Turkey's New Geopolitics: From the Balkans to Western China by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Comparative Politics, Middle East, Political Science, History, General
ISBN: 9780813386591
Google: UJVpAAAAMAAJ
Goodreads: 7483035
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1993-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

World events, as well as the evolution of Turkish domestic policies, conspire to give Turkey a new prominence in international politics and a higher profile in the Middle East and the Muslim areas of the Soviet Union and China. While Turkey has traditionally avoided this kind of involvement, it will come under pressure for change, for economic reasons and because other Turkic areas will seek Turkish ties and support. As a major power in the region, Turkey will inevitably need to concern itself more with events in the Arab world, Iran, and Israel as well.

Turkey, then, will almost surely turn greater attention to the politics of the Middle East in the decade ahead. This change will be determined by many factors: economic need, the need for alternative spheres of influence after EC rejection, new opportunities for ties with the Caucasian and Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union, increased turmoil in the Persian Gulf, and the gradual withering of Ataturkist isolationism.

The world itself continues to undergo profound change. It is a world in which we see simultaneous tendencies of breakup and unification. This period of confusion and turmoil promises to be a long one. Hopefully, it will not be exploited by any single new ideological state or force which would serve to polarize these trends.

Turkey itself may go through a breakup phase if a Kurdish national movement comes into being that redraws the regional map. On the other hand, Turkey may also go through a unification phase if the newly emerging Turkic world brings it power and influence over a broad stretch of the globe. One can only hope that Turkey will continue to bring to its foreign policy the sobriety and responsibility that have largely marked its policies since the establishment of the Turkish Republic after World War L

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