Strategy and Strategic Discourse in Turkish Foreign Policy

✍ Scribed by Hasan Yükselen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a critical realist analysis of Turkish foreign policy (TFP), covering various periods from the Turkish National Struggle to the contemporary Justice and Development Party Government. It discusses TFP within the critical realist framework, employing the concept of differences in continuity to demonstrate how agency and structure interacted, and how some discourses arose and others failed in the history of the Turkish Republic. The book also applies the concepts of strategy and strategic discourse to reveal how real-world strategic preferences correspond to the narration. Lastly, the author argues that the underlying structural forces have endured, despite Turkey’s persistence in enhancing the agency’s role, ultimately leading to differentiation between “what is spoken” and “what is actualized”.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Literature Review and Contribution
Structure of the Book
References
2 Strategy and Strategic Discourse
Ontological Depth of Strategy and Strategic Discourse
Giving Priority to Ontology
Critical Realist Reading of Ontology
Structured Context: Agent’s Externality
Exploring Structure and Structural Forces in Context
Agency and Strategy: Perception of Structure and Expression in Strategy
Agency
How to Analyze Strategy? Setting the Ground for Analysis
Strategy as Praxis
Strategic Discourse: The Representation of Strategy
Sources of Incongruence: Causation of Incongruence Between What Is Spoken and What Is Actualized
References
3 1919–1923 “Independence or Death!”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse: How Strategy Is Represented?
Sources of Incongruence
References
4 1923–1939 “Peace at Home, Peace in the World”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse: How Strategy Is Represented?
Sources of Incongruence
References
5 1939–1945 “Turkey Cannot Assure Its Security Through Forging Alliances”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse
Sources of Incongruence
References
6 1945–1980 “A New World Is to Be Built; Turkey Will Take Its Place”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse
Sources of Incongruence
References
7 1980–2002 “The Turkic World; From the Adriatic Sea to the Great Wall of China”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse
Sources of Incongruence
References
8 2002–2015 “We Have Historical Responsibilities”
Structure and Context
Agency and Strategy
Strategy and Discourse
Sources of Incongruence
References
9 Conclusion
References
Index