Soğuk savaş ve Türkiye‘nin batıya yöneliminin sistemik bir analizi.

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Tolgahan Akdan

Danışman: MUSTAFA TÜRKEŞ

Özet:

This thesis attempts to account for the primary dynamics behind Turkey’s postwar drive to the West. It offers a conceptualization of the Cold War as an inter-systemic conflict, which then enables this study to integrate the geopolitical relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union in a systemic framework. In this regard, it suggests that the geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and Turkey should be conceived of not as an “ontologically autonomous” ahistorical geopolitical tension but rather as a derivative of the Cold War as a wider systemic conflict. Therefore, this thesis explores the mainstream and radical approaches on the Cold War and tries to locate the geopolitical conflict between Turkey and the Soviet Union into framework of inter-systemic conflict and thus show the systemic character of Turkey’s drive to the Western alliance, which amounted to a profound socio-economic integration into the international capitalist system.