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Turkey and Russia and their Neighborhoods [1]

Global Turkey in Europe [2]

Between Appeasement and Rivalry: Turkey and Russia and their Neighborhoods

[3]
Authors:
Adam Balcer [4]
08/05/2015

Contrary to common knowledge, Turkey does not refrain from challenging Russia in its neighborhood. A substantial difference exists between Turkey’s policy towards Russia in the Black Sea region and in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. In the case of the latter, Turkey is much more assertive. However, Turkey seems not to realize that its self-constraint in the Black Sea region is only encouraging Russia to be more of a bully in the Middle East. If Turkey wants to more efficiently counterbalance Russia in the Middle East, it should align its foreign policy more substantially with the West in the Black Sea region.

Paper produced within the framework of the project Turkey, Europe and the World [5].

gte_c_22.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Roma, Istituto affari internazionali, May 2015, 3 p.
  • In:
    Global Turkey in Europe [2]
  • Issue

    Commentary 22

Table of contents

Introduction
Zero-sum Game: Russia’s Worldview
The Geopolitical Competition in Syria
The Lessons for Turkey


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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c15/turkey-and-russia-and-their-neighborhoods [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/global-turkey-europe [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/gte_c_22.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/adam-balcer [5] https://www.iai.it/en/ricerche/global-turkey-europe