Turkey Facing East
Subtitle: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719090752
Subjects: Turkey, foreign relations; Soviet union, foreign relations, turkey; Azerbaijan, foreign relations; America, foreign relations
Description: "Turkey facing east is about the importance of Turkey's relations with its Eastern neighbours--Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Soviet Union--during the emergence of the modern Turkish nation-state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The principal strength of this book is that it not only combines historical and theoretical arguments in order to provide a better understanding of the foreign relations of a predominantly Muslim country from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, but it also applies the new approach to the analysis of Turkish foreign policy towards the South Caucasus between 1918 and 1921. Hence, it stands out with its original interdisciplinary approach to the Turkish transition and foreign policy-making that offers perspectives on the extant possibilities for the particular transitional states resulting from the Arab spring uprisings"--Publisher.