By using the core insights of the constructivist approach in International Relations, this book analyses the foreign policy behaviour of Turkey. It argues that throughout its modern history, Turkey's foreign policy has been affected by its Western identity created in the years following the War of Independence. It underlines the inadequacy of structural constructivism and offers an interactive model, which takes domestic and systemic factors into account. It also offers a critique of the rational-choice literature on Turkish foreign policy and argues that Turkish foreign policy has been, and...
By using the core insights of the constructivist approach in International Relations, this book analyses the foreign policy behaviour of Turkey. It ar...