Karmaşıklığın Dansı: Suriye Uyuşmazlığı Bağlamında ABD-Türkiye İlişkileri
Journal: Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
Year: 2019

Alliances under unipolarity operate with different logic than under bipolarity. Unipolarity makes the twin dangers of abandonment and entrapment more likely for the weaker states that need the unipole for the pursuit of their regional security interests. The article takes the US-Turkish relations within the context of Syrian conflict as exemplary and shows how the strategic discrepancies between the US-Turkish positions paved the way for Turkey’s abandonment in Syria. The article concludes that