Navigating Buffer State Sovereignty: Turkey’s Foreign Policy Role Conflicts
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Political Science · International Relations
A new study uses role theory to explain how buffer states like Turkey navigate foreign policy pressures from competing great powers. The research analyzes Turkey’s diplomatic maneuvers during and immediately after World War II, demonstrating how it employed strategies such as compromise, avoidance, and direct resolution to avoid being constrained to a passive buffer role. For you as a writer and world citizen interested in philosophy and international dynamics, this offers a nuanced framework for understanding how smaller nations exercise agency and sovereignty within geopolitical power structures.
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