The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies — Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East during the AKP Period (2005–2011) 

Co-publication with Other Foreign Publishers

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

This book is a comprehensive analysis of Turkish foreign policy through the concept of “middle power”. The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power identity based on liberal foreign policies, in order to illuminate the change in post-Cold War Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors.

The author further explores state identity and how changes of circumstances, norms, state self-perception, and the perceptions of others effects that identity. This is done first through a policy analysis of Turgut Özal, Necmettin Erbakan and İsmail Cem and second through an examination of AKP’s foreign policy experiences and ideas, especially in relation to Ahmet Davutoğlu.

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■ The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies ――Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East during the AKP Period (2005–2011)――
■ by Kohei Imai
■ US$95.00
■ 249pp
■ 2017
■ ISBN978-1-4985-2491-9

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Framework of the Middle Power Identity

Chapter 2: Historical Background

Chapter 3: Premise of Liberal Middle Power

Chapter 4: The Foundation of AKP’s Foreign Policy Identity

Chapter 5: Realizing Liberal Middle Power

Chapter 6: Conclusion

References