The Transformation of the Geopolitical Vision in Turkish Foreign Policy

By problematizing the relationship between geopolitics and foreign policy, this paper investigates the discursive assumptions of two different geopolitical visions of Turkish foreign policy. It seeks to explain how different political actors spatialize Turkey's geography and represent it as hav...

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Published in:Turkish studies 2013-12, Vol.14 (4), p.661-687
Main Author: Yesiltas, Murat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Foreign Policy
Geography
Geopolitics
International system
Justice
Political actors
Political geography
Political Parties
Rationalization
Representation
Turkey
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Summary:By problematizing the relationship between geopolitics and foreign policy, this paper investigates the discursive assumptions of two different geopolitical visions of Turkish foreign policy. It seeks to explain how different political actors spatialize Turkey's geography and represent it as having a "different," "exceptional," and "unique" geopolitical position in the international system in order to justify foreign policy. By investigating how geopolitical representations produced in each of the different geopolitical vision serve to enable, restrict, and rationalize a different set of role choices for Turkey in the international system, the article is aiming to provide a critical geopolitical perspective in order to understand the discursive transformation of the geopolitical vision in the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) period.
ISSN:1468-3849
1743-9663
DOI:10.1080/14683849.2013.862927