DAFF 25A95 - Turkey’s foreign policy in its geopolitical environment

This course aims to provide students with an analytical framework for understanding Turkey's foreign policy

in its geographical environment from 2002 to the present. The regions covered are the Balkans, the Middle

East, the Caucasus, the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea.

The year 2002 as a starting point coincides with the coming to power of the AKP (Development and Justice

Party) co-founded by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It is under the command of the AKP that Turkey is seeking to

re-establish its influence in the regions surrounding it. Indeed, the members of the AKP, who are mostly

Islamo-conservatives, seek to counter the isolationism of the Kemalists, by referring to the imperial past of

the Turkish peoples. The course will be divided into two chronological phases: from 2002 to 2011 when

Turkey bases its power strategy primarily on soft power and from 2011 to the present day when the outbreak

of the Syrian civil war sees the militarisation of Turkish foreign policy.

The course will be transversal and will address many themes related to history, geography, economics,

sociology and international law. These themes will be tools for the analysis of international relations.

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35% oral presentation / 30% short paper / 20% interrogation / 15% oral participation