Metamorphosis of Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

As Turkey's regional and global roles and influence growth, this volume provides a critical understanding of how the current Turkish foreign policy within the "Enterprising and Humanitarian Framework" operates in practice to achieve Turkey's foreign policy ambitions.

The fading of the post-WWII order called for Turkey to take on a new role in this new multi-centred and multipolar era with new players emerging from different regions. The new Enterprising and Humanitarian Foreign Policy is an effort to locate Turkey better in the 21st global politics. While the literature on principles of Turkish foreign policy is abundant, the actual mechanisms by which these principles are implemented in practice are still ambiguous to most scholars and foreign policy practitioners especially within the country's newly developed Turkish foreign policy framework. This edited volume therefore aims to shed light on this little-explored aspect of Turkish foreign policy. By critically analyzing several cases from different geographical locations, this volume explains why Turkey developed a new foreign policy framework, and by which mechanisms this new foreign policy framework has been implemented around the world. This volume also critically explores how the new Turkish foreign policy framework customizes its tools and capacities in different geographical regions around the world.

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Preface. Nergiz Özkural Köroğlu, Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Theoretical Framework

Chapter 1. Theorizing Turkey’s Enterprising and Humanitarian Foreign Policy, H. Burç Aka

Chapter 2. Understanding Continuity and Change in Turkish Foreign Policy: A Political Economy Perspective, Beyza Tekin, Rıfat Barış Tekin

Part 2: Turkey’s Relations with Great Powers

Chapter 3. Last Twenty Years of Turkish-American Relations in the Shade of Crises, Ali Burak Darıcılı

Chapter 4. Quest for Regional Hegemony: The Russian Vector in Turkish Foreign Policy, Huseyin Oylupinar

Chapter 5. Turkey’s China Policy in the 21st Century within the Scope of Asia Anew, Nurettin Akçay

Chapter 6. The Impact of EU-Turkey Relations on Turkey’s Migration Policies: 2000-2021, Ayşegül Balta Özgen

Part 3: Conflict Areas

Chapter 7. Turkey’s Mediation Initiatives in the Middle East: Continuity and Change, Doğan Demirkıran, Ali Faik Demir

Chapter 8. Keeping Status Quo in the Black Sea: Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Ukraine, Nergiz Özkural Köroğlu, Fatih Özgüven

Chapter 9. Türkiye's New Enterprising and Humanitarian Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus, Serdar Yılmaz

Chapter 10. The Second Karabakh War and its Results in the Context of the Changing Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy, Havva Kök Arslan, Elmin Aliyev

Chapter 11. Turkey-Iran Security Relations: Common Enemies and Opposing Ambitions, Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Chapter 12. Turkey’s Challenges in Changing Energy Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel and Greece, Tolga Erdem

Chapter 13. Turkey and Serbia: A New Era in Relations, Emirhan Kaya

Part 4: New Ventures

Chapter 14. Striving for Independence in the Defense Industry: Traces of the Indonesian-Turkish Partnership in the 21st Century, Muhammad Syaroni Rofii

Chapter 15. Refueling Turkish Foreign Policy Activism Towards Latin America: Economic Ties and Political Cooperation Between Turkey and Venezuela, Selin Karana

Chapter 16. Diaspora Diplomacy in Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey, Damla Bayraktar Aksel

Chapter 17. Türkiye and Africa Relations: How to Define Foreign Policy in Terms of Continuity and Change, Hakan Aydın

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