@book {37876, title = {Turkey{\textquoteright}s Relations with Israel: The First Sixty Two Years, 1948-2010}, year = {Forthcoming}, pages = {432}, publisher = {Routledge }, organization = {Routledge }, address = {London}, abstract = {

This book offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of Turkey{\textquoteright}s relations with Israel since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, up until 2010 and places them within the wider framework of Turkey{\textquoteright}s foreign policy. It highlights the remarkable lack of consistency in Turkey{\textquoteright}s foreign policy towards Israel, under different Turkish governments, which has given the relationship a pervasive sense of unpredictability.\ 

Combining empirical-analytical evidence with role theory insights, as developed in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), it explores Turkish foreign policy makers{\textquoteright} perceptions regarding the proper role and function of the country in the international system and the sub-system of the Middle East and how they affected the policy towards Israel. The author argues that Ankara{\textquoteright}s ambivalent policy towards Israel for over sixty years can be explained by Turkey{\textquoteright}s multiple and often contradictory national role conceptions. The study, which draws from archival material and over fifty interviews with Turkish, Israeli, American and Arab officials and experts, places Ankara{\textquoteright}s policy into a larger analytical framework, which helps link the past to the present and future.

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