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Turkey's entente with Israel and Azerbaijan : state identity and security in the Middle East and Caucasus / Alexander Murinson.
Van Pelt Library JZ1649.A57 T95 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murinson, Alexander.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 19.
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Security, International.
- International relations.
- Turkey--Foreign relations--Israel.
- Turkey.
- Israel--Foreign relations--Turkey.
- Israel.
- Turkey--Foreign relations--Azerbaijan.
- Azerbaijan--Foreign relations--Turkey.
- Azerbaijan.
- National security--Turkey.
- National security.
- Security, International--Middle East.
- Security, International--Caucasus.
- Caucasus.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- x, 219 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- 1 The entente of Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan: a new type of alliance in the post-Cold War era 1
- Introduction: the tripartite entente 1
- The blind men and the elephant: identity politics, transnationalism and security as factors in international relations in the post-Cold War era 4
- Review of chapters 7
- 2 State identities as building blocks of the relationship, 1992-9 9
- Introduction: the return of identity 9
- The garrison-states 12
- Like-minded or "Westernistic" states 21
- Secular states: an overview 28
- Constitutionally nationalist states 30
- Lonely states 37
- Conclusion: aspiring states 40
- 3 The military-security stranglehold: state agents as drivers of the triple entente 42
- Introduction: the role of the military-security apparatus 42
- The role of the Turkish and Israeli military-security apparatus in the entente 43
- The role of the Turkish army and Israeli security apparatus in the Turkish-Israeli-Azerbaijani strategic relationship 56
- 4 Foreign policy and its discontents in the age of globalization: informal networks and transnational levers 62
- Introduction: informal networks in the networked world: state agent drivers and non-state levers 62
- From tanks to think tanks: the Jewish connection 63
- The meeting place for new concepts: epistemic communities in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Israel 82
- Impact of transnational corporations: BP, Merhav, Magal and Bateman Litwin 85
- 5 The heart of entente: the security dimension of the relationship 93
- Introduction: common threat perceptions 93
- Structural change and new challenges 96
- History of the post-Cold War entente 97
- The shared threats of the 1990s 100
- The hour of dire need: the impact of the revolution in military technology on the formation of entente 105
- Conclusions 113
- 6 Fluctuating zones of influence: involution of the alignment, 2000-5 115
- Introduction: identities and counter-identities 115
- Islamism in Turkey 116
- Azerbaijan: the frail democracy 123
- Right-wing Messianism in Israel and the United States 133
- Conclusion: change(s) in foreign policy identities or fluid security perceptions 139
- 7 Conclusion 142
- The primacy of identity/security in the relationship 142
- Summary: findings and implications 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415778923
- 0415778921
- 9780203862803
- 0203862805
- OCLC:
- 311791187
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