To browse Academia. This issue focuses on two distinct but related geopolitical strategies of Turkey at a regional level.
The first article, written by Alan Makovsky, discusses the prospects for further normalization between Turkey and Israel, and the potential role that Cyprus and the energy trade can play therein. The second article, written by Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, focuses on the nexus between Turkey's developing weapons industry and Turkey's relations with United States and the European Union. The article argues that Turkish foreign policy has moved beyond slogans. As far as security is concerned, relying mainly on soft power, Turkish strategy is closer to the European strategy in that it tries to look to the security of whole population groups and their general welfare.
Nevertheless, it is also seen that Turkey is now mature enough to employ different strategies in its relations with regional actors and in dealing with security issues. Bergen: Chr. Turkish foreign policy: structures and decision-making processes. CMI Report. The deterioration of relations between Israel and Turkey, culminating in the ''Gaza flotilla'' affair of June , are part of a reorientation in the Turkish foreign policy over the past several years: a move away from the West and toward Muslim states and non-state groups, including such radical actors as Iran, Hamas and Hizballah.
This article reviews the rationale for the Israeli-Turkish strategic partnership in the s and the early years of this century. It then documents deviations in Turkish foreign policy from Western patterns. Next it examines how changes in Turkey's twenty-first century strategic environment, as well as in the domestic arena, led to a reorientation of Turkish foreign policy and to current tensions in bilateral relations.
And finally, it assesses the impact of the changes in Turkish foreign policy on the Greater Middle East and global politics.
