Turkey: Thwarted Ambition

Abstract

At the end of the Cold War every Country was forced to reexamine the fundamental assumptions that had formed their security policies for the last 45 years. Among the "victors" of the Cold War, few countries were faced with a more disparate set of new circumstances than Turkey. Unlike the United States and Western Europe, "victory" for Turkey had a very ambivalent quality. Almost overnight Turkey moved from being the buttressing flank of one strategic region, to the epicenter of a new one.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA421965

Entities

People

  • Simon V. Mayall

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Economic Systems
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Market Economy
  • Military Science
  • Minority Groups
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Recreation
  • Treaties
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Strategic Security Studies