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Article: TURKEY: Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War
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- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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TURKEY Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War, by Philip Robins. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003. xiii + 387 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 389. Index to p. 404. $30 paper.
Philip Robins's aptly named Suits and Uniforms represents the most systematic analysis of modern Turkish foreign policy. Written before the most recent Iraq war, the emergence of the new justice and Development Party government and the dilemmas encountered by the new leadership with the gathering war clouds, the book is refreshing in its attempt to understand the interplay of domestic factors, actors, ideology and endowments, with the world outside Turkey's boundaries.
Robins wants to ...