Introduction -- pt. 1. Taking root -- Imperial legacies -- Republican foundations -- Cracks in the edifice -- pt. 2. Taking sail -- Turgut Özal and the gates of desire -- pt. 3. Floundering -- The years of living dangerously -- Dead ends -- Paradigm crisis -- Conclusion: a second sailing?
Summary
"Malik argues that Turkeys security policy is dominated by an insular and risk-averse 'Republican' strategic culture paradigm, that this paradigm has fallen into crisis, bringing some of its core elements in conflict with others, and that this crisis has permitted the reassertion of a more cosmopolitan and risk-taking 'Imperial' counter-paradigm"--Provided by publisher
