This paper reviews the evolution of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP)'s civilizational
outlook vis-à-vis the West as a discursive instrument that justified its Muslim democracy …

Since the mid-2000s, Turkey has incorporated a soft power discourse into its foreign policy
agenda and shifted its attention toward building up its soft power infrastructure. Up until …

The existing literature on Turkish foreign policy (TFP) asserts that under the rule of the
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), Turkey's foreign policy shifted from caution and uni …

This article deals with Turkey's increasing involvement and activism in the Balkans between
2002 and 2016, under the government of the Justice and Development Party. The central …

Turkey's enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally
altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United …

This paper demonstrates how the Justice and Development Party's (JDP) hegemony
involved a coalescence of external and domestic forces into a historic bloc. It benefits from …

Turkey's Middle East policy has taken a realist turn in recent years. This article explores this
phenomenon in a critical case, ie, Turkey's abandonment of a policy of engagement vis-à-vis …

Turkey has been a critical case to study to assess the impact of EU conditionality on non-
member states, but has lost its visibility following the debates on the detachment of Turkey …

Purpose What are the causes and consequences of Turkey's intervention in Syria? The
purpose of this paper is to explore this question by focusing on the time frame from 2011 to …

Introduction to Cuba as part of a three-leg Latin American tour. is was the second visit of a
high-level Turkish delegation to Latin American countries, the rst being in 1995. Erdoğan's …