Daring and caution in Turkish strategic culture : republic at sea / Malik Mufti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mufti, Malik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic culture--Turkey.

Strategic culture.

Military policy.

Turkey--Military policy.

Turkey.

Turkey--Strategic aspects.

National security--Turkey.

National security.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"Malik argues that Turkeys security policy is dominated by an insular and risk-averse 'Republican' strategic culture paradigm, that this paradigm has fallen into crisis, bringing some of its core elements in conflict with others, and that this crisis has permitted the reassertion of a more cosmopolitan and risk-taking 'Imperial' counter-paradigm"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Taking Root

1 Imperial Legacies 9

Russian expansion 9

Western ambivalence 10

Domestic dysfunction 11

Into the inferno 14

2 Republican Foundations 17

Atatürk innovates: Peace at Home, Peace in the World 17

The CHP legislates: the Six Arrows 22

3 Cracks in the Edifice 29

The counter-paradigm surfaces 30

Domestic strains 36

External strains 41

Part II Taking Sail

4 Turgut Özal and the Gates of Desire 49

The TAF in crisis 50

Özal 58

Iraq (1990-1991) 65

Aftermath 80

Part III Floundering

5 The Years of Living Dangerously 87

Toward the open seas? 87

The second time as farce 93

Iraq 97

Iran 102

Syria and Israel 105

Turkey and Russia in the Caucasus: back to imperial competition? 109

The Balkans 118

6 Dead Ends 123

Dogmatic Islamism: the rise and fail of Necmettin Erbakan 123

Unbridled commercialism: Mesut Yilmaz 129

Indian summer: Bülent Ecevit's last term as prime minister 137

7 Paradigm Crisis 149

Identity politics returns 149

Iraq again 151

Strategic options 156

Democratic Islamism 164

Republican choices 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230236387

0230236383

OCLC:

459211362