Dengeleme mi Peşine Takılmak mı?: Dış Politika Stratejilerini Yeniden Düşünmek
Balancing vs. Bandwagoning?: Rethinking Foreign Policy Strategies

Summary/Abstract: How do states achieve their main goals in foreign policy is one of the basic debates in the IR discipline. In some cases, states are obliged to make a decision between searching for more power, more security or more wealth. The primary question this study seeks to answer is: how states prioritize among these options. Because strategies that states use to achieve their foreign policy goals can be differentiated. However, in the Realist-oriented foreign policy analysis literature it is widely accepted that states seek to maximize their own power and capacity, and balancing is the basic strategy for state security. This study argues that especially after the end of the Cold War, new strategies are used and those strategies are valuable for analyzing and understanding state behaviors. Therefore, recently bandwagoning which is one of the most referred strategies like balancing should be discussed. This study deals with how we can define, classify and evaluate both strategies in terms of understanding state behaviors. This study also tries to answer that why and how states employ balancing or bandwagoning if they have to choose one of them? How do states make a choice between these two strategies?

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