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Turkish foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring era: from proactive to buffer state

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  • E. Fuat Keyman

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Our globalising world is presently in a state of global turmoil. Risk, uncertainty, and insecurity are the terms that shape global/regional/national/local affairs and developments. The refugee crisis and the war against ISIL constitute the twin crises creating seismic impacts and consequences that in turn escalate risk and turmoil. Turkey is situated at the heart of these two crises, being very much affected by them and, therefore, perceived as a pivotal actor in the way in which the West is dealing with them. Yet, the West’s current instrumentalist and functionalist approach to Turkey as a buffer state designed to contain these two crises in the MENA does not offer an effective and sustainable solution to these crises, much less provide the stability and order that is direly needed in regional and global affairs.

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  • E. Fuat Keyman, 2016. "Turkish foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring era: from proactive to buffer state," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(12), pages 2274-2287, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:37:y:2016:i:12:p:2274-2287
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1199260
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    1. Gözde Yılmaz, 2019. "Emulating Erasmus? Turkey’s Mevlana exchange program in higher education," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 145-159, June.
    2. Mustafa Yetim & Tamer Kaşıkcı, 2021. "Re-adapting to Changing Middle Eastern Politics: The Modification in Turkey’s Actor Perception and Turkey-Free Syrian Army (FSA) Relations," Contemporary Review of the Middle East, , vol. 8(2), pages 193-209, June.

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