Debating Security in Turkey
Subtitle: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century
By: Edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu
Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780739148716; 9780739148730
Subjects: International Security; Politics and government; National security; Foreign relations
Description: Debating Security in Turkey: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, gives a detailed account of the strategic security agenda facing Turkey in an era of uncertainty and swift transformation in global politics, and regional and local dynamics. The contributors to this volume describe the challenges and changes that Turkey encounters in the international, regional, and national environment at a time of extraordinary flux. This study provides a framework for Turkish security agenda locating it in theoretical discussions, and developing a conceptual framework of security challenges to Turkey, and to a broader region where the country and its interests are located. The book positions Turkey in the new global security order addressing a multidimensional political agenda, and points to the need not only to elaborate on the overall evaluation of Turkey's political affairs--domestic and foreign-- but also to trace a critical conjuncture of transatlantic relations, its recent role in the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia, and bid for full membership in the EU within the security context. Finally, the contributors reflect upon where Turkey's security challenges and prospects stand from internal and external perspectives with an interactive foreign policy assessment. Debating Security in Turkey is an essential contribution to the literature of Turkish national security, and the effects of that security in the region.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction : debating security, changes and challenges for Turkey in the twenty-first century / Ebru Canan-Sokullu; title: Approaches to "security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century; title: "Security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century : a theoretical outlook / Craig Snyder; title: Insulator, bridge, regional center : Turkey and regional security complexes / Thomas Diez; title: Continuities and changes in Turkish foreign and security policy in the twenty-first century and the EU / Selcen Öner; title: Turkey and internal security challenges in the twenty-first century; title: Beyond military tutelage : civil-military relations and the AKP government / Asmet Akça and Evren Balta-Paker; title: Islamization : a challenge to Turkey's secular democracy? / Selin Özouz-Bolgi; title: Turkey and external security challenges in the twenty-first century; title: Turkey's new Cyprus policy : transforming a military base to a basin of cooperation / Ahmet Sözen; title: Turkey's changing relations with the Middle East : new challenges and opportunities in the 2000s / Özlem Tür; title: Switching sides or novel force? : Turkey's relations with Israel and the Palestinians / Nathalie Tocci; title: The Iraqi conundrum : a source of insecurity for Turkey / Armaan Gözkaman; title: Turkish-Russian rapprochement and the security dialogue in the Black Sea-South Caucasus Region / Burcu Gültekin Punsmann; title: Energy security and turkey in europe's neighborhood / Özgür Ünal Eri; title: The Euro-Atlantic partnership in the twenty-first century; title: Security challenges of Turkish-American relations in the post-Bush era / Emre Eeri; title: Turkey as a stakeholder and contributor to regional security in the western Balkans / Adam Balcer; title: Turkey and Greece : what future for rapprochement? / James Ker-Lindsay; title: Turkey's approach to environmental security : a case for soft security / Rana Azci; title: Turkish political elite perceptions on security / Özgehan Eenyuva and Çidem Üstün; title: Conclusion: what future for security? / Ebru Canan-Sokullu; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the contributors.