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LA TURQUIE : L’INVENTION D’UNE DIPLOMATIE ÉMERGENTE
La Turquie : l’invention d’une diplomatie émergente [Turkey : The Invention of an Emerging Diplomacy], Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017, 345 p., foreword by Bertrand Badie.
جنى جبور (ترجمة)، تركيا: دبلوماسية القوة الناهضة، المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، بيروت، 2019
This book is not “yet another” book on Turkish foreign policy. As Bertrand Badie writes in the foreword, it represents a “turning point in Turkish studies” and is “added value to political science literature”.
Breaking with traditional approaches to Turkish foreign policy, the book examines Turkey’s international relations under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan through the lens of middle rising powers and their quest for status and recognition in world affairs. It argues that Ankara’s proactive diplomacy in the Middle East in the 2000s is driven by a rising power’s attempt to build a regional sphere of influence and assert itself as a major regional and global power. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the author offers a comprehensive study of Turkey’s foreign policy under the rule of the AKP by examining the political economy of such policy, analyzing the interests of domestic stakeholders who shape it, and exploring its impact on Turkish society. The book looks at the evolution of Turkish foreign policy in the region before and after the Arab uprisings. The author focuses on the Syria crisis as a paradigmatic case of the difficulties and limits of Ankara’s rising power diplomacy, and shows the “boomerang effect” that Syria has had on domestic politics in Turkey. Based on the case study of Turkey, the book draws conclusions on the limits, challenges, and vulnerabilities of rising powers, highlighting the mismatch between rising powers’ ambitions and their actual capacities and resources.
Read the book reviews:
Cem Savas, « Jabbour, Jana J. La Turquie. L’invention d’une diplomatie émergente. Paris : CNRS Editions, 2017 », in European Review of International Studies (ERIS), Vol. 4, Issue 2/3. 2017, pp. 109-112 . Download here
Christian Lochon, « La Turquie. L’invention d’une diplomatie émergente », Catalogue des Recensions de l’ Academie des sciences d’outre-mer, July 2019. Download here
Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec, « Jabbour, Jana J. La Turquie. L’invention d’une diplomatie émergente. Paris : CNRS Editions, 2017 », in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM), 146, December 2019. Read here
Anthony Samrani, « La montée en puissance turque au Moyen-Orient et ses limites » , L’Orient le Jour, 6 mars 2017. Read here
Carole André-Dessornes, « La Turquie : un géant aux pieds d’argile ? » , L’Orient Littéraire, April 2017. Read here
Marc Semo, “Istanbul, vitrine ottomane d’une Turquie post-impériale”, Le Monde, February 2017. Read here
Johanna Ollier, « Du modèle turc au systeme Erdogan : Vers une nouvelle Turquie ? », in Revue Internationale et Strategique (RIS), 2017/2, No. 106, pp. 133-139. Download here
Aurelien Denizeau, « La Turquie. L’invention d’une diplomatie émergente », in Politique Etrangere, No. 3, 2017. Read here
Hoda El Raii [Book review in Arabic], Annahar, 2 March 2017. Read here