ABSTRACT
This chapter employs a critical geopolitical approach and analyses Azerbaijan's place in the changing geopolitical conceptions about Eurasia in post-Cold War Turkey. Critical geopolitics and particularly the three types of geopolitical reasoning, namely, formal, practical and popular geopolitics, it offers have so far failed to generate adequate interest among the academic circles in Turkey. The chapter identifies three geopolitical traditions in Turkey, each attributing a distinct meaning to the concept of Eurasia in the post-Cold War period. It defines these traditions as the Turkic-world-centered geopolitical tradition, the Asia-centered geopolitical tradition, and the Moslem-world-centered geopolitical tradition. The chapter looks at the emergence of a new school of thought called Turkish Eurasianism, a broader concept including various formal geopolitical meanings attributed to the concept of Eurasia in the Turkish context. Instead of treating Turkish Eurasianism as a distinct ideology, some scholars believe that they can only talk about various 'reflections' or 'interpretations' of the Eurasia concept in Turkey.
