Turkey’s New Activism in Asia

Yıl 2009, Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2, 24 - 39, 16.06.2009

Bulent Aras Kenan Dagci M. Efe Caman

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This article aims to analyse Turkey’s foreign policy towards Asia, which is part of Turkey’s emerging universal foreign policy vision. The notion of geographic imagination is provided to theorize Turkey’s emerging policy attitudes and behaviors. Turkey’s involvement in Asia will focus on the development of economic relations, security cooperation, supporting Asian political schemes for a multilateral world order and playing a facilitator role in Asia’s encounter with the West. This new foreign policy orientation links the reform and change in the domestic landscape and Turkey’s new activism in Asia, which has opened new horizons in its relations with Asian states and has encouraged policy-makers in their search for a central role in a number of regions ranging from Africa to Asia.

 Keywords: Turkey, Asia, regional politics, critical geopolitics, geographic imagination.

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