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      Turkey's "new" foreign policy toward Eurasia

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      Bilgin, P.
      Bilgiç, A.
      Date
      2011
      Source Title
      Eurasian Geography and Economics
      Print ISSN
      1538-7216
      Publisher
      Taylor & Francis
      Volume
      52
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      173 - 195
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Two geographers specializing in Turkey's international relations examine the reframing of foreign policy issues under the country's Justice and Development Party (JDP; also known by its Turkish acronym AKP), in power since 2002. After first locating the JDP within Turkey's current political landscape, the authors investigate how notions of civilizational geopolitics have led to a "new geographic imagination" under JDP that has influenced foreign policy thinking. The authors argue that JDP foreign policy exhibits some continuity with that of earlier governments in terms of activist policies toward Central Eurasia (comprising the Middle East, Central Asia, and Transcaucasia), but are based on a new conceptual foundation that views Turkey not as part of Western civilization but as the emerging leader of its own "civilizational basin" (consisting of the former Ottoman territories plus adjoining regions inhabited by Muslim and Turkic peoples). They then explore the implications for Turkey's future relations with the Central Eurasian region (of which Turkey is assumed to be the leader) and countries of the West (viewed now as "neighbors" but no longer "one of us").
      Keywords
      Central Asia
      Civilizational geopolitics
      Eurasia
      Foreign policy
      Justice and Development Party
      Middle East
      Natural gas pipelines
      Oil pipelines
      Transcaucasia
      Turkey
      Civilization
      Foreign policy
      Geopolitics
      International relations
      Policy reform
      Political relations
      Turkey
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22009
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/1539-7216.52.2.173
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