CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Pehlevan, Turgut Can |
|---|---|
| Title | From Kemalism to Neo-Ottomanism: Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Syria |
| Summary | The relations between Turkey and Syria has been unstable throughout the years, changing from positive to negative. These changes leave a great puzzle behind and the reasons are often debated by academics. This thesis attempts to comprehensively analyze the changes in Turkish foreign policy towards Syria through the lenses of realism and constructivism and contribute to the scholarly discussions on the subject. The relations between the two countries are chronologically divided into three chapters and the Turkish foreign policy is analyzed through the realist and constructivist hypotheses to shed light on the changes during the 90s to the present-day. The logic between Turkey’s foreign policy decisions are analyzed through the logic of appropriateness and logic of consequences, and constructivism is used to explain the construction of national interests of Turkey while realism is used to explain Turkey’s quest for power in the Middle East. Congruence analysis is used to analyze to what extent the empirical evidence is in congruence with the theoretically derived hypotheses/expectations while discourse analysis is used to descriptively analyze the Turkish foreign policy practices and the developments in the region. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/pehlevan_turgut.pdf |
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