Strategic Consequences of September 11 toward Middle East and Turkey
Author(s)
Gokce, Orhan; Akgun, Birol
Abstract
This study aims to examine the strategic implications of September 11 on the greater Middle East, Central Asia and Turkey. First the paper overviews the conceptual and theoretical framework that developed in the aftermath of September 11 so as to better understand the systemic changes in world politics. Here we will especially make us of explanatory approaches, such as Brzezinski’s hegemonic theory and Barnett’s global integration models to understand the emergence of unipolarism in world politics and the changing American security and foreign policies in the last decade. Later we will deal with the strategic consequences of the redefinition of American foreign policy objectives which have been increasingly characterized by a unilateralist approach to world politics and growing willingness to use military force especially in the Middle East and Eurasia.
