Turkey’s Grand Strategy as the Third Power: A Realist Proposal
Journal: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Year: 2021

This article proposes a grand strategy for Turkey that is based on neorealist assumptions. While Turkey’s immediate neighbors, with the partial exception of Iran, do not pose a conventional, existential threat to Turkey in terms of their latent or military power, the “periphery” of Turkey’s immediate neighbors includes half a dozen regional powers that have the military or economic capacity to threaten Turkey’s neighbors or Turkey itself. Thus, Turkey should adopt a “neighborly core doctrine” to