Turkey and the Liberal International Order

Hegemony, Contestation and the Politics of Articulation since 1919

Marc Sinan Winrow

• Publisher: Agenda Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781788217392
• eBook ISBN: 9781788217415
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Turkey has always had a complicated relationship with the West and the Liberal International Order, owing to its geographic and historical position that straddles geographic divides.

This book explores Turkey's relationship with the Liberal International Order and its economic, security and political ties. While Turkey's position within the Liberal International Order has always been challenged internally and externally, events in recent years have resulted in further questioning of its position. This book provides a long-term view of Turkey's relation to liberal internationalism, demonstrating how the republic emerged simultaneously with the emergence of the first post-First World War version of liberal international order. It demonstrates both the challenges and the opportunities that Turkey's position within and outside liberal internationalism poses to the future of such forms of liberal internationalism. Crucially, it demonstrates how Turkey's foreign policy stances are and will likely continue to be closely linked to political developments within the country.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Map
• Introduction
• 1. Emergence and articulation: Turkey’s national interest and the two postwar liberal international orders, 1919–60
• 2. Between autonomy and alliance: Turkey’s foreign policy and the liberal international order from the start of the Cold War to the end of détente, 1960–80
• 3. Redefining alignment: Turkey in the liberal international order from the “Second Cold War” to the post-Cold War road to European candidacy, 1980–99
• 4. From crisis to transformation: Turkey, the liberal international order and the challenge of hegemony since 2000
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• References
• Index