1st Edition

Turkey's New Foreign Policy Davutoglu, the AKP and the Pursuit of Regional Order

By Aaron Stein Copyright 2015
104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), after coming to power in 2002, sought to play a larger diplomatic role in the Middle East. The AKP adopted a proactive foreign policy to create ‘strategic depth’ by expanding Turkey’s zone of influence in the region, drawing on the opportunities of geography, economic power and imperial history to reconnect the country with its historical hinterland.... Read more

1. Introduction: The Search for Strategic Depth The AKP and the Middle East 2. Conservative Politics and Problem-Solving, 2002-11 3. The End of ‘Zero Problems’, 2010-13 4. Stumbling in Iraq and Syria, 2011-14 5. ‘Precious Loneliness’

Biography

Aaron Stein is an Associate Fellow at RUSI and a PhD Candidate at King's College London, where he is researching Iranian and Turkish nuclear decision-making. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of San Francisco and a Master’s degree in International Policy Studies with a specialisation in nuclear non-proliferation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

He has written extensively on Turkish politics and regional proliferation, publishing in scholarly journals and print media, including Survival, the RUSI Journal, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the National Interest.