Original title: Hádanka v tureckém zahraničním rozhodovacím procesu: Za spletí spojitosti a změn
Translated title: The Puzzle in the Turkish Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process: Beyond the Nexus of Continuities and Changes
Authors: Kiousi, Dimitra ; McDonagh, Ken (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee) ; Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2020
Language: eng
Abstract: The puzzle in the Turkish Foreign Policy decision-making process: Beyond the nexus of continuities and changes July 2020 International Master in Security, Intelligence, and Strategic Studies This dissertation analyses the puzzle over the nexus of continuity and change in the Turkish foreign policy decision-making process. It aims to demonstrate that in Turkey's case what seems to best explain the changing patterns in the country's foreign orientations are the so-called adjustment changes in its foreign policy outlook. This study seeks to address two interrelated research questions. The first research question is highly related to the complexity behind the nexus of consistency and inconsistency and to what extent changes in the country's foreign policy direction are radical or a product of adjustment changes. The second research question is related to how an interplay of interrelated variables can provide an insightful explanation regarding Turkey's convergences and divergences with states in high and low political salience issues. This study uses two decision models, the prominent 'Two-Level Games' introduced by Putnam, and a more recent model, the very well-known Poliheuristic theory introduced by Mintz, to demonstrate how the interplay of the individual, domestic and international component acts...
Keywords: 'Two-Level-Games'; adjustment changes; AKP; OPS; Poliheuristic theory; S-400 deal; Turkish foreign policy decision-making process; Turkstream agreement

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/177229

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