Turkey and the west: from neutrality to commitment

Abstract

Over the last few decades, as the country, people, culture and many other aspects of Turkey have become ever more popular, much research has been conducted and published on Turkish history as well as on its domestic and foreign policy. Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment is one such academic work. This work attempts to unravel the complexities of world politics (covering regions as diverse as Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Far East) in the post-Atatürk period (1938 to 1958) with special attention given to the formulation of Turkish foreign policy. The primary objective set forth by the book is to analyze and explain Turkey’s uneasy shift from neutrality to becoming a member of the Western Alliance