TURKEY’S ROLE WITHIN REGIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX THEORY: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ON TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TERRORIST ATTACKS

Year 2020, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 1 - 33, 27.07.2020

Neslihan Yavuz , Barış Özdal

Abstract

Çalışma, 11 Eylül 2001 Terör Saldırıları sonrası Türk Dış Politikası (TDP)’nı analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda Türkiye’nin etkileşimde bulunduğu yakın çevresiyle kurduğu güvenlik ilişkileri incelenirken kuramsal çerçeve olarak, dünya coğrafyasını komşu devletler arasındaki tarihi dostluk ve düşmanlık ilişkilerine dayalı güvenlikleştirme süreçleri üzerinden şekillenen kompleksler biçiminde ele alan Bölgesel Güvenlik Kompleksi Teorisi (BGKT)’den yararlanılmıştır. BGKT’nin Türkiye’yi kendisini çevreleyen komplekslerin arasında, bu kompleksleri ayıran “yalıtkan” bir devlet olarak ele alan anlayışı da çalışma kapsamında özellikle irdelenmiştir. Bu bağlamda Türkiye’yi çevreleyen kompleksler içinde güvenlik ve çatışma ekseninde yaşanan gelişmelerin politik karar alıcıların siyasa belirleme sürecinde etkili olup olmadığı da analiz edilirken, Türkiye’ye atfedilen yalıtkan devlet rolünün uluslararası konjonktür içinde sürdürülebilir olup olmadığı da ileriye dönük bazı senaryolar üzerinden irdelenmiştir.

Keywords

türk dış politiksı, 11 eylül, Bölgesel Güvenlik Kompleksi Teorisi, Güvenlik, Uluslararası Terör

TURKEY’S ROLE WITHIN REGIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX THEORY: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ON TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TERRORIST ATTACKS

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) in the post September 11, 2001 TerroristAttacks period. In this regard, while examining security relations between Turkey and the neighbouringstates, it employs Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) which takes the geography as complexesthat are shaped through securitization processes based on historic friendship and hostility relationships.Further it examines the RSCT conceptualisation of Turkey as an insulator state which is excluded fromall encircling RSCs and also separating them from each other. In this regard, while analysing the impactsof security and conflict related issues in the surrounding RSCs on foreign policy making processes inTurkey, the viability of the insulator state role attributed to Turkey in the international conjuncture isalso evaluated through utilising prospective scenarios.

Keywords

Turkish Foreign Policy, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Regional Security Complex Theory, International Terrorism

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