Turkey’s Rise as an Emerging Power

Emel Parlar Dal received her PhD from Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University in France and is Associate Professor of International Relations at Marmara University.H. Tarik Oğuzlu is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for Social, Economic, and Political Research at Antalya International University.Paul Kubicek is Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Oakland University. He is editor of Turkish Studies.

• 1. Decoding Turkey’s Rise: An Introduction Profiling Turkey as a Rising Power and the Facilitating Factors at Play 2. Turkey: A Regional Power Facing a Changing International System 3. The Transformation of the Geopolitical Vision in Turkish Foreign Policy Categorizing Turkey as “Rising”: Alternative Conceptual Lenses and Theoretical Approaches 4. Beyond the Institutional Logics: International Level Systemic Analysis of EU–Turkish Relations 5. Assessing Turkey’s “Normative” Power in the Middle East and North Africa Region: New Dynamics and their Limitations 6. Turkey’s Peacebuilding in Somalia: The Limits of Humanitarian Diplomacy 7. Turkey and the BRICS: Can Turkey Join the BRICS? Making Sense of Turkey’s Rise With/Within the West 8. Making Sense of Turkey’s Rising Power Status: What Does Turkey’s Approach Within NATO Tell Us? 9. Defining Turkish Power: Turkey as a Rising Power Embedded in the Western International System

Arguably, this anthology on scientific, analytical level, as it may be interesting for professionals to delve into. It is well written, informative and insightful. Therefore, TURKEY's Rise as an Emerging Power rekommanderes for its vision and detailed examination of the distinctive and relevant issues in Turkey's current politiko-economic situation and geo-strategic position as an "emerging power". Flemming André Philip Raven, The magazine Epsilons editor