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The New Ambitions of Turkey for a Multivector Policy in a Pluralist World

Publication date: 21.11.2024

Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 271 - 286

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543733XSSB.24.015.20039

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Vihren Bouzov
The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-9006 Orcid
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The New Ambitions of Turkey for a Multivector Policy in a Pluralist World

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The paper attempts to find an answer to the question of how a successful multivector policy by Turkey would be possible in todays world of escalating global conflicts. This seems to have been bequeathed by Atatürk, and one could say that RT Erdogans mission is to achieve it and pass it on to his successors. This policy helped at the beginning of the Turkish Revolution to defeat foreign troops and establish a secular democratic republic. In the last two decades, it has become possible again in the conditions of the worlds development from a unipolar to a multipolar world. Thanks to this, Turkey can solve its most important national security problems, such as curbing Kurdish intentions for independence and conducting a nationally responsible policy with all its neighbors and especially with the major geopolitical powers. One can say that Turkeys influence on decisions and actions in the field of security in several regions is testimony to the trend of its transformation from a regional to a great power. Successes in this regard are based on the consistent and uncompromising policy in defense of ones own national interests, the successful finding of allies in the direction of the geopolitical wind and the understanding of the mutual complementarity of various political and economic processes. This analysis has been carried out through the methodology of the theory of regional security complexes.

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Information: Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 271 - 286

Article type: Original article

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-9006

Vihren Bouzov
The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-9006 Orcid
All publications →

The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Published at: 21.11.2024

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Vihren Bouzov is a Professor of Philosophy of Law and Logic at St. Cyril and St. MethodiusUniversity of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. Member of International Society of Universal Dialogue and Bulgarian Philosophical Society. Dean of its Faculty of Philosophy (20032011) and since 2018 he has been a Vice-Rector for Quality Assurance and Accreditation. He has coordinated a numer international and national scientific projects. Prof. Bouzov teaches courses of lectures on Logic, Culture of Thinking and Philosophy of Law for philosophy and law-students and Crises of Regional Security for security students. He has many publications in English in the fields of Legal Philosophy, Security Studies and Logic in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy and other countries.

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