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Turkey’s Foreign Policy Narratives

Implications of Global Power Shifts

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Authors:
  1. Toni Alaranta

    1. Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland

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  • Offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives
  • Analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's position in the world
  • Contextualizes Turkish Narratives of the Syrian War

Part of the book series: Global Power Shift (GLOBAL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Global Power Shift and Liberalism

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 19-29

  4. Turkey and the Liberal Philosophy of History

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 31-61

  5. Nationalism and the Meaning of Modernization

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 63-91

  6. Interpreting the Liberal International Order

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 93-122

  7. Approaching the Non-west: China and Russia

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 123-138

  8. Narratives of the Syrian War and the Pandemic

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 139-169

  9. Conclusion

    • Toni Alaranta
    Pages 171-176
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About this book

This book offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives in a period of global power shifts. By examining international and national historical processes, the author highlights narrative processes and traditions that describe Turkey and its position in world politics. He also analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's increasingly active and confusing foreign policy and the narratives associated with it. The book covers topics such as Kemalist modernization, Islamic conservative views of the New World Order, Turkey's relations with non-Western countries such as Russia and China, and Turkish narratives of the Syrian war and the COVID-19-pandemic. It is intended for scholars of international relations and European and Middle Eastern politics, and appeals to anyone interested in Turkish history and politics.

Reviews

“The book is addressed to anyone interested and working in International Relations, Middle East politics, Turkish history, and politics. It deserves positive comments in many ways. First of all, it should be noted that the content is very well constructed. The theoretical background, the historical process analysis, and discussions on the subject are well distributed in the sections.” (Fatma Çakır, Insight Turkey, Vol. 25 (3), 2023)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland

    Toni Alaranta

About the author

Toni Alaranta is a senior research fellow in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. His fields of interest are Turkish history and foreign policy, international relations, and political ideologies. His main publications concentrate on Kemalism, Turkish transformation and Turkish foreign policy in the changing world. Alaranta has published several books and dozens of articles on Turkey and Turkey-West relations, and he is a frequent commentator of current affairs in Finnish and international media.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Turkey’s Foreign Policy Narratives

  • Book Subtitle: Implications of Global Power Shifts

  • Authors: Toni Alaranta

  • Series Title: Global Power Shift

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92648-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92647-2Published: 23 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92650-2Published: 24 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92648-9Published: 22 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2198-7343

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-7351

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 176

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Foreign Policy, European Politics, Middle Eastern Politics

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