Analyzing foreign policy crises in Turkey : conceptual, theoretical and practical discussions / edited by Fuat Aksu and Helin Sarı Ertem.

This collection explores foreign policy crises and the way the states/leaders deal with them. Being at the juncture of a highly sensitive political zone, consisting of the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia, the Republic of Turkey has been the subject of various foreign policy crises since its foundation. These political, military, economic or humanitarian crises were triggered either by the states themselves or by the NGOs and armed non-state actors. By examining literature in the field of foreign policy crises literature, this volume scrutinizes some of the most prominent Turkish foreign policy crises. Among these, there are protracted crises such as that of Cyprus and the Aegean Sea; a humanitarian one such as the 1989 migration of the Bulgarian Turks; an NGO-triggered crisis, such as the Mavi Marmara Confrontation; and an ongoing case such as the Syrian civil war. Looking at these crises from various aspects, the text sheds light on whether, or how, the reactions of the Turkish ruling elite change while trying to manage these crises. The book is a timely contribution to literature in the field of Politics and International Relations and will be useful to academics, diplomats and historians interested in foreign policy crises in general and Turkish foreign policy crises in particular.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assessing the Turkish foriegn policy crises and crisis management in the Republican era / Fuat Aksu and Helin Sari Ertem -- An integrated model proposal for analysing Turkish foreign policy crises / Aydin Sihmantepe -- Neoclassical realism, the limits of analysis and international relations theory / Ümran Gürses -- Turkey's protracted foreign policy conflicts: Cyprus and Aegean crises / Fuat Aksu and Süleyman Güder -- Insights of the Mavi Marmara confrontation: analysing the Turkish crisis management process / Tuğçe Kafdağh Koru -- Reflections of beliefs and worldviews of the Turkish ruling elite on the Syria crisis / Helin Sari Ertem -- A humanitarian foreign policy crisis: the 1989 migration of the Bulgarian Turks / Zehra Gürsoy -- Border security in Turkish foreign policy crises / Laçin Idil Öztiğ -- If the crisis is what we make of it: Turkey and the uprisings in Syria / Gencer Özcan -- Non-state actors in Turkish foreign policy crises / Ayse Küçük.

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