{"product_id":"debating-security-in-turkey-9780739148716","title":"Debating Security in Turkey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebating Security in Turkey: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, gives a detailed account of the strategic security agenda facing Turkey in an era of uncertainty and swift transformation in global politics, and regional and local dynamics. The contributors to this volume describe the challenges and changes that Turkey encounters in the international, regional, and national environment at a time of extraordinary flux. This study provides a framework for Turkish security agenda locating it in theoretical discussions, and developing a conceptual framework of security challenges to Turkey, and to a broader region where the country and its interests are located. The book positions Turkey in the new global security order addressing a multidimensional political agenda, and points to the need not only to elaborate on the overall evaluation of Turkey's political affairsdomestic and foreign but also to trace a critical conjuncture of transatlantic re\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lucid, illuminating, incisive, well-researched, multi-authored book offers a remarkably comprehensive set of overviews and evaluations of the profound political and contextual changes that have taken place in Turkey since the 1980s, and of the resultant ‘paradigm shifts’ and ‘axis shifts’ in Turkey’s foreign and security policies and thinking during this period… It deserves to be widely read by students of, and commentators on, contemporary Turkey. -- Robert Bideleux, Swansea University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Debating Security, Changes and Challenges for Turkey in the Twenty-First Century by Ebru Canan-Sokullu Part 1. Approaches to 'Security' and 'Challenges' in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 1. 'Security' and 'Challenges' in the Twenty-First Century: A Theoretical Outlook \tby Craig Snyder Chapter 2. Insulator, Bridge, Regional Center? Turkey and Regional Security Complexes \tby Thomas Diez Chapter 3. Continuities and Changes in Turkish Foreign and Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the EU \tby Selcen Öner  Part 2.\tTurkey and Internal Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 4. Beyond Military Tutelage? Civil-Military Relations and the AKP Government  \tby Ismet Akça and Evren Balta-Paker  Chapter 5. Islamization: A Challenge to Turkey’s Secular Democracy? \t             \tby Selin Özoguz-Bolgi Part 3. Turkey and External Security Challenges in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 6. Turkey’s New Cyprus Policy: Transforming a Military Base to a Basin of Cooperation           \tby Ahmet Sözen  Chapter 7. Turkey’s Changing Relations with the Middle East: New Challenges and Opportunities in the 2000s         \tby Özlem Tür  Chapter 8. Switching Sides or Novel Force? Turkey’s Relations with Israel and  the Palestinians \tby Nathalie Tocci  Chapter 9. The Iraqi Conundrum: A Source of Insecurity for Turkey? \t           \tby Armagan Gözkaman  Chapter 10. Turkish-Russian Rapprochement and the Security Dialogue in the Black Sea-South Caucasus Region  \tby Burcu Gültekin Punsmann  Chapter 11. Energy Security and Turkey in Europe’s Neighborhood \t          \t           \tby Özgür Ünal Eris  Part 4. The Euro-Atlantic Partnership in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 12. Security Challenges of Turkish-American Relations in the Post-Bush Era \tby Emre Iseri  Chapter 13. Turkey as a Stakeholder and Contributor to Regional Security in the Western Balkans by Adam Balcer  Chapter 14. Turkey and Greece: What Future for Rapprochement?\t\t           \tby James Ker-Lindsay  Chapter 15. Turkey’s Approach to Environmental Security: A Case for Soft Security\t           \tby Rana Izci  Chapter 16. Turkish Political Elite Perceptions on Security\t\t\t              \tby Özgehan Senyuva and Çigdem Üstün,  Conclusion: What Future for Security?\t         \tEbru Canan-Sokullu","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037498081623,"sku":"9780739148716","price":103.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739148716.jpg?v=1750935971","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/debating-security-in-turkey-9780739148716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}