Understanding Turkish foreign affairs in the 21st century : a homegrown theorizing attempt
Author
Biltekin, Gonca
Advisor
Aydınlı, Ersel
Date
2014Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
For Turkish scholars, understanding especially the last decade of Turkey’s
international politics has been a great challenge. Answering fundamental
questions, -and many others-, requires collection of reliable, complete and
uniform data and interpreting them on conceptual terms. The purpose of
this thesis is to understand and explain Turkey’s foreignl affairs in a holistic
way and offer a homegrown model based on original data. Building an
original event dataset, this thesis accounts for the empirical observations
made out of Turkey’s international practice and conceptualizes it as a
complex system. It accounts for foreign policy change in complex systems,
introduces concepts such as domestic responsivity, domestic, international
nodes as well as intermestic and international nexus, and puts forward a
helical model of power accumulation, as an outcome of successful foreign
policy change.
Keywords
Turkish foreign affairsEvent data
Homegrown theory
Theory building
Turkish foreign policy
Foreign policy analysis
Power