Turkish Syrian Relationship 2002 2014

Author : Aadil Shafi Beig
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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TURKISH-SYRIAN RELATIONSHIP: 2002-2014 by Aadil Shafi Beig Pdf

This study analyzes the factors that motivated both Syria and Turkey to mend their ties and enter into a friendly relationship with each other since 2002 (when AKP came to power). The study also looks at the factors which contributed towards the abrupt breaking of ties and growing antagonism between the two countries in the aftermath of the 'Arab Uprising'. This book is important because it is concerned with the region, which has remained volatile since the time of its creation, and more importantly, the repercussions of the ongoing turmoil have already transcended the boundaries and are bound to have further serious consequences. Turkey and Syria being the two significant countries. Hence, the relationship between the two has a bigger say in the region than that of the world.

Author : Özlem Tür
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317005957

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Turkey-Syria Relations by Özlem Tür Pdf

In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade, relations were transformed from enmity to amity. Border issues and water sharing quarrels were moving towards amicable settlement and the two states' policies toward the Kurdish issue converging. Turkey undertook to mediate the Syrian-Israeli conflict and close political and economic relations were developing rapidly between the two states. Yet, with the Syrian Uprising, relations returned to enmity. What explains these remarkable changes? Given that Turkey and Syria are two pivotal states in the region, what are the implications of this changing relationship for the international politics of the Middle East, the balance of power and regional stability? In this internationally collaborative work, co-edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Özlem Tür, British, Syrian and Turkish scholars address these questions and examine the various domestic and international drivers in this key regional relationship. They discuss what theories best help us understand these seismic realignments and explore the impact of economic interdependence, identity changes and power balances on the evolving relationship between these two key regional powers.

Author : Magdalena Kirchner
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847408642

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Why States Rebel by Magdalena Kirchner Pdf

Given the fact that two-thirds of all intrastate wars since 1945 have included foreign interventions, what drives sovereign states to support non-state conflict parties? In order to understand causes and calculations of this particular type of third party intervention, this book connects some of the most important contemporary debates in international relations, ranging from security cooperation between states and non-state actors to the effects of intervention on both local conflict dynamics and interstate relations. Presenting a new theoretical framework and a multidimensional concept of support (endorsement, hosting, as well as financial and military assistance), this book establishes a systematic path between international as well as domestic incentives and specific types of sponsorship policies. In a subsequent comparative analysis, the author examines conditions and dynamics of Syria’s cooperation with Fatah, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, and Hizballah from 1964 to 2006.

Author : Mehmet Akif Kumral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030390297

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Exploring Emotions in Turkey-Iran Relations by Mehmet Akif Kumral Pdf

This book explores emotional-affective implications of partnership and rivalry in Turkey-Iran relations. The main proposition of this research underlines the theoretical need to reconnect psycho-social conceptualizations of “emotionality,” “affectivity,” “normativity,” and “relationality.” By combining key theoretical findings, the book offers a holistic conceptual framework to better analyze emotional-affective configuration of relational rules and roles in trans-governmental neighborhood interactions. The empirical chapters look at four consecutive periods extending from the end of First World War (November 1918) to the resuscitation of US sanctions against Iran (November 2018). In each episode, global-regional contours and dyadic dynamics of Ankara-Tehran relationship are examined critically. The century-long history of emotional entanglements and affective arrangements exposes complex patterning of “feeling rules.” Two countervailing constellations still reign over relational narratives. While the 1514 Çaldıran war myth reproduces sectarian resentment and confrontational climate, the 1639 Kasr-ı Şirin peace story reconstructs secular sympathy and collaborative atmosphere in Turkish-Iranian affairs.

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442264908

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Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East by Robert Mason Pdf

Case studies help identify the emerging trends and influences that dominate the political decision making and policy behavior of many states in the Middle East. The chapters investigate foreign policy challenges and debates in various states, changing relations and balance of power between them, and the continuing role of the US in the region.

Author : Oya Dursun-Özkanca
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488624

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Turkey–West Relations by Oya Dursun-Özkanca Pdf

Explains the trajectory of Turkish foreign policy behavior vis-...-vis the West, identifying the major factors behind intra-alliance opposition.

Author : Kilic Bugra Kanat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755650781

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Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations by Kilic Bugra Kanat Pdf

For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current points of tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the “vulnerable partnership”. The book outlines the key causes of this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated across different political periods. These especially involve the US congress, public opinion, Russia, and crises in the Middle East. Based on journalistic, archival and scholarly sources, the topic of the book is at the intersection foreign policy studies, Middle East politics, the history of Turkish-American relations, and foreign policy making.

Author : Mehmet Emin Erendor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781527576674

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The Role of Intelligence and State Policies in International Security by Mehmet Emin Erendor Pdf

It is well-known that the understanding of security has changed since the end of the Cold War. This, in turn, has impacted the characteristics of intelligence, as states have needed to improve their security policies with new intelligence tactics. This volume investigates this new state of play in the international arena.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SET Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Insight Turkey 2015​ ​- Summer 2015 (Vol. 17, No. 3) by Anonim Pdf

In a radio broadcast in 1939 Winston Churchill defined Russia in a famous quip as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.’ The chain of metaphors in Churchill’s famous maxim was to point the difficulty of making sense of the great political transformation Russia had gone through. Though perplexed, Churchill had a key to solve the Russian riddle: the national interest or more precisely ‘historic-life interests.’ The ‘new Middle East’ is also a riddle inside an enigma rolled up in a puzzle mat. The former is difficult to grasp even with metaphors. The national interest is not a ‘key’ either, for it appears more of a political ploy than an analytical edifice that can hardly be applicable to the haplessly artificial regional states. The enigma of the ‘Arab Spring,’ the mystery of the ISIL, the riddle of Russian intervention in Syria and the puzzle of Turkish national interests in the Middle East are few items in the long list of explanandum.

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472910479

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The Tail Wags the Dog by Efraim Karsh Pdf

The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To western intellectuals, foreign policy experts and politicians, 'empire' and 'imperialism' are categories that apply exclusively to the European powers and more recently to the United States of America. Lacking an internal dynamic of its own, the view of such people is that Middle Eastern history is the product of its unhappy interaction with the West. This is the basis of Obama`s much ballyhooed `new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world`. Efraim Karsh propounds in these pages a radically different interpretation of Middle Eastern experience. He argues that the Western view of Muslims and Arabs as hapless victims is absurd. On the contrary modern Middle Eastern history has been the culmination of long existing indigenous trends, passions and patterns of behaviour. Great power influences, however potent, have played a secondary role constituting neither the primary force behind the region`s political development nor the main cause of its notorious volatility. Notwithstanding the Obama administration's abysmal failure to address the momentous Middle Eastern events of recent years, Karsh argues it is only when Middle Eastern people disown their victimization mentality and take responsibility for their actions and their western champions drop their condescending approach to Arabs and Muslims, that the region can at long last look forward to a real `spring`.

Author : Özgür Pala,Khalid Al-Jaber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666901733

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Turkish-Qatari Relations by Özgür Pala,Khalid Al-Jaber Pdf

This book examines domestic and regional geopolitical dynamics behind Turkish-Qatari relations from the past to the present. Utilizing arguments of practical geopolitical reasoning, Özgür Pala and Khaled Al-Jaber situate their analysis of evolving relations in the contexts of Ottoman-British geopolitical rivalry in the Persian Gulf, the Turkish Republic’s fluctuating relations with the Middle East until the 2000s, the AKP governments’ opening to the region and finally the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Contextualizing the trajectory of Turkish-Qatari relations within the larger Middle East and the Gulf Arab region, the authors argue that material interests and identity politics have generally determined relations until the turn of the millennium. Under Erdogan and Sheikh Hamad’s assertive leadership and ambitious foreign policy, Turkey and Qatar came to witness various foreign policy convergences on critically important regional issues. Pala and Al-Jaber argue that these convergences, coupled with their geopolitical and security goals, facilitated a political alignment between Ankara and Doha throughout the Arab Spring. They argue that despite facing major geopolitical setbacks, Turkey and Qatar were able to chart a much deeper cooperation, which later evolved into a strategic partnership in various areas.

Author : Tasnim Abderrahim,Laura-Theresa Krüger,Salma Besbes,Katharina McLarren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351732567

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Tunisia's International Relations since the 'Arab Spring' by Tasnim Abderrahim,Laura-Theresa Krüger,Salma Besbes,Katharina McLarren Pdf

When popular protests started in Tunisia in late 2010, few anticipated the implications these events would have for the entire Arab region. In the following years, this region witnessed deep changes, increased divisions, and even failing states. Meanwhile, Tunisia managed to assert itself as a new democracy. How did this small country manage its democratic transition within such a short period? And what implications has this had for its foreign policy and its role in international politics? This book assesses Tunisia’s transition ‘inside and out’ from four angles: Tunisian polity and politics which provide the framework for its foreign policy since the ‘Arab Spring’; bilateral relations before and after the ‘Arab Spring’; Tunisia’s activism in international organisations as well as their presence in Tunisia; and transnational issues in Tunisia. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, including authors’ own interview material conducted with politicians and representatives of civil society and international NGOs involved in the transition process, the book shows that since 2011 Tunisia has not only developed fundamentally at the domestic level, but also at the level of external relations. New and old alliances, a broadening of relations, and new activism of civil society and of Tunisia in international organisations certify that Tunisia has the potential to play an increasingly important role regionally as well as internationally. Providing an encompassing picture of Tunisia’s changed role and successful transition from an autocracy to a democracy, the book allows students and scholars in the field to understand the ‘last country standing’ better, a country that both the scientific community and the political scene should not underestimate for the promises it holds.

Author : David L. Phillips
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Turkey
ISBN : 9781412864732

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An Uncertain Ally by David L. Phillips Pdf

Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important geopolitically, it has become an outlier in Europe and an uncertain ally of the United States. An Uncertain Ally is a straightforward indictment of Erdogan. Drawing on inside sources in his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the police, the book reveals corruption and money laundering schemes that benefitted Erdogan, his cronies, and family members. Erdogan has polarized Turkish society and created conditions that led to the coup attempt of July 2016. He has also deepened divisions by accusing Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic teacher in Pennsylvania, of establishing a parallel state and masterminding the coup attempt. Erdogan has seized on the failed coup to justify a witch hunt, arresting thousands and ordering the wholesale dismissal of alleged coup sympathizers. Rather than foster reconciliation, he pursued vendettas and turned Turkey into a gulag. An Uncertain Ally exposes Turkey’s ties to jihadists in Syria and the Islamic State, questioning its suitability as a NATO member. Under Erdogan, Turkey faces a dark future that poses a danger to the region and internationally.

Author : TUBA ÜNLÜ BILGIÇ,BESTAMI S. BILGIÇ
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666908336

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Turkish-American Relations since 1783 by TUBA ÜNLÜ BILGIÇ,BESTAMI S. BILGIÇ Pdf

Recent public squabbles between American and Turkish leaders and lawmakers have led many to question what kind of an alliance Turkey and the United States have. This book is directly concerned with this question and attempts to shed light on every single detail related to the nature of this alliance. With discussions on the historical evolution of the bilateral relations and current disagreements on various issues such as the Turkish acquisition of Russian air defense systems and the Kurdish question in the Middle East, this study offers a lucid genealogy of the Turkish-American alliance for all those interested in the subject.

Author : Jim Zanotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:907572068

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Turkey by Jim Zanotti Pdf