
Identity and Turkish Foreign Policy
The Kemalist Influence in Cyprus and the Caucasus
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Most analysts agree that Turkey's foreign policy is essentially peaceful, using diplomacy and multilateralism in the resolution of its conflicts with other states. Here, Umut Uzer offers a necessary corrective to this standard analysis by revealing the Kemalist influence in Turkey's state ideology. This defined the identity of the state as Turkish, resulting in responsibilities towards Turks residing beyond its borders, and a more engaged foreign policy that ranged from declarations of support for ethnic kin outside Turkey to outright takeover of territory. Focusing on the annexation of Hatay from Syria in 1939, Turkey's involvement in Cyprus culminating in a military operation in 1974 and its policy toward the Karabagh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the 1990s, "Identity and Turkish Foreign Policy" is indispensable for all those interested in Middle East politics and international relations as well as Turkey more specifically.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction: The Role of Ideas and Interests in Turkish Foreign Policy
- 1. State Identity and Foreign Policy: The Impact of Ideas and Power
- 2. The Three Paths of Turkish Nationalism and Kemalist State Identity
- 3. Turkish Foreign Policy Analysis
- 4. The Annexation of Hatay: Exception or Harbinger of Future Policy?
- 5. Turkey's National Cause: Cyprus in Turkish Foreign Policy
- 6. The Karabagh Issue and the Emergence of the Turkic World
- Conclusion: Competing Interests and Identities in Turkish Politics
- Bibliography
- Index