Biltekin, Gonca2016-01-082016-01-082014http://hdl.handle.net/11693/16875Ankara : The Department of International Relations, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2014.Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2014.Includes bibliographical references leaves 306-330.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.xiv, 339 leavesEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessTurkish foreign affairsEvent dataHomegrown theoryTheory buildingTurkish foreign policyForeign policy analysisPowerDR477 .B55 2014ThesisB148443