The Increasing Importance of Turkey for U.S. Security

Abstract

There are numerous areas of foreign policy where the interests of the United States and Turkey are close, and several that could very well roil relations. They range from Israel and the Middle East peace process through the Caucasus to Iran and the European Union to human rights and political Islam. Turkey is a good friend and ally, strategically important to the United States, and moving in the right direction domestically. The purpose of this paper is to look at different aspects of the U.S.-Turkish strategic partnership and their effect on the two countries' short-term and long-term security interests. It also examines the intensity of the factors that drive the two nations toward a strategic alliance and those that could put them on opposite sides of future issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401681

Entities

People

  • Donald M. Macwillie

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Central Asia
  • Commerce
  • Department Of State
  • European Union
  • Globalization
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Minority Groups
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Treaties
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union