Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership
For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current points of tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the “vulnerable partnership”. The book outlines the key causes of this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated across different political periods. These especially involve the US congress, public opinion, Russia, and crises in the Middle East. Based on journalistic, archival and scholarly sources, the topic of the book is at the intersection foreign policy studies, Middle East politics, the history of Turkish-American relations, and foreign policy making.
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Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership
For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current points of tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the “vulnerable partnership”. The book outlines the key causes of this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated across different political periods. These especially involve the US congress, public opinion, Russia, and crises in the Middle East. Based on journalistic, archival and scholarly sources, the topic of the book is at the intersection foreign policy studies, Middle East politics, the history of Turkish-American relations, and foreign policy making.
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Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership

Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership

by Kilic Bugra Kanat
Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership
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Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership

Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership

by Kilic Bugra Kanat

Overview

For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current points of tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the “vulnerable partnership”. The book outlines the key causes of this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated across different political periods. These especially involve the US congress, public opinion, Russia, and crises in the Middle East. Based on journalistic, archival and scholarly sources, the topic of the book is at the intersection foreign policy studies, Middle East politics, the history of Turkish-American relations, and foreign policy making.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780755650767
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/30/2024
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kilic Bugra Kanat is Research Director at the SETA Foundation in Washington DC, US, and Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, Erie, US. He received the Outstanding Research Award and Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award from Penn State and has participated in the Future Leaders Program of Foreign Policy Initiative. Kanat's writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey, The Diplomat, Middle East Policy, Arab Studies Quarterly, Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He is also a columnist at Daily Sabah and author of A Tale of Four Augusts: Obama's Syria Policy (2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkish-American Relations
Chapter 1: The Role of Public Opinion
Chapter 2: US Congressional Attitudes: A Long Running Challenge for Turkey
Chapter 3: Turkey-US-Russia Triangle: Common Enemy, Realignments, Unipolarity
Chapter 4: Syria as a Faultline in Turkish-American Relations
Chapter 5: Fault lines in the Middle East: Iraq, Iran and Israel
Epilogue

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