Pinar Bilgin
Biographic Data
| ID | 353874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pinar Bilgin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pinar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilgin |
| SIGNATURE | BILGIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7326-8329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 574 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Who speaks (nuclear) security on behalf of the international community
Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR
History and International Studies 1900-present
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR: Why we also need relational epistemology
I read Shih’s intervention as an invitation to pay attention to relationality in not only ontological but also epistemological terms. I begin by observing that even those bodies of scholarship that focus on relationality are not always aware of our connectedness in terms of the production of ideas and knowledge about how the world works. It is essential, I argue, that studying the ways in which we are connected does not remain focused purely on m…
Against Eurocentric narratives on militarism
Aspects of the recent scholarship on militarism, especially those who focus on ‘militarization’ as a post-9/11 development, have met with criticism by scholars who have underscored that the violence incurred by everyday people in the hands of the(ir) state – be it in Belfast, Cairo, İstanbul, Paris, or Rio de Janeiro – is not new insofar as military practices of have always impinged upon everyday life. Even as I agree with the critics, I submit t…
The 'Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean' as a Threat to Women's Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading
The decentring agenda in European Studies has called for turning our gaze from the ‘centre’ towards the ‘periphery’. This essay offers one decentred approach to EU migration governance in the Mediterranean: Studying geopolitical encounters between the receiving and sending spaces as constitutive of the very issues that are otherwise portrayed as autonomously developed. I will do this by adopting Edward Said’s method of contrapuntal reading, which…
A case for re-thinking geo-cultural pluralism in International Relations
On the ‘Does Theory Travel?’ Question: Traveling with Edward Said
Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective
In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East, analysing the significant developments that have taken place in the past years. Drawing from a wide range of critical approaches to security, the book offers a comprehensive study of pasts, presents, and futures of security in the region. The book distinguishes itself from previous (critical) studies on regional…
Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South
This chapter will focus on how the paradox at the heart of this volume plays out in the Global South. Oftentimes, it is the Global South actors’ response to the ‘expertise’ that they receive that is problematized (the so-called ‘problem of local ownership’). What often goes unnoticed is that there are (at least) two dimensions to this problem: the prevalence of actors from the Global North in shaping conflict resolution and mediation efforts and …
Inquiring into Others’ Conceptions of the International and Security
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Temporalizing security
The long-term political economy in which precarious lives are shaped was not part of public discourse when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The activities and interpretive dynamics add critical temporal rhythms to the Katrina event, as they summon historical moments and personages belonging to a shadow world behind the world foregrounded in mainstream civic culture. The unnatural disaster of racism swept away the cars with which poor black peop…
Unpacking ‘the global'
In August of 2014, during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, new life was breathed into public debate in the U.S. about the militarization of the police. Images and videos of violent encounters between police and protesters filled up news reports and social media feeds. The outcome of the U.S. federal government’s controversial programmes making surplus military hardware a…
Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology
Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Flanagan 2014), tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, surgeon and womanizer, who is interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. The POWs are set to work building the Thailand-Burma railway, a project thought to be impossible by the British colonial powers, but completed with brute force and slave labour under Japanese rule in sixteen months dur…
What is the point about Sykes–Picot
The Sykes–Picot Agreement (1916) became (in)famous once again following a tweet announcing a propaganda video by the group that call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) declaring “the end of Sykes–Picot”. In this essay I suggest that the point about Sykes–Picot is not about the “artificiality” of borders in the Middle East (for all borders are artificial in different ways) or the way in which they were drawn (for almost all bo…
How to remedy Eurocentrism in IR? A complement and a challenge for The Global Transformation
While IR’s Eurocentric limits are usually acknowledged, what those limits mean for theorizing about the international is seldom clarified. In The Global Transformation , Buzan and Lawson offer a ‘composite approach’ that goes some way towards addressing IR’s Eurocentrism, challenging existing myths about the emergence and evolution of the international system and society. This paper seeks to push the contribution made by Buzan and Lawson in two f…
Contrapuntal Reading” as a Method, an Ethos, and a Metaphor for Global IR
How to approach Global International Relations (IR)? This is a question asked by students of IR who recognize the limits of our field while expressing their concern that those who strive for a Global IR have been less-than-clear about the “how to?” question. In this article, I point to Edward W. Said’s approach to “contrapuntal reading” as one way of approaching Global IR that embraces diversity and reflects multiple and overlapping experiences a…
Introduction: The making of international relations
In this review symposium, Pinar Bilgin, Ann Towns and David C. Kang discuss Barry Buzan and George Lawson’s The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations. In the book, Buzan and Lawson set out to provide a history of how we came to think about international relations in the way we do today. They explore the roots of our contemporary conceptions of the state, revolution, the international and modernity. Th…
Arguing against security communitarianism
Anthony Burke’s ‘security cosmopolitanism’ is a fresh and thought-provoking contribution to critical theorizing about security. In this discussion piece, I would like to join Burke’s call for ‘security cosmopolitanism’ by way of arguing against ‘security communitarianism’. I understand the latter as a particular approach that seeks to limit the scope of security to one’s community – be it the ‘nation-state’ or ‘civilization’. I will suggest that …
Security and citizenship in the global South: In/securing citizens in early republican Turkey (1923-1946)
The relationship between security and citizenship is more complex than media portrayals based on binary oppositions seem to suggest (included/excluded, security/insecurity), or mainstream approaches to International Relations (IR) and security seem to acknowledge. This is particularly the case in the post-imperial and/or postcolonial contexts of global South where the transition of people from subjecthood to citizenship is better understood as a …
Critical investigations into the international
This essay borrows its title from James Der Derian’s 1995 edited book, International Theory: Critical Investigations, where he brought together writings by realist scholars, to highlight the richne
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections
Twenty years have passed since the publication of Ken Booth’s seminal essay ‘Security and Emancipation’ (1991). It has been 16 years since Ken Booth and Richard Wyn Jones offered the fi rst post-graduate level course on ‘Critical Security Studies (CSS)’ at Aberystwyth University (1995/96).2 Since then, the critical body of work produced by Booth, Wyn Jones, their close collaborators and (by now many) students has come to be known as the Aberystwy…
Turkey and EU/rope: Discourses of Inspiration/Anxiety in Turkey’s Foreign Policy
The literature on Turkey-European Economic Community/Union (EEC/EU) relations scrutinises how various EEC/EU actors vacillate on Turkey’s accession to European integration contingent upon their image/s of Turkey. Turkey’s own wavering vis-à-vis EEC/EU, however, is almost always explained with reference to its domestic dynamics (political and economic ups and downs) but not Turkey’s policy-makers’ image/s of the European Community/Union. What ofte…
Civilisation, dialogue, security: The challenge of post-secularism and the limits of civilisational dialogue
The purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to consider the extent to which Dialogue of Civilisations (DoC) initiatives, as alternative visions of post-secular world order, are likely to address insecurities that they identify; and (2) to point to other insecurities that are likely to remain unidentified and unaddressed in the process. In their present conception, DoC initiatives risk falling short of addressing the very insecurities they prior…
Turkey's "New" Foreign Policy toward Eurasia
Two geographers specializing in Turkey's international relations examine the reframing of foreign policy issues under the country's Justice and Development Party (JDP; also known by its Turkish acronym AKP), in power since 2002. After first locating the JDP within Turkey's current political landscape, the authors investigate how notions of civilizational geopolitics have led to a "new geographic imagination" under JDP that has influenced foreign …
The politics of studying securitization? The Copenhagen School in Turkey
Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given the worldwide prevalence of mainstream approaches to security, the nature of peripheral international relations, and the Western European origins and focus of the theory, there is no obvious reason to expect securitization theory to…
Thinking past 'Western' IR
The laudable attempts at thinking past 'Western'ir should not limit their task to looking beyond the spatial confines of the 'West' in search for insight understood as 'difference', but also ask awkward questions about the 'Westernness' of ostensibly 'Western' approaches to world politics and the 'non-Westernness' of others. For there may be elements of 'non-Western' experiences and ideas built in to 'Western' ways of thinking about and doing wor…
Historicising representations of 'failed states: Beyond the cold-war annexation of the social sciences
This article examines the rise of various representations of postcolonial states to highlight how thinking and practice that arose and prevailed during the Cold War still persists in the present ostensibly post-cold war era. After initially outlining the historical construction of the social sciences, it is shown how the annexation of the social sciences evolved in the early post-World War II and cold-war era as an adjunct of the world hegemonic …
The ‘Western-Centrism’ of Security Studies: ‘Blind Spot’ or Constitutive Practice
Unlike some other staples of security studies that do not even register the issue, Buzan & Hansen’s (2009) The Evolution of International Security Studies unambiguously identifies ‘Western-centrism’ as a problem. This article seeks to make the point, however, that treating heretofore-understudied insecurities (such as those experienced in the non-West) as a ‘blind spot’ of the discipline may prevent us from fully recognizing the ways in which suc…
Contrapuntal Reading” as a Method, an Ethos, and a Metaphor for Global IR
How to approach Global International Relations (IR)? This is a question asked by students of IR who recognize the limits of our field while expressing their concern that those who strive for a Global IR have been less-than-clear about the “how to?” question. In this article, I point to Edward W. Said’s approach to “contrapuntal reading” as one way of approaching Global IR that embraces diversity and reflects multiple and overlapping experiences a…
From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism
This article deals with the growing policymaking interest in the condition of ‘failed states’ and the calls for increased intervention as a means of coping with international terrorism. It starts by highlighting the inordinate attention initially granted to the threat posed by ‘rogue states’ to the neglect of ‘failed states’. Generally, it is argued that the prevalence of such notions has to be related to a persistence of Cold War discourse on st…
Securing Turkey through western-oriented foreign policy
How are Turkey's insecurities relevant to the analysis of its international relations? While it is interesting to look at how particular security concerns have affected Turkey's foreign policies at various moments in history, this article will take a different route. Following the distinction that David Campbell has drawn between “Foreign Policy” (through which others are rendered “foreign) and “foreign policy” (through which relations with other…
The politics of studying securitization? The Copenhagen School in Turkey
Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given the worldwide prevalence of mainstream approaches to security, the nature of peripheral international relations, and the Western European origins and focus of the theory, there is no obvious reason to expect securitization theory to…
Turkey's changing security discourses: The challenge of globalisation
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which Turkey's security discourses have been shaped by, and have sought to shape, the transformation Turkey has gone through in recent years. It was as a part of the process of joining the European Union (EU) that the challenge of globalised security was strongly felt in Turkey. Since the Helsinki decision of 1999 to include Turkey in the list of official candidates, there emerged an elite‐level d…
Turkey's "New" Foreign Policy toward Eurasia
Two geographers specializing in Turkey's international relations examine the reframing of foreign policy issues under the country's Justice and Development Party (JDP; also known by its Turkish acronym AKP), in power since 2002. After first locating the JDP within Turkey's current political landscape, the authors investigate how notions of civilizational geopolitics have led to a "new geographic imagination" under JDP that has influenced foreign …
The Securityness of Secularism? The Case of Turkey
Secularism is frequently portrayed as a security referent in present-day Turkey. But, what is it that makes secularism a security issue? Where are we to locate the `securityness' of secularism? Against prevailing accounts that privilege the domestic dimension, this article argues that the securityness of secularism in Turkey should be located in both the domestic and the international . This is not to suggest that secularism can be reduced to sec…
Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft
Eylem Yilmaz, Pinar Bilgin, Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft, International Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1, Turkey: Myths and Realties (Winter, 2005/2006), pp. 39-59
Whose 'Middle East'? Geopolitical Inventions and Practices of Security
Contesting those approaches that present the 'Middle East' as a region that 'best fits the realist view of international politics', this article submits that critical approaches are relevant to this part of the world as well. It is argued that instead of taking the relatively little evidence of enthusiasm for addressing the problem of regional insecurity in the Middle East for granted, a critical place for such approaches to begin is a recognitio…
How to remedy Eurocentrism in IR? A complement and a challenge for The Global Transformation
While IR’s Eurocentric limits are usually acknowledged, what those limits mean for theorizing about the international is seldom clarified. In The Global Transformation , Buzan and Lawson offer a ‘composite approach’ that goes some way towards addressing IR’s Eurocentrism, challenging existing myths about the emergence and evolution of the international system and society. This paper seeks to push the contribution made by Buzan and Lawson in two f…
Constructing Turkey's “Western” Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft
Throughout the republican era, membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions has provided Turkey's policymakers with the opportunity to assert the country's identity. Indeed, Turkey's westernness has been expressed, not only through the adoption of ideas and manners from the west (as happened in Ottoman times), but also through joining western institutions, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This one of the reasons why the US proje…
Only Strong States Can Survive in Turkey's Geography: The uses of "geopolitical truths" in Turkey
Against Eurocentric narratives on militarism
Aspects of the recent scholarship on militarism, especially those who focus on ‘militarization’ as a post-9/11 development, have met with criticism by scholars who have underscored that the violence incurred by everyday people in the hands of the(ir) state – be it in Belfast, Cairo, İstanbul, Paris, or Rio de Janeiro – is not new insofar as military practices of have always impinged upon everyday life. Even as I agree with the critics, I submit t…
The 'Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean' as a Threat to Women's Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading
The decentring agenda in European Studies has called for turning our gaze from the ‘centre’ towards the ‘periphery’. This essay offers one decentred approach to EU migration governance in the Mediterranean: Studying geopolitical encounters between the receiving and sending spaces as constitutive of the very issues that are otherwise portrayed as autonomously developed. I will do this by adopting Edward Said’s method of contrapuntal reading, which…
Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security
Despite the prevalence of state-based approaches to security studies during the Cold War, alternative ways of thinking about security—focusing on the individual and society—also developed during this time period. However, in the post-Cold War era the primacy of the state in considerations of security has come under increasing challenge from a variety of perspectives. In this essay, the development of the study of individual and societal dimension…
Civilisation, dialogue, security: The challenge of post-secularism and the limits of civilisational dialogue
The purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to consider the extent to which Dialogue of Civilisations (DoC) initiatives, as alternative visions of post-secular world order, are likely to address insecurities that they identify; and (2) to point to other insecurities that are likely to remain unidentified and unaddressed in the process. In their present conception, DoC initiatives risk falling short of addressing the very insecurities they prior…
Security studies: Theory/practice
Despite the recent proliferation of works ‘re‐thinking’ security, most of the literature critical of Cold War approaches remains dedicated to conceptual issues, often to the detriment of practice and the theory/practice relationship. Re‐thinking security requires a re‐conceptualisation of the theory/practice linkage thereby opening up security in both theory and practice. Two interrelated arguments will be made. First, that a Critical Security St…
Inquiring into Others’ Conceptions of the International and Security
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Turkey and EU/rope: Discourses of Inspiration/Anxiety in Turkey’s Foreign Policy
The literature on Turkey-European Economic Community/Union (EEC/EU) relations scrutinises how various EEC/EU actors vacillate on Turkey’s accession to European integration contingent upon their image/s of Turkey. Turkey’s own wavering vis-à-vis EEC/EU, however, is almost always explained with reference to its domestic dynamics (political and economic ups and downs) but not Turkey’s policy-makers’ image/s of the European Community/Union. What ofte…
Culture and Security: Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security
A Return to ‘Civilisational Geopolitics’ in the Mediterranean? Changing Geopolitical Images of the European Union and Turkey in the Post-Cold War Era
The prevalence of the discourse of ideological geopolitics during the Cold War meant that both Turkey and the EU belonged to the West by virtue of their ideological orientation. In the absence of this prevalent geopolitical discourse, both the EU and Turkey have spent the 1990s trying to locate themselves geographically. Drawing on the literature on critical approaches to political geography and international relations, this article seeks to answ…
The 'Peculiarity' of Turkey's Position on EU-Nato Military/Security Cooperation: A Rejoinder to Missiroli
Millennium Conference
Security studies: Theory/practice
Despite the recent proliferation of works ‘re‐thinking’ security, most of the literature critical of Cold War approaches remains dedicated to conceptual issues, often to the detriment of practice and the theory/practice relationship. Re‐thinking security requires a re‐conceptualisation of the theory/practice linkage thereby opening up security in both theory and practice. Two interrelated arguments will be made. First, that a Critical Security St…
Theory/Practice in Critical Approaches to Security: An Opening for Dialogue
Alternative futures for the Middle East
Historicising representations of 'failed states: Beyond the cold-war annexation of the social sciences
This article examines the rise of various representations of postcolonial states to highlight how thinking and practice that arose and prevailed during the Cold War still persists in the present ostensibly post-cold war era. After initially outlining the historical construction of the social sciences, it is shown how the annexation of the social sciences evolved in the early post-World War II and cold-war era as an adjunct of the world hegemonic …
Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security
Despite the prevalence of state-based approaches to security studies during the Cold War, alternative ways of thinking about security—focusing on the individual and society—also developed during this time period. However, in the post-Cold War era the primacy of the state in considerations of security has come under increasing challenge from a variety of perspectives. In this essay, the development of the study of individual and societal dimension…
The 'Peculiarity' of Turkey's Position on EU-Nato Military/Security Cooperation: A Rejoinder to Missiroli
Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective
This is an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East. Using a non-realist approach, Bilgin provides a comprehensive study of the past, present and future of security in the region. She also considers the question of identity formation, explaining how and why various regional representations came into being, and explor
International Politics of Women’s (In)security: Rejoinder to Mary Caprioli
Is the ‘Orientalist’ past the future of Middle East studies
Is there a future for Middle East studies?' was the title of Rashid Khalidi's presidential address to the annual convention of the Middle East Studies Association in 1994. 1 Khalidi's own answer was that, in order for Middle East studies to have a future, scholars would need to reach beyond their own area of interest to other areas, reach out to the general public via teach-in and outreach activities as well as through the media, and communicate …
Os estudos de segurança na Turquia: Situando a Turquia no "ocidente" por meio de "escrever a segurança
A concepção de segurança nacional orientada externamente e focada militarmente não lida suficientemente bem com as inseguranças turcas, inseguranças estas compartilhadas com outros países em desenvolvimento. Apesar disso, durante toda a Guerra Fria, houve pouca discussão acerca da limitada relevância de tais conceitos e teorias tradicionais das Relações Internacionais para tratar das inseguranças turcas. O artigo procura explicar este fato fazend…
A Return to ‘Civilisational Geopolitics’ in the Mediterranean? Changing Geopolitical Images of the European Union and Turkey in the Post-Cold War Era
The prevalence of the discourse of ideological geopolitics during the Cold War meant that both Turkey and the EU belonged to the West by virtue of their ideological orientation. In the absence of this prevalent geopolitical discourse, both the EU and Turkey have spent the 1990s trying to locate themselves geographically. Drawing on the literature on critical approaches to political geography and international relations, this article seeks to answ…
From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism
This article deals with the growing policymaking interest in the condition of ‘failed states’ and the calls for increased intervention as a means of coping with international terrorism. It starts by highlighting the inordinate attention initially granted to the threat posed by ‘rogue states’ to the neglect of ‘failed states’. Generally, it is argued that the prevalence of such notions has to be related to a persistence of Cold War discourse on st…
Whose 'Middle East'? Geopolitical Inventions and Practices of Security
Contesting those approaches that present the 'Middle East' as a region that 'best fits the realist view of international politics', this article submits that critical approaches are relevant to this part of the world as well. It is argued that instead of taking the relatively little evidence of enthusiasm for addressing the problem of regional insecurity in the Middle East for granted, a critical place for such approaches to begin is a recognitio…
Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft
Eylem Yilmaz, Pinar Bilgin, Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft, International Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1, Turkey: Myths and Realties (Winter, 2005/2006), pp. 39-59
Turkey's changing security discourses: The challenge of globalisation
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which Turkey's security discourses have been shaped by, and have sought to shape, the transformation Turkey has gone through in recent years. It was as a part of the process of joining the European Union (EU) that the challenge of globalised security was strongly felt in Turkey. Since the Helsinki decision of 1999 to include Turkey in the list of official candidates, there emerged an elite‐level d…
Constructing Turkey's “Western” Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft
Throughout the republican era, membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions has provided Turkey's policymakers with the opportunity to assert the country's identity. Indeed, Turkey's westernness has been expressed, not only through the adoption of ideas and manners from the west (as happened in Ottoman times), but also through joining western institutions, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This one of the reasons why the US proje…
What future for Middle Eastern studies
Making Turkey’s Transformation Possible: Claiming ‘Security‐ speak’—not Desecuritization
There is an emerging consensus in the literature that considers Turkey’s post‐1999 transformation a consequence of AKP‐led efforts directed at challenging the ‘securityness’ of issues. The present article argues that change became possible not through ‘desecuritization’, but owing to some societal actors claiming ‘security‐speak’ to frame other issues as ‘threats to Turkey’s future’, and pointing to Turkey’s accession to the European Union as a s…
Culture and Security: Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security
Only Strong States Can Survive in Turkey's Geography: The uses of "geopolitical truths" in Turkey
Thinking past 'Western' IR
The laudable attempts at thinking past 'Western'ir should not limit their task to looking beyond the spatial confines of the 'West' in search for insight understood as 'difference', but also ask awkward questions about the 'Westernness' of ostensibly 'Western' approaches to world politics and the 'non-Westernness' of others. For there may be elements of 'non-Western' experiences and ideas built in to 'Western' ways of thinking about and doing wor…
The Securityness of Secularism? The Case of Turkey
Secularism is frequently portrayed as a security referent in present-day Turkey. But, what is it that makes secularism a security issue? Where are we to locate the `securityness' of secularism? Against prevailing accounts that privilege the domestic dimension, this article argues that the securityness of secularism in Turkey should be located in both the domestic and the international . This is not to suggest that secularism can be reduced to sec…
A telling story of IR in the periphery: Telling Turkey about the world, telling the world about Turkey
Securing Turkey through western-oriented foreign policy
How are Turkey's insecurities relevant to the analysis of its international relations? While it is interesting to look at how particular security concerns have affected Turkey's foreign policies at various moments in history, this article will take a different route. Following the distinction that David Campbell has drawn between “Foreign Policy” (through which others are rendered “foreign) and “foreign policy” (through which relations with other…
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