THE ANALYSIS OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY IN SYRIA: A NEOCLASSICAL REALIST PERSPECTIVE ANALIZA TURECKIEJ POLITYKI ZAGRANICZNEJ W SYRII: PERSPEKTYWA REALIZMU NEOKLASYCZNEGO
Przeglad Strategiczny, sa.15, ss.43-58, 2022 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.14746/ps.2022.1.3
- Dergi Adı: Przeglad Strategiczny
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.43-58
- Anahtar Kelimeler: AKP, Middle East, Neoclassical Realism, Syrian Civil War, Turkish Foreign Policy
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Since 2011, the Syrian Civil War has become an arena of international competition between regional and global powers. As a dominant regional actor, Turkey has important interests in this conflict. However, although great importance is given to civil war factors and power balances at the field level, Turkey’s internal conditions play a role as well as these externalities. Therefore, an analysis of Turkey’s foreign policy towards Syria from a local perspective is needed to reveal some negligible dynamics. In this direction, this study aims to analyse Turkey’s foreign policy towards Syria, taking into account the interaction between Turkey’s external and internal dynamics within the framework of neoclassical realist theory. Within this scope, we ask “how do Turkish external and internal dynamics explain its foreign policy in Syria?” as the leading search question and conduct our analysis using the explanatory case study method. Based on our findings, we provide a broad perspective on the significant impacts of four main internal factors on Turkish foreign policy, from the start of the Civil War to the most recent “Operation Spring Shield” by the Turkish Army and local Syrian armed groups.