Table Of ContentTurkey–WestRelations
Thistimelybookfillsanimportantgapintheliteratureofinternational
relations,providingathorough,up-to-date,empiricallysupported,and
theoreticallygroundedanalysisofhowandwhyTurkishforeignpolicy
haschangedinrecentyearsvis-à-vistheWest.Presentingoneofthefirst
balancing studies that employs elite interviews as data, Turkey–West
Relationsdevelopsaframeworkofintra-allianceopposition,classifying
thetoolsofstatecraftintothreecategories–boundarytesting,boundary
challenging, and boundary breaking. Six case studies are examined
regardingTurkishforeignpolicyoverthepastnineyears,exploringan
array of topics including Turkey’s foreign policy in relation to its
immediate neighborhood and transatlantic actors, including the
refugee crisis, defense procurement, energy policies, and more.
Dursun-Özkanca demonstrates how international, regional, issue-
specific,anddomesticfactorsmayservetoexplainTurkey’sincreasing
boundary-breakingbehavior.Thisbookiscrucialforanyonewhoseeks
tounderstandtherecentgrowingriftsbetweenTurkeyandtheUnited
States,theEU,andNATO.
OyaDursun-ÖzkancaisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatElizabethtown
College. She served as LSEE Visiting Fellow at London School of
Economics and has received grants from Georgetown University,
EuropeanCommission,andvariousothersources.Shehashadarticles
featuredinForeignPolicyAnalysis,CivilWars,andelsewhere.
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Turkey West Relations
The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition
OYA DURSUN-ÖZKANCA
ElizabethtownCollege
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title:Turkey-Westrelations:thepoliticsofintra-allianceopposition/OyaDursun-
Özkanca,ProfessorofPoliticalScience,CollegeProfessorofInternationalStudies,
EndowedChair,ElizabethtownCollege.
description:Cambridge,UK;NewYork,ny:CambridgeUniversityPress,2019.|
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
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isbn9781108488624(hardback)|isbn9781316998960(epub)
subjects:lcsh:Turkey–Foreignrelations–21stcentury.|NorthAtlanticTreaty
Organization–Turkey.|EuropeanUnion–Turkey.|Turkey–Foreignrelations–
Westerncountries.|Westerncountries–Foreignrelations–Turkey.
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Turkey–WestRelations
Thistimelybookfillsanimportantgapintheliteratureofinternational
relations,providingathorough,up-to-date,empiricallysupported,and
theoreticallygroundedanalysisofhowandwhyTurkishforeignpolicy
haschangedinrecentyearsvis-à-vistheWest.Presentingoneofthefirst
balancing studies that employs elite interviews as data, Turkey–West
Relationsdevelopsaframeworkofintra-allianceopposition,classifying
thetoolsofstatecraftintothreecategories–boundarytesting,boundary
challenging, and boundary breaking. Six case studies are examined
regardingTurkishforeignpolicyoverthepastnineyears,exploringan
array of topics including Turkey’s foreign policy in relation to its
immediate neighborhood and transatlantic actors, including the
refugee crisis, defense procurement, energy policies, and more.
Dursun-Özkanca demonstrates how international, regional, issue-
specific,anddomesticfactorsmayservetoexplainTurkey’sincreasing
boundary-breakingbehavior.Thisbookiscrucialforanyonewhoseeks
tounderstandtherecentgrowingriftsbetweenTurkeyandtheUnited
States,theEU,andNATO.
OyaDursun-ÖzkancaisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatElizabethtown
College. She served as LSEE Visiting Fellow at London School of
Economics and has received grants from Georgetown University,
EuropeanCommission,andvariousothersources.Shehashadarticles
featuredinForeignPolicyAnalysis,CivilWars,andelsewhere.
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Turkey West Relations
The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition
OYA DURSUN-ÖZKANCA
ElizabethtownCollege
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UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom
OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA
477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,
NewDelhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108488624
doi:10.1017/9781316998960
©OyaDursun-Özkanca2019
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception
andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten
permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublished2019
PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A.
AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
names:Dursun-Özkanca,Oya,author.
title:Turkey-Westrelations:thepoliticsofintra-allianceopposition/OyaDursun-
Özkanca,ProfessorofPoliticalScience,CollegeProfessorofInternationalStudies,
EndowedChair,ElizabethtownCollege.
description:Cambridge,UK;NewYork,ny:CambridgeUniversityPress,2019.|
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
identifiers:lccn2019027236(print)|lccn2019027237(ebook)|
isbn9781108488624(hardback)|isbn9781316998960(epub)
subjects:lcsh:Turkey–Foreignrelations–21stcentury.|NorthAtlanticTreaty
Organization–Turkey.|EuropeanUnion–Turkey.|Turkey–Foreignrelations–
Westerncountries.|Westerncountries–Foreignrelations–Turkey.
classification:lccjz1649.d872019 (print)|lccjz1649 (ebook)|ddc
327.5610182/1–dc23
LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019027236
LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019027237
isbn978-1-108-48862-4Hardback
isbn978-1-108-72672-6Paperback
CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof
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Turkey–WestRelations
Thistimelybookfillsanimportantgapintheliteratureofinternational
relations,providingathorough,up-to-date,empiricallysupported,and
theoreticallygroundedanalysisofhowandwhyTurkishforeignpolicy
haschangedinrecentyearsvis-à-vistheWest.Presentingoneofthefirst
balancing studies that employs elite interviews as data, Turkey–West
Relationsdevelopsaframeworkofintra-allianceopposition,classifying
thetoolsofstatecraftintothreecategories–boundarytesting,boundary
challenging, and boundary breaking. Six case studies are examined
regardingTurkishforeignpolicyoverthepastnineyears,exploringan
array of topics including Turkey’s foreign policy in relation to its
immediate neighborhood and transatlantic actors, including the
refugee crisis, defense procurement, energy policies, and more.
Dursun-Özkanca demonstrates how international, regional, issue-
specific,anddomesticfactorsmayservetoexplainTurkey’sincreasing
boundary-breakingbehavior.Thisbookiscrucialforanyonewhoseeks
tounderstandtherecentgrowingriftsbetweenTurkeyandtheUnited
States,theEU,andNATO.
OyaDursun-ÖzkancaisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatElizabethtown
College. She served as LSEE Visiting Fellow at London School of
Economics and has received grants from Georgetown University,
EuropeanCommission,andvariousothersources.Shehashadarticles
featuredinForeignPolicyAnalysis,CivilWars,andelsewhere.
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