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Cover -- Author Bio -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kemalist Policy towards the Outside Turks -- 3. Post-Kemalist Policy towards the Outside Turks -- 4. Overseas Implications of Domestic Norms -- 5. Outside Turks Locality in Kosovo - Making of Kosovar Turks -- 6. Emergence of Post-Kemalist Norms concerning Outside Turks -- 7. Cascade of Post-Kemalist Norms to Kosovo -- 8. Local Responses to Post-Kemalist Socialisation -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Appendix V -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume studies the contemporary dynamics of conflict and cooperation within Eurasia with reference to interdependencies, partnerships and contestations on regional security, energy, democratic transition, and trade. Its key concern, in a broader sense, is, therefore, to understand the various outcomes of post-Soviet regional transformation and the intra- and inter-regional integrative or dismantling interaction making the regional countries hopeful or pessimistic about the future of their immediate and extended neighbourhood within contemporary Eurasia.The contributions here unfold the contemporary strategies of individual states with regards to cooperation, on the one hand, and the unavoidable conflicts in both bilateral relations and on a regional level, on the other. The chapters examine, with reference to central Eurasia, the root causes and the transitive character of conflict and cooperation, regional security dynamics and competing security complexes, and rising powers' increasing involvement in the equation favouring cooperation via trade. As such, this book provides a better understanding of both the issues and the challenges the wider Eurasian region is currently experiencing.

Turkey has faced, in the last two decades, a number of critical events, like wars, conflicts and frictions in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, that have represented a huge challenge for its foreign policy and civil and economic interventions. Turkish multi-directionality and multidimensionality have been tested by these occurrences, demonstrating that what some scholars and experts had defined as a "model" contained failures as well as success.This book examines these dynamics through case studies of the humanitarian, cultural, economic and political dimensions of Turkey's role in a diffuse neighbourhood, in which the country has tried to exert its power in recent decades.Starting from the questions that the Cold War and the arrival of the AKP in government have opened for Ankara, the volume illustrates two of the most important sides of the Turkish strategic repositioning in the international system. The first part is focused on the main humanitarian and political struggles in contemporary Turkish society, while the second explores the main fault-lines in Turkey's regional policy and the development of the country's foreign policy. As such, the book represents a valuable resource for both graduate and undergraduate students, academics and researchers in the areas of Turkish studies, foreign policy, regional politics, Middle Eastern studies, security, political economy and European studies as well as for the general public.