The Geopolitical Origins of Turkish-American Relations: Revisiting the Cold War Years
Journal: All Azimuth A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
Year: 2014

Critical geopolitics provides ways of looking at the world and questioning the role of geopolitics in foreign policymaking processes, as opposed to accepting them as objective and natural. From this theoretical perspective, this article aims to apply critical geopolitics to the case of Turkish-American relations with respect to how the United States (US) viewed Turkey’s geography and how the Turkey-US alliance has been shaped by the foreign and security policies of the latter. The article argues