Conceptual and Theoretical Outline * Ottoman Origins of Turkish Identity Discourses * Kemalist Nationalism and Foreign Policy Isolationism (1923-1950) * Liberal Reorientation of Turkish Foreign Policy: Pro-Western Assertiveness (1950-1960) * Foreign Policy in the Shadow of Military Interventions (1960-1980) * Searching for a Post-Cold War Identity: 1983-2002 * Turkey under the AKP: An Emerging Power in the Age of Globalization
Conceptual and theoretical outline -- Ottoman origins of Turkish identity discourses -- Kemalist nationalism and foreign policy isolationism (1923-1950) -- Liberal reorientation of Turkish foreign policy : pro-western assertiveness (1950-1960) -- Foreign policy in the shadow of military interventions (1960-1980) -- Searching for a post-cold war identity, 1983-2002 -- Turkey under the AKP : an emerging power in the age of globalization
Summary
This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity affects its foreign policy throughout different its recent history since the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach in asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from statist approaches by bringing identity question into domestic politics. The book argues that modern Turkish foreign policy is a product of ideological struggles that have been produced by historical memory and evolved over time
