Turquia:dicotomias e ambivalências de uma possível potência regional / "Turkey: dichotomies and ambivalences of a possible regional power"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The aim of this research is to evaluate Turkeys Geopolitics after the tectonic forces that reshaped the balance of power and the geopolitcs at a world level. Since its foundation after the Ottoman Empire break up in the years immediately following World War I, Ankara started to adapt itself in Western structures, such as NATO. The collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe, raised some doubts about Turkeys importance to the West. However, the aftershocks at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the War on Terrorism launched by the US and its allies, pushed Turkey from the Western periphery to the very center of world politics, thrusting Turkey into an increasingly role in the Middle East, the Southeastern Europe, and Caucasus/ Central Asia. In addition, its geopolitcal position interpreted by some scholars reinforced its strategic and, at some extend, crucial position to the West and to the system evolution. At the same time, Turkeys aspiration to become a member of the European Union, its ethnic, linguistic and religious affinities to the Turkic republics combined with the energy resources issues eastwards and its security concerns in the Middle East, reveal the complexity and the challenges facing Turkey.

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islã sudeste europeu middle east nato otan pan-turkism turkish geopolitics european union enlargement regional power balance of power southern europe cáucaso oriente médio geopolítica da turquia caucasus potência regional pan-turquismo turkey turquia união européia

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