The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies: Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East during the AKP Period (20052011)

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This book is a comprehensive analysis of Turkish foreign policy through the concept of middle power. The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power identity based on liberal foreign policies, in order to illuminate the change in post-Cold War Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors. The author further explores state identity and how changes of circumstances, norms, state self-perception, and the perceptions of others effects that identity. This is done first through a policy analysis of Turgut zal, Necmettin Erbakan and smail Cem and second through an examination of AKPs foreign policy experiences and ideas, especially in relation to Ahmet Davutolu.

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Turkey has been characterized as a middle power. This book provides a depth to this characterization by discussing Turkeys foreign policy after the end of the Cold War through policies associated with middle powers. As such Imais study is an interesting and important contribution to the literature on Turkeys foreign policy. -- Meliha Benli Altunisik, Middle East technical University, Ankara, Turkey

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Kohei Imai is research fellow of Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) in Japan