The Turkish-American Relationship Between 1947 and 2003: The History of a Distinctive Alliance

The author explores U.S.-Turkish foreign policy in order to test questions of big state/small state and patron/client theories of alliances. Although he covers the entirety of the post-World War II period, the heart of the work looks at the period lasting from 1960 to 1975, the time in which those who had staged a military coup ruled Turkey (as well as the period that was the sole focus of the author's PhD dissertation). Turkey's reactions to the Cuban Missile Crisis and failed U.S. efforts...