Contentious issues of security and the future of Turkey / edited by Nursin Atesoglu Guney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Güney, Nurşin Ateşoğlu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Turkey.

National security.

Turkey--Foreign relations--1980-.

Turkey.

Turkey--Strategic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive study focuses on the future of Turkish foreign and security policies within the emerging strategies of the two Wests. It examines Turkish foreign policy in the context of trans-Atlantic relations - as a global actor, and with respect to conflict, new power relations, energy security, Greece, Cyprus and the environment.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Appendices; Notes on Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 A Tale of Two Centuries: Continuities in Turkish Foreign and Security Policy; 2 Transatlantic Relations and Turkey; 3 Turkey's Potential (and Controversial) Contribution to the Global 'Actorness' of the EU; 4 A Retrospective Analysis of Turkey-United States Relations in the Wake of the US War in Iraq in March 2003; 5 The 'Iraq Factor' in Turkey, EU and US Triangle since 9/11; 6 The Limits of Change: Turkey, Iran, Syria

7 The New Power Calculations and 'Structured' Relations in the Fluctuating Security Environment of Eurasia; 8 Turkey and the Greater Black Sea Region; 9 Twenty First Century Energy Security Debates: Opportunities and Constraints for Turkey; 10 Mediterranean Fault Line - The Future of Greece and Turkey; 11 Cycles of Transformation of the Cyprus Question; 12 The New Security Environment and Turkey's ISAF Experience; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-351-16114-8

1-281-10388-8

9786611103880

0-7546-8459-8

OCLC:

476278045