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Record Nr.

UNINA9910522923603321

Autore

Tziarras Zēnōnas

Titolo

Turkish Foreign Policy : The Lausanne Syndrome in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East / / by Zenonas Tziarras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783030907464

9783030907457

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in International Relations, , 2731-3360

Disciplina

327.561

Soggetti

International relations

Middle East - Politics and government

Peace

Foreign Policy

Middle Eastern Politics

Peace and Conflict Studies

International Relations Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: Turkish Foreign Policy and the ‘Lausanne Syndrome -- Chapter 2: A Neoclassical Realist Framework -- Chapter 3: From the National Pact to the Sèvres and Lausanne: The Birth of Two Syndromes -- Chapter 4: Discursive Manifestations of the Lausanne Syndrome since the Second Group and the AKP’s Geopolitical Vision -- Chapter 5: The Lausanne Syndrome and Revisionism under the AKP: The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East -- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In the context of rapid developments in Turkey and its broader geopolitical environment over the past decade, this book examines and conceptualises Turkey’s changing foreign policy towards a more assertive and revisionist paradigm. More specifically it details the rhetorical and practical-political content of what is termed ‘Lausanne Syndrome’; namely, Turkey’s efforts in recent years – under the AKP government – to revise the geopolitical status quo brought about by



the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) in its broader neighbourhood. By employing a Neoclassical Realist theoretical framework and paying particular attention to ideational factors, the book argues that, contrary to the more widely known ‘Sèvres Syndrome’, which predicts a more cautious brand of Turkish foreign policy, the ‘Lausanne Syndrome’ is associated with a different political-ideological current and predicts a more revisionist type of foreign policy behaviour, even though it has emerged out of the same historical circumstances and been triggered by the same external geopolitical factors. The impact of the ‘Lausanne Syndrome’ on Turkey’s foreign policy behaviour is subsequently tested in four case studies from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East: Cyprus, Libya, Syria, and Iraq.