Conclusions Drawn from Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy

Acknowledging the necessity of making critical analyses and research in foreign policy, the authors who contributed to this volume titled Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy have all attempted to leave their trace by asking timely questions to understand the ruptures, insecurities, temporalities, and identity crises in Turkey’s foreign policy. In this way, this book not only examines a number of selected and significant issues in Turkey’s contemporary foreign policy but also elaborates on the ideas, discourses, actors, processes, and structures in foreign policy-making and the temporal and inconsistent character of the foreign policy ecosystem. Showing the multi-layered, split, and complicated character of the social entity called “state”, this volume understands foreign policy not as an interest and result oriented pre-determined endeavour but as a social terrain where discourses, power hierarchies, transforming identities, norms, representations, and negotiations take place. In this way, this volume does not only contribute to the critical analyses of Turkey’s foreign policy and but also to the Foreign Policy Analysis as an academic field.