Analysis of the New Turkish Foreign Policy

Abstract

The book examines Turkeys new foreign policy operating in the new international system. Especially with the AKP government, Turkish foreign policy principles have been changed and/or modified radically. Therefore, new foreign policy mentality has to be analyzed in detail. The book also focuses on the strategic depth paradigm of Prof. Dr. Ahmet Davutoglu. In his book, Davutoglu inspects the Turkeys place within the world politics and its relations neighboring countries through historical-religious lense. In order to understand this new mentality in the Turkish foreign policy, historical developments of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic has been covered. The book mainly focuses on following subjects: analysis of Turkish foreign policy framework, changes in Turkish governments foreign policy paradigm, reflections of new approaches in the Turkish foreign policy, Turkeys shifting foreign policy and the new Turkish foreign policys future, continuity and change in Turkish foreign policy and lastly implications of Turkeys new foreign policy doctrine.