Costs and benefits to Turkey in its relations with the United States : the Cold War and after
Author
Buyruk, Ö. Bora
Advisor
Salt, Jeremy
Date
2003Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Turkey’s relations with the United States have always been a diagnostic element not
only for its foreign policy but also its economic and sociological structure. As a
global power, the US has always interested in the region from Eurasia to the Middle
East, which inevitably highlight Turco-American relations. This thesis is a product
of the idea, which gives importance to analyze the key issues in Turco-American
relations in order to ferret out costs and benefits of Turkish side from its relations
with the US. It probably gives us to chance to see alterations in relations and
evaluate Turkish foreign policy vision in the long run. “Indefiniteness” can be
accepted as the nature of the global environment of the post Cold War which has
appeared specifically in the aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks. So,
following developments in Turkey’s region indicates that there is need to evaluate
Turkish position in its relations with the US. This reevaluation period should not
only comprise strategic, economic and political relations in Turco-American
relations but also some cliché concepts like “strategic partnership”, “dependency”,
“global power” and so on. This is why this thesis is analyzing Turco-American
relations into two sections; the Cold War and the post Cold War Eras, because it
aims to extract and underline in which ways this bilateral relation has changed with
changing conjectures, which probably enlighten us about the near future of the
relations. Therefore, it is possible to think that this thesis is an attempt to highlight
the important linkage between an “established” or “weak” foreign policy and its
possible reflections on the state’s international statisko in more general meaning.
Keywords
Turco-American relationsTurkish foreign policy
the post Cold War
the Cold war
international cooperation
global power
dependency
strategic partnership