Turkey Anglo American Security Interests 1945 1952

Author : Ekavi Athanassopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136316922
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952 written by Ekavi Athanassopoulou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American and British security considerations toward the region evolved between 1947 and 1952 and the impact Turkey's pressure had on American and British security thinking.

Author : Jamil Hasanli
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916807X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953 written by Jamil Hasanli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a truepicture of the time when the "Turkish crisis" of the Cold War broke out. It explains why and how the friendly relations between the USSR and Turkey escalated into enmity, led to the increased confrontation between these two countries, and ended up with Turkey's entry into NATO. Hasanli uses recently-released Soviet archive documents to shed light on some dark points of the Cold War era and the relations between the Soviets and the West. Apart from bringing in an original point of view regarding starting of the Cold War, the book reveals some secret sides of the Soviet domestic and foreign policies. The book convincingly demonstrates how Soviet political technologists led by Josef Stalin distorted the picture of a friendly and peaceful country—Turkey—intothe image of an enemy in the minds of millions of Soviet citizens.

Author : Gavin D. Brockett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292723598
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk written by Gavin D. Brockett and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize" the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkey's status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation. In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish national identity, focusing on the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the process through which a "religious national identity" emerged. Challenging the orthodoxy that Atatürk and the political elite imposed a sense of national identity from the top down, Brockett examines the social and political debates in provincial newspapers from around the country. He shows that the unprecedented expansion of print media in Turkey between 1945 and 1954, which followed the end of strict, single-party authoritarian government, created a forum in which ordinary people could inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism. Brockett makes a convincing case that it was this fruitful negotiation between secular nationalism and Islam—rather than the imposition of secularism alone—that created the modern Turkish national identity.

Author : Zeynep Gülsah Çapan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783487852
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Writing International Relations written by Zeynep Gülsah Çapan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a possible way of reading and re-writing the Eurocentrism of International Relations. The method proposed to re-write histories of the manifestations and criticisms of Eurocentrism is through ‘connected histories’. The first section of the book focuses on manifestations of Eurocentrism in and through disciplinary formations and geopolitical contexts. This section explores the ‘field of IR’ as a problematic unit that already assumes a coloniality of power. It questions the existence of ‘fields of study’ and the borders between them by examining the permeability between history and IR, and highlighting how Eurocentric assumptions about world politics are reproduced in the different ‘fields’. The second section of the book focuses on criticisms of Eurocentrism in and through disciplines and geopolitical contexts. This setion explores the different ways in which theoretical strategies criticizing Eurocentrism were formulated in conversation with each other across disciplines and geopolitical contexts.

Author : Behçet Kemal Yesilbursa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666926469
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Defense Projects in the Postwar Middle East written by Behçet Kemal Yesilbursa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to explore Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East between 1945 and 1955 and the attempts of these two Western powers to contain the Soviet expansion towards the region. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive history of British and American policies in the Middle East. Instead, it aims to explore those policies with a particular focus on the problems of Middle East defence. It also seeks to determine the aims behind the proposals of MEC, MEDO, NTDC and BP, their failings, and the struggle that was undertaken against them by hostile countries, such as Egypt, India and the Soviet Union. It examines the events surrounding their formation, development and collapse. Furthermore, it explores the policies of the regional countries, namely Turkey, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. Thus, it poses the questions of how the participating countries perceived the question of Middle East defence, what their basic aims were, and what problems they faced while trying to achieve these aims and implementing their chosen solutions.

Author : Sotiris Rizas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498539912
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism and Human Rights in US Policy toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus written by Sotiris Rizas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book is the interplay between Realism and Human Rights in the formulation of US policy towards Greece and Turkey with respect to the Cyprus and the Aegean disputes and the domestic politics of the two countries from the Truman to the Carter administration. The policies of successive administrations, and those of Johnson and Nixon in the 1960s and 1970s, were formulated upon the requirements of containment as this was conceived in 1946-47 by the Truman administration. Realpolitik dominated the agenda and issues related to values and norms were secondary although not unimportant. Whenever a choice had to be made between realpolitik and human rights the former was the main consideration of American policy-makers. Although committed to the recalibration of US foreign policy toward human rights, the Carter administration did not depart from these premises in the formulation of its policy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Ian O. Lesser
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Progra
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Suspicion written by Ian O. Lesser and published by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Progra. This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dionysios Chourchoulis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739193066
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Flank of NATO, 1951–1959 written by Dionysios Chourchoulis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951-52, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization established the Southern Flank, a strategy for the defense of the eastern Mediterranean in the Cold War involving Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Among its many aims, the Southern Flank sought to mobilize these countries as allies and integrate them into the Western defense system. Throughout the 1950s, the alliance developed the Southern Flank and in 1959 it was finally stabilized as fractious Greek-Turkish relations were improved by the temporary settlement over Cyprus. The Southern Flank of NATO, 1951–1959: Military Strategy or Political Stabilization examines, among other things, the initial negotiations of 1951-52, the Southern Flank’s structure and function and relative value in NATO’s overall policy, and the alliance’s response to the challenges in the eastern Mediterranean in the early Cold War. It explores not only the military aspects of the Southern Flank, but also the more controversial political aspects: the admission of Greece and Turkey to NATO, the short-lived military cooperation between these states and Yugoslavia during 1953-55 and the effects of the deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations from 1955 due to Cyprus. It also focuses on the part played by other major members of the alliance, principally the United States and Britain, in Southern Flank politics and strategy. Thus, it considers how the United States and the U.K. viewed the power balance between the three Southern Flank members and how the Americans sought to influence affairs through financial, military and technical assistance, including the construction of U.S. bases in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. The book also assesses the threat posed to the Southern Flank at various points by rising tensions in the Middle East. More generally, the book illuminates the complexities of intra-alliance dynamics in a region full of Cold War tensions. However, in its Middle Eastern/Eastern Mediterranean neighborhood, it was not only the Cold War that provided tensions, since the Arab-Israeli dispute and the tensions of decolonization further complicated the picture. Thus, the study of the Southern Flank is a test case of a Cold War theater which was subjected to additional historical pressures, creating a nexus of problems which the Western Alliance needed to address within its effort to respond to the various challenges of the Cold War.

Author : C. Örnek Konu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137326697
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turkey in the Cold War written by C. Örnek Konu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War in Turkey. Departing from the conventional focus on diplomacy and military, the collection focuses on Cold War's impact on Turkish society and intellectuals. It includes chapters on media and propaganda, literature, sports, as well as foreign aid and assistance.

Author : Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475043
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy as Nation Making written by Reem Abou-El-Fadl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison of Turkey's and Egypt's diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships' nation making projects.