Identity and Turkish foreign policy
Subtitle: the Kemalist influence in Cyprus and the Caucasus
By: Umut Uzer
Series: Library of international relations -- 52
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781848855694
Subjects: Foreign relations; Kemalism
Other titles: Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Description: "I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation One of the most prominent Muslim scholars and scientists of the medieval era, the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) joined the Shi'a Nizari Ismaili community at a young age, as the armies of Genghis Khan poured across his homeland. In the course of a long and eminent career, first under the patronage of the Ismailis at the fortress of Alamut, and later with the conquering Mongols, he produced over 150 works on diverse subjects from theology and philosophy to mathematics and astronomy. His principal works on Ismaili doctrine, the Rawda-yi taslim (The Paradise of Submission) and the autobiographical Sayr wa suluk (Contemplation and Action), are already available in English translation by S J Badakhchani. In this volume, he offers new critical editions and translations of three shorter Ismaili works by Tusi, namely Aghaz wa anjam (The Beginning and the End), Tawalla wa tabarra (Solidarity and Dissociation), and Matlub al-mu'minin (Desideratum of the Faithful). In these three treatises, Tusi provides concise interpretations of key motifs in Ismaili doctrine, with special reference to the primordial nature of man, his earthly existence in relation to the imam, and his destiny in the hereafter."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: This is a revised version of author's doctoral dissertation at the politics department of the Univ. of Virginia. Earlier version of chapter 4 was published under the title "Turkish annexation of Hatay" in the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, v.30: no.3, Spring 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The role of ideas and interests in Turkish foreign policy; title: 1. State identity and foreign policy: the impact of ideas and power; title: 2. The three paths of Turkish nationalism and Kemalist state identity; title: 3. Turkish foreign policy analysis; title: 4. The annexation of Hatay: exception or harbinger of future policy?; title: 5. Turkey's national cause: Cyprus in Turkish foreign policy; title: 6. The Karabagh issue and the emergence of the Turkic world.