TY  - JOUR
T1  - Diverging Perceptions Of The Cold War: Baghdad Pact As A Source Of Conflict Between Turkey And The Nationalist Arab Countries
TT  - Diverging Perceptions Of The Cold War: Baghdad Pact As A Source Of Conflict Between Turkey And The Nationalist Arab Countries
AU  - Uzer, Umut
AU  - Uzer, Ayşe
PY  - 2005
DA  - May
DO  - 10.1501/Intrel_0000000105
JF  - The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
PB  - Ankara Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 0544-1943
SP  - 101
EP  - 118
IS  - 36
LA  - en
AB  - Cold War dynamics compelled Turkey and the nationalist Arab   countries, particularly Egypt and Syria, to join two opposing camps.   Conflicting geopolitical interests betvveen Turkey and the nationalist Arab   countries led to a rivalry for regional hegemony and an alignment pattern   inimical to the security of the other countries. Turkey's membership in NATO   in 1952 and the establishment of the Baghdad Pact in 1955 caused concern   for the Egyptian president Gamal abd-al Nasser, vvho perceived those pacts as   tools of Western imperialism. On the other hand, for Turkey these pacts vvere   guarantors of Turkish security against an expansionist Soviet Union.   Diverging threat perceptions betvveen Turkey and the radical Arab states   resulted in a tense atmosphere in the Middle East sub-system.
KW  - The Baghdad Pact
KW  - Turkish foreign policy
KW  - Syrian foreign policy
KW  - Egyptian foreign policy
KW  - Adnan Menderes
KW  - Gamal abd-al Nasser
KW  - Cold War.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000105
ER  -