One Hundred Years of Turkish Foreign Policy (1923-2023)

Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner is Professor of Political Science at Hamline University. She currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Security Studies and is the author of The Role of Ideas in Coalition Government Foreign Policymaking: The Case of Turkey and numerous articles and book chapters on Turkish foreign policy.Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe is Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Turkey. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre in Modern Turkish Studies at Carleton University. She has published extensively on security studies, Turkish foreign policy, EU foreign and neighborhood policies, Turkey-NATO and Turkey-EU relations.

• 1. Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Turkey’s Foreign Policy.- 2. Turkey’s Transatlantic Connections: The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.- 3. An Impasse in Turkey’s Relations with the European Union: The Interplay of Democratic Lapse and External Differentiated Integration.- 4. One Hundred Years of Turkish-Russian Relations: From Balancing Act to Flexible Alignment.- 5. Domestic Sources of AKP’s Foreign Policy Towards the MENA Region: Ideology and Pragmatism.- 6. Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Motivations and Interests.- 7. One Hundred Years of Turkish Foreign Policy in Eastern Mediterranean (1923-2023): A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Turkey as a Middle Power.- 8. Turkey and the South Caucasus: Role of Memory and Perceptions in Shaping Turkey’s Relations with Regional States.- 9. Turkey’s Strategic Partnership with China: A Feminist Recount.- 10. Two Hallmarks of ‘New’ Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Humanitarianism and Africa.- 11. Pragmatic Adaptation as Turkey’s Grand Strategy.