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 …

This paper aims to contribute to the growing Foreign Policy Analysis literature by focusing on
the role of non-state actors in foreign policy implementation. Special attention is paid to the …

This article seeks to test the relevance of neoclassical realism in explaining the foreign
policy behavior of a regional power in an era of turbulent change in the regional system …

Public diplomacy scholarship is multifaceted, eclectic, and accelerating at a tremendous
rate. The purpose of this article is to conduct a semi-systematic framework-based literature …

The currently governing Turkish AK Party's reformist agenda at home and its increasingly
assertive policies abroad, like the “soft” and “hard” power elements of its foreign policy …

Until the late 2000s, Turkish foreign policy had traditionally faced towards the West. Turkey
was known as the loyal partner of the United States and western Europe in the Middle East …

Extant studies suggest that criticism of state practices may create ontological crises in states,
thus prompting emotional responses. This article examines what happens when target …

This study analyzes how the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) understanding of new
nationalism, or neo-Ottomanism, incorporates the logic of masculinist protection in its …

Frame analysis is a systematic, versatile, and economical approach for analyzing text in the
context of Foreign Policy Analysis. It can, for example, be applied to examine intentions that …

This chapter identifies the nature and magnitude of the misfit between European and Turkish
foreign policy, focusing on the European Union's (EU) requirements, the state of Turkish …