Foreign Policy in the Light of Theories
Foreign Policy in the Light of Theories

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses a range of foreign policy theories. It also emphasizes their usefulness (or unusefulness) to explain Turkish foreign policy. The barrier between ‘political science’ and ‘international relations’ literatures needs to be broken down if we are able to bring sense of critical awareness of how we can best explain foreign policies once we reject, as this article argues we should reject, both realist and determinist ideas of the origins of foreign policy. This study will explore ideas drawn from international relations and foreign policy analysis. To emphasize the importance of linkage between domestic politics and foreign policy, not in itself an original point as Wallace shows7, the next section begins by analyzing the democracy and foreign policy. Then realist theory and its critics will follow. As this article argues that the theory of interdependence can help us to explain the evolution of Turkish foreign policy, the theory of interdependence is explained. The integration theories of functionalism and federalism are also compared to the interdependence theory. Chapter ends with a set of ideas explaining how a global interdependent new world order could be created. Turkey’s new role in an interdependent globe is also emphasized.

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