Another Empire A Decade of Turkey s Foreign Policy under The Justice and Development Party — Kerem Öktem Ayşe Kadıoğlu Mehmet Karlı

Another Empire indeed draws on a conference with the title Turkeys foreign policy in a changing world Old alignments and new neighbourhoods İN May 2010 Today Turkey is struggling to be many things at once from regional hegemon order setter and middle power to trading state and model democracy in the Middle East and North Africa in Southeast Europe in the Caucasus in Central Asia and beyond It does so with varying success as its ties with the European Union are becoming increasingly tenuous and Turkeys international role is reshaped by creeping re Atlanticisation as well as growing unilateralism The policies of empire the debate on Turkeys orientation as well as its convincingness as a model of democracy remain at the heart of the paradox of Turkeys foreign policy and its role in the world