ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the long-term dynamics of Turkish foreign policy to better understand its underlying structures and current, as well as past, travails. It first looks at the fundamental parameters that have informed policy-makers over the course of the last hundred years. Then, manifestations of the country’s choices in its international relations during the Cold War and early post-Cold War era are analysed. Finally, it probes the contemporary adaptation to the changing structural realities inside and outside the country, which challenge the basic parameters of hitherto long-term certainties.
