Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East
This book narrates how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000s Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign policies and aligned their positions on many critical and controversial issu
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Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East
Birol Başkan
Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East
Birol Başkan School of Foreign Service in Qatar Georgetown University Doha, Qatar
ISBN 978-1-137-51770-8 ISBN 978-1-137-51771-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51771-5
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To my late father, Şefik ‘Baytar’ Başkan
PREFACE
This book examines the foreign policies of Turkey and Qatar in the post9/11 period. More specifically, it examines how Turkey and Qatar have swum through the tidal waves unleashed successively by the US invasion of Iraq, the intensification of the geopolitical rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the promises and fallouts of the Arab Spring. The book contextualizes the experiences, successes, and failures of Turkey and Qatar in international politics within a broader discussion of the geopolitics of the region, as the latter has been shaped by the intensifying rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the same period. With the onset of the Arab Spring, this rivalry exploded into bloody conflicts that are still raging in Syria and Yemen. I wished to write this book in order to fill a gap. That gap is ever growing, as scholarly treatments of Turkey’s and Qatar’s foreign policies before and after the Arab Spring by and large ignore one another. The few attempts addressing Turkey–Qatar relations are either Turkey- or Qatarcentric, and rarely contextualize the relationships between the two countries within the broader geopolitics of the Middle East.1 This is what I aim to do in this book. The challenge I have faced in writing the book is that the period under consideration has not yet passed into histo
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