Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium

Hüseyin Işıksal is Associate Professor at Girne American University. He has a PhD from the University of Keele (UK) and a PhD from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey). His main areas of expertise are the Middle East, Cyprus and IR Theory.Ozan Örmeci is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Girne American University in Kyrenia (North Cyprus). He is coordinator of the UPA initiative (International Political Academy) and works as a specialist for the Turkish Political Psychology Association.

«Dieser Band ist […] durch seinen Aufbau und seine Vielschichtigkeit überaus empfehlenswert.» (Martin Schwarz, Portal für Politikwissenschaft Jan. 2016)«[...] Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium is highly recommended because it comprises an excellent introduction to the topic, and postulates an insightful mapping of Turkey’s current policy perspectives and challenges. This scientific, edited volume will be useful to students, professors, experts and practitioners dealing with the role of Turkey in the world and in its close neighbourhood.(Ioannis Galariotis, Insight Turkey Volume 18, No. 3)

• Contents: Ozan Örmeci: Introduction – Onur Öymen: Turkish Foreign Policy – Hüseyin Işıksal: Turkish Foreign Policy during the AKP Era – Hakan Mehmet Kiriş/Yasemen Kiriş Yatağan: Internal Dynamics of the Turkish Foreign Policy in the 2000s – Deniz Tansi: «New Turkey» in the Context of «Moderate Islam» – Oğuzhan Göksel: The Impact of the Arab Spring on Turkey’s Role and Relations in the Middle East – Panagiotis Andrikopoulos: The Securitization of the Syrian Crisis in Turkey: What lies beneath a «threat construction»? – Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu: Turkish Foreign Policy Gripped by the Change and Differentiating Position of the Kurdish Regional Government – Yüksel Kamacı: Turkey-Iran Relations during Ahmadinejad Presidency (2005-2013) – Harriet Fildes: International Fluctuations and Domestic Limitations: Turkish-Israeli Relations in the New Millennium – Deniz Tansi: Turkish-Israeli Relations: Opportunities and Threats – Timuçin Kodaman/Haktan Birsel: A Geopolitical Eurasian Swamp between Turkey and Central Asia: Iran – Sina Kısacık: The Approach of Turkey on the Internationalising Iranian Nuclear Question – Enver Gülseven: Turkey-EU Relations – Kader Sevinç: How to Negotiate With EU? – Armand Sağ: Turkey’s PKK Problem and Turkey-EU Relations: The Case of Netherlands – Laura Batalla Adam: 2013: A New Opportunity to Rebuild EU-Turkey Relations? – Hüseyin Işıksal: The Four Stages of Turkish Position in Cyprus: The Elements of Continuity and Change – Devrim Şahin: Chaos Theory and Turkish Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Turkey’s proactive Cyprus Policy during the AKP Administration – Ozan Örmeci: Cyprus Dispute in terms of Energy Politics – Ali Üncü: Discourse analysis of Turkey’s Role on the Reliability of Turkish Cypriot Politicians through external inter-positioning – Hüseyin Işıksal: Turkey-Greece Relations in the New Millennium – Didem Ekinci: Turkish Decision-Making and the Balkans: Implications of Role Theory – İbrahim Alper Arısoy: Turkey and the Euro-Mediterranean: Geopolitics & Geo-economics at Crossroads – Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu: Turkey as a Stabiliser in the Black Sea Basin – Uğur Sönmez Özlü: Turkey-Azerbaijan Relations in the 21st Century – Ata Atun: Turkish-Armenian Relations and Armenian Genocide Claims: Armenian Population in Eastern Anatolia in the First World War – Burcu Kanbal Öz: Pipelines Diplomacy in Turkey-Russian Federation Relations – Sina Kısacık/Tülin Avcı: An Assessment of the Pipeline Project for the Transportation of Caspian Basin Hydrocarbons within the Context of Energy Strategies of the United States, the Russian Federation, and Turkey – Ali Çınar: Turkey-USA Relations – Ömer Kurtbağ: The Recent State of Affairs in Turkish-American Relations: Before and After the «Model Partnership» – Ozan Örmeci: Anti-American Reflections of the Arab Spring in Turkey – Leslie Esbrook: Alliance Re-Set? The Course of U.S.-Turkish Relations Post-2012 Elections – Fadi F. Elhusseini: The Canadian-Turkish Relations: Present Status and New Prospects – Ariel S. González Levaggi: Turkey and Latin America: A New Horizon of a Strategic Relationship – Giray Fidan: Turkish-Chinese Relations – Hakan Gönen/Kubilay Atik: Turkish-Japanese Relations: A Descriptive Assessment – Ali Oğuz Diriöz: Turkey and NATO – Anıl Kemal Aktaş/Berkin Şafak Şener: IMF and World Bank Group: Structure, Implementations, Relations with Turkey and Examples for Structural Changes – Šejla Jusufovic: Turkey-Black Sea Economic