1st Edition
The Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy? Revisiting the Contours of Hard Power
Introduction: Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy
Şaban Kardaş
1. Scope, drivers and manifestations of the realist turn in Turkish foreign policy: a case of delayed strategic adjustment
Şaban Kardaş, Bayram Sinkaya and Bahadır Pehlivantürk
2. Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis
Başar Baysal
3. Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider
Haldun Yalçınkaya and Elif Merve Dumankaya
4. The nexus between intelligence and foreign policy in the Turkish context: strategic implications of the MIT’s transformation
Merve Seren
5. Counter-terrorism in the age of hard power: reassessing Turkey’s policy against the PKK
Cenker Korhan Demir
6. From ‘diplomacy’ to hard power? Restructuring, weakening, and sidelining of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009–2023)
Nuri Yeşilyurt
7. Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power
Pınar İpek
Biography
Şaban Kardaş is a Research Professor and Program Coordinator at the Gulf Studies Center at the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University, Qatar.
