Turkey's view on NATO through the scope of strategic culture theories (2009-2016)
Journal: edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Year: 2018

This analysis examines and explains the way in which Turkey views its own NATO membership by making use of strategic culture theory, a constructivist approach to security studies. A strategic culture consists of a mixture of narratives that shape a country’s ideas on security which, in turn, form the basis for its foreign policy decision making. In the case of Turkey, it is pointed out that while its strategic culture has during most of the 20th century been dominated by a ‘national unity’ narra