Turkey and the West: Change in Continuity? - A Two-way Approach to Turkey’s Relations with the West
(2010) STVM17 20101Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Westernization is a centuries long project started in the Ottoman Empire, in order to fix the dysfunctionalities of the empire inside and to boost the empire’s image outside. It has transformed into a quest of transformation of Turkey into a modern state and it found its reflection in the foreign policy as a pro-Western approach in the Turkish Republic.
Historical institutionalism suggests that the policies are path dependent and rational choice institutionalism insists on interest-driven actors and policies. Today, given the ambiguities surrounding Turkey’s membership to the EU and complexity of Turkish-American relations, Turkey had been pushed to question its foreign policy priorities. This study will aim to seek answers using these... (More) - Westernization is a centuries long project started in the Ottoman Empire, in order to fix the dysfunctionalities of the empire inside and to boost the empire’s image outside. It has transformed into a quest of transformation of Turkey into a modern state and it found its reflection in the foreign policy as a pro-Western approach in the Turkish Republic.
Historical institutionalism suggests that the policies are path dependent and rational choice institutionalism insists on interest-driven actors and policies. Today, given the ambiguities surrounding Turkey’s membership to the EU and complexity of Turkish-American relations, Turkey had been pushed to question its foreign policy priorities. This study will aim to seek answers using these two institutionalist approaches by putting their hypotheses into a test, in order to find out whether Westernism is a case of persistence or Turkey’s main foreign policy axis being the West would change (Less)
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- author
- Gürel, Evrim LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A Two-way Approach to Turkey’s Relations with the West
- course
- STVM17 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Turkish foreign policy, westernization, westernism, historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism
- language
- English
- id
- 1608265
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-30 16:25:47
- date last changed
- 2010-06-30 16:25:47
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