with the EU from a Critical Perspective: From Europhilism to anti-Europeanism (2002-2021).- Part IV. Limbo of (In)Security.- 11. Turkish-Greek Relations after the Cold War: Changing Dynamics of Securitisation and Desecuritization.- 12. Making Sense of Turkey's Unilateral Military Interventions: Identity, Interests and Security.- 13. International Interventions and Turkish Foreign Policy Discourses Regarding Libya and Syria.- 14. Conclusions Drawn from Critical Readings of Turkey`s Foreign Policy.
About the author
Birsen Erdöan is Lecturer of International Relations at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Fulya Hisarl¿ölu is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Kadir Has University, Turkey.
Report
"Critical Readings of Turkey's Foreign Policy is certainly the fruit of a wellthought through and diligently executed project by its editors, Birsen Erdogan and Fulya Hisarlioglu, and contributors. Bringing together a variety of critical approaches, bridging different research methodologies, and theoretical frameworks, this book is a timely addition to the International Relations (ir) discipline in Turkey and beyond." (Zeynep Alemdar, European Review of International Studies ERIS, Issue 10, 2023)
