استكشاف سمات الإستراتيجية الكبرى لتركيا: المرونة، القوة المتقلبة، الترابط

Year 2022, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 73 - 94, 01.01.2022

Hasan Yükselen

Abstract

يمرّ النظام الدولي بتغيراتٍ عميقة؛ ونتيجةً لذلك اتّخذ طابعًا من حالة الشكّ. وقد تعقَّبَ مفهوم الإستراتيجية وبحوثه هذا الاتجاه عن كثبٍ، وظهرت مفاهيم جديدة للتكيف مع التغييرات العملية والتحديات التي أحدثتها، وعملت على وصفها نظريًّا. يستكشف هذا البحث السمات غير المناسبة للمناقشات السائدة والتنظير من منظور تركي، ويقترح أن التحليل الواقعي النقدي للتخطيط الإستراتيجي هو الأكثر فائدة لمعالجة السياق الناشئ. ويرى أن تركيا تتبع إستراتيجية كبرى منذ فترة طويلة، ولكن المفاهيم الجديدة (المرونة، والقوة المتقلبة، والترابط) يمكنها أن تعزز قدرة تركيا على وضع الإستراتيجيات، ويمكنها أن تثري النقاشات الحيوية التي ظهرت مؤخرًا لاستكشاف إستراتيجية تركيا الكبرى.

Keywords

الإستراتيجية الكبرى, الواقعية النقدية, القوة الأولية, المرونة, الترابط

Exploring the Traits of a Grand Strategy for Turkey: Resilience, Protean Power, and Connectography

Abstract

The international system is experiencing profound changes and has taken on an uncertain character as a result. The concept of strategy and its study has closely followed this trend, and new concepts have emerged both to adapt to and theoretically describe the practical changes and challenges it has engendered. This article explores the ill-suited features of mainstream debates and theorizing from a Turkish perspective and suggests that a critical realist analysis of agential strategizing is most useful to addressing the emerging context. It argues that Turkey has a long pursued
grand strategy, but new concepts –resilience, protean power, and connectography– can enhance Turkey’s ability to strategize and can enrich the lately emerged vibrant debates exploring Turkey’s grand strategy.

Keywords

Grand Strategy, Critical Realism, Protean Power, Resilience, Connectographyn

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