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The article examines Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) chronologically, using the Arab uprisings as a ... more The article examines Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) chronologically, using the Arab uprisings as a critical juncture and an important contra-game setter. This study compares Turkey’s foreign policy before and after the uprisings period and analyses Turkey’s new foreign policy adjustments in the Middle East from a comparative theoretical framework of Davutoğlu’s foreign policy vision that encompasses liberal, constructivist and realist elements. Foreign policy under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) era has proceeded over a decade and, recently, with the new circumstances as a result of the Arab uprisings, the AKP’s policy has distanced itself from the main objectives that had been previously established. We argue that in light of recent developments, TFP has approached realist concerns in the policies concerning the Middle East. Calling a third phase in the post-2011 period, recalibration of the foreign policy stresses the role of new directions in foreign policy together with miscalculations in an atmosphere of uncertainty in the region. By asserting the effects of recalibration in TFP, we put these new alterations in the foreign policy into a theoretical framework with empirical support. We intend to provide a valuable contribution to the study of TFP and the politics of the Middle East.
The article examines Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) chronologically, using the Arab uprisings as a ... more The article examines Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) chronologically, using the Arab uprisings as a critical juncture and an important contra-game setter. This study compares Turkey’s foreign policy before and after the uprisings period and analyses Turkey’s new foreign policy adjustments in the Middle East from a comparative theoretical framework of Davutoğlu’s foreign policy vision that encompasses liberal, constructivist and realist elements. Foreign policy under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) era has proceeded over a decade and, recently, with the new circumstances as a result of the Arab uprisings, the AKP’s policy has distanced itself from the main objectives that had been previously established. We argue that in light of recent developments, TFP has approached realist concerns in the policies concerning the Middle East. Calling a third phase in the post-2011 period, recalibration of the foreign policy stresses the role of new directions in foreign policy together with miscalculations in an atmosphere of uncertainty in the region. By asserting the effects of recalibration in TFP, we put these new alterations in the foreign policy into a theoretical framework with empirical support. We intend to provide a valuable contribution to the study of TFP and the politics of the Middle East.