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Title

Turkey's new world : changing dynamics in Turkish foreign policy / edited by Alan Makovsky and Sabri Sayari.

Publication

Washington, DC : Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Makovsky, Alan, 1950-
• Sayarı, Sabri.

Description

xii, 234 pages; 26 cm

Summary

During the long Cold War era, Turkish foreign policy was restricted to just a few basic, if difficult and crucial, questions: how to ward off the Soviet threat, how to protect Turkish interests vis-à-vis Greece and Cyprus, and how to maintain and strengthen ties with the United States and NATO. Slightly less pressing but still important were questions of how to further Turkeyʹs integration with Western Europe and, during the latter part of the Cold War, how to defend against terrorism supported by neighbors like Syria, Iraq, and Iran. These issues were problematic, rendered more complicated in combination. As the U.S. arms embargo of Turkey in the mid-1970s bears witness, managing relations with Cyprus and Aegean rival Greece while building bilateral ties with Washington were goals not always easily reconciled. Turkeyʹs foreign policy challenges during the Cold War were high-risk, posing existentially threatening dangers, even in addition to the threat of nuclear annihilation shared by all NATO allies. Thousands of Turks died in political violence and terrorism in the late 1970s, with Turkey apparently targeted for destabilization by the Soviets.

Subject

• Since 1980
• 89.90 foreign policy
• International economic relations
• Diplomatic relations
• Außenpolitik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Buitenlandse politiek
• Geschichte 1980-2000
• Turkey > Foreign relations > 1980-
• Turkey > Foreign economic relations
• Turkey
• Türkei
• Turquie > Relations extérieures
• Turquie > Relations économiques extérieures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Reflections on the Ataturkist origins of Turkish foreign policy and domestic linkages / Andrew Mango -- Economic issues in Turkish foreign policy / William Hale -- Turkey and the Muslim Middle East / Kemal Kirişçi -Turkish policy toward Israel / Meliha Benli Altunişik -- Turkish policy toward the Balkans / Şule Kut -- Turkish-Russian relations : from adversity to 'virtual rapprochement' / Duygu Bazoglu Sezer -- Turkish policy toward central Asia and the Transcaucus / Gareth M. Winrow -- Turkish policy toward Greece / Tozun Bahcheli -- Turkey and the Cyprus question / Clement H. Dodd -- Turkey and the European Union in the post-Cold War era / Atila Eralp -- U.S. -- Turkish relations / George S. Harris -- Beyond 'bridge or barrier' : Turkey's evolving security relations with the West / Ian O. Lesser.

ISBN

• 0944029434
• 9780944029435

LCCN

00043711

OCLC

• ocm44669432
• 44669432
• SCSB-1232675

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library