Strategy And Strategic Discourse In Turkish Foreign Policy
by Hasan YГјkselen /
2020 / English / PDF
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This book provides a critical realist analysis of Turkish foreign policy (TFP), covering various periods from the Turkish National Struggle to the contemporary Justice and Development Party Government. It discusses TFP within the critical realist framework, employing the concept of differences in continuity to demonstrate how agency and structure interacted, and how some discourses arose and others failed in the history of the Turkish Republic. The book also applies the concepts of strategy and strategic discourse to reveal how real-world strategic preferences correspond to the narration. Lastly, the author argues that the underlying structural forces have endured, despite Turkeys persistence in enhancing the agencys role, ultimately leading to differentiation between what is spoken and what is actualized.
