Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium.

• Author: Galariotis, Ioannis
• Position: Book review

Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium

Edited by Huseyin Iciksal and Ozan Ormeci

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2015, 730 pages, $121.95, ISBN: 9783631664025.

Huseyin Ictksal and Ozan Ormeci's edited volume Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium constitutes an insightful analysis of how Turkey's foreign policy and external relations have been shaped in the last two decades. The two editors have constructed an astonishing academic work in order to thoroughly explain and evaluate the trajectory of Turkey's foreign policy, especially after the advent into power of the AK Party (Justice and Development Party) in 2002. The edited volume is separated into ten parts and consists of forty-two chapters (including the introduction and the conclusion by the two editors). The publication of this book is a great achievement due to the fact that the two editors have attempted to examine contemporary Turkish foreign policy in the new millennium in relation to all possible geographical areas of the world. Apart from the first part discussing diverse patterns of continuity and change in Turkish foreign policy, all other parts of the volume highlight the relations of Turkey with different areas and countries of the world: Turkey-Middle East Relations (part two), the relations among Turkey, Iran and Israel (part three), EU-Turkish future perspectives (part four), the Cyprus dispute (part five), Turkey in the Balkan area and the Euro-Mediterranean (part six), Turkey-Caucasus and Central Asia relations (part seven), the relationship of Turkey with the United States (part eight), Turkey in the wider American continent and Far East (part nine) and the relations of Turkey with different International Organisations (part ten).

The editors do not adhere to a specific theoretical framework and/or ideological basis. On the contrary, they have left abundant space for the contributors of this volume to unfold their critical points of view in order to examine Turkey's foreign policy behaviour, strategies and tactics in the New Millennium. This is obvious from the number of theoretical and methodological instruments the authors have employed in this book. Realist, institutionalist and constructivist theories have been implemented, as well as more particular approaches like role theory, discourse analysis, chaos theory and the 'securitization' of Turkey's foreign policy. What is attractive in this book is that the editors have succeeded in creating an...