TY - JOUR
TI - The New Ambitions of Turkey for a Multivector Policy in a Pluralist World
AU - Bouzov, Vihren
TI - The New Ambitions of Turkey for a Multivector Policy in a Pluralist World
AB - The paper attempts to find an answer to the question of how a successful multivector policy by Turkey would be possible in today’s world of escalating global conflicts. This seems to have been bequeathed by Atatürk, and one could say that RT Erdogan’s 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 world’s 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 Turkey’s 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 one’s 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.
VL - 2024
IS - Volume XXXIII
PY - 2024
SN - 2451-4993
C1 - 2543-733X
SP - 271
EP - 286
DO - 10.4467/2543733XSSB.24.015.20039
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ssb/article/the-new-ambitions-of-turkey-for-a-multivector-policy-in-a-pluralist-world
KW - regions of power
KW - theory of regional security complexes
KW - Turkey