Moving Away from The West or Taking Independent Positions: A Structural Analysis for The New Turkish Foreign Policy
Journal: Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)
Year: 2019

This paper focuses on understanding and explaining the change of Turkish foreign policy,particularly in the last decade. Many observers have expressed a suspicion that Turkey is abandoning its Western-centric alignment and gradually shifting its axis. The thesis argues that rather than a shift, Turkey is taking an independent position. It maintains that the end of the Cold War and the change in the international structure from bipolarity to unipolarity has provided incentives for countries with