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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255314703321

Autore

Kumral Mehmet Akıf

Titolo

Rethinking Turkey-Iraq Relations : The Dilemma of Partial Cooperation / / by Mehmet Akıf Kumral

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-55193-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Middle East Today

Disciplina

327.56

Soggetti

International relations

Middle East—History

Asia—History

International Relations

History of the Middle East

Asian History

Turkey Foreign relations Iraq

Iraq Foreign relations Turkey

Iraq

Turkey

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: Methodological and Conceptual Framework -- 2 Prelude to Cooperation: Saadabad Pact and Dyadic Costs -- 3 Epilogue of Cooperation: Baghdad Pact and Regional Ramifications -- 4 Prologue to Non-Cooperation: Gulf War and International Implications -- 5 Finale of Non-Cooperation: US Invasion and Local Losses -- 6 Conclusion: Cross-Episodic and Overarching Findings -- 7 Post-Script: Perpetuation of Partial Cooperation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores key historical episodes to understand the reasons and consequences of the enduring partiality problem in cooperation between Turkey and Iraq. Notwithstanding their mutual material interdependence and common cultural heritage, these two close neighbors have stayed far from achieving comprehensive cooperation.



The author examines contextual-discursive dynamics shaping Turkey-Iraq partial cooperation around critical events, such as the Saadabad-Baghdad pacts, the Gulf War, the US Invasion, and the war against ISIS. Leading pro-government Turkish daily newspapers of the period are analyzed to highlight ambivalent ontological-rhetorical modes and ambiguous political narratives-frames that perpetuate paradoxes of partiality in Ankara’s rationalization and contextualization of cooperation with Baghdad and Erbil.