Bridge across the Bosporus : The Foreign Policy of Turkey / / [by] Ferenc A. Váli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524862603321
• Autore: Váli Ferenc A (Ferenc Albert), <1905->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019; Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins Press, [1971]; ©[1971]
• ISBN: 0-8018-1182-1; 1-4214-3581-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 410 p.) : map (on lining papers)
• Disciplina: 327.561
• Soggetti: Middle Eastern history; Turkey Foreign relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 387-399.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Turkish Spelling and Pronunciation -- Preface -- I. From Empire to Nation-State -- The Turks -- The Ottoman Past -- Decline, Reform, and Revolution -- World War I and the Rise of New Turkey -- World War II and After -- II. Foundations of Turkey's Foreign Policy -- Geopolitical Foundations -- Ethnic Foundations -- Ideological Foundations -- Governmental Foreign Policy -- III. Political Parties, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy -- The Justice Party -- The Republican People's Party -- The Reliance Party -- Splinter Parties -- The Turkish Labor Party -- Public Opinion and Foreign Policy -- IV. Turkey, the United States, and NATO -- Turkey and NATO -- The United States and Turkey -- American Presence in Turkey -- Relations with Western Europe -- Should Turkey Leave NATO? -- V. The USSR, the Straits, and the Balkans -- Soviet-Turkish Relations: Cooperation and Confrontation -- Soviet-Turkish Relations: Relaxation and Reorientation -- The Soviets and the Turkish Straits -- Turkey's Western Flank: The Balkans and East Europe -- Can Russia Be Trusted? -- VI. Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus -- Megali Idea -- Turkey and Greece Bury the Hatchet -- The New Apple of Discord: Cyprus -- Cyprus: Settlement and Deadlock -- Turkey and Greece: The Interlocked ; Nations -- VII. Turkey and the Middle East -- Turks, Arabs, and Persians -- From the Baghdad Pact to CENTO -- Iran, Pakistan, and CENTO -- Syria, Iraq, and the Kurds -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict -- Turkey's New Middle Eastern Policy -- VIII. Development: A Foreign Policy Goal -- Development Goals and Problems -- The Five Year Plans -- Aid from the West and from the East -- Turkey and the European Economic Community -- Regional Cooperation for Development -- The Outlook -- IX. Ambitions and Realities of Turkish Foreign Policy -- The Balance Sheet.; The Weight of Domestic Politics -- The Weight of Ideology -- The Weight of International Factors -- Realities versus Ambitions -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1971. With Atatürk's guiding reforms, Turkey underwent a sweeping modernization of the country's administration. More specifically, by adopting the Latin alphabet, secularizing the country's governance, and importing European laws and jurisprudence, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk effectively reformed the Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state. In doing so, he introduced a number of foreign policy commitments. Ferenc A. Váli examines the flexibility of Turkey's foreign commitments in light of the country's modernization; depending on the circumstance, Turkey's foreign policy has wavered between Western alliance and neutrality. Examining Turkey's foreign policy in the twentieth century, Váli provides historical background for Turkey's transition form an empire to a nation-state. Váli also assesses Turkey's relations with NATO, Western allies, Russia, the Baltic States, and the Middle East. For his research, Váli conducted interviews with officials of the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, political party leaders, academics, journalists, and members of diplomatic missions.