Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers

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ID20495809
AuthorsSener Akturk (0000-0002-5897-6714, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume23
IssueFall 2021
Pages95-118
Publication date2021-12-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInsight Turkey (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1302-177X • E-ISSN: 2564-7717
PublisherInsight Turkey/SETA Vakfi (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25253/99.2021234.7
OpenAlexW4200365508
LanguageEN
Citations received4

How compatible is Turkey’s grand strategy with the grand strategies of global great powers? This article briefly summarizes principles of Turkish grand strategy, both from a descriptive and normative point of view, and then proceeds to outline and compare the grand strategies of five great powers that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). While there are some observable conflicts between Turkey and the French, Russian, and American proxies in Syria, Libya, and the Caucasus, there are no outstanding militarized conflicts between Turkey and the British proxies. China is also positioned against Turkey in several international conflicts including Syria, and the intense persecution of Turkic Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang adds another dimension of latent Chinese-Turkish conflicts. The article provisionally concludes that the Turkish grand strategy seems to be most compatible, or least incompatible, with the British grand strategy, followed by the U.S. grand strategy, among the five permanent members of the UNSC, whereas Turkish and French and especially Russian grand strategies seem particularly incompatible

China · Grand strategy · Normative · Persecution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Global Energy Security and Policy · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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