Global security calculus; Forcing the Turkish-American Strategic Alliance to new Orientations

Authors : Burcu BOSTANOĞLU

Pages : 227-245

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000025

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Publication Date : 2000-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In recent developments of globality, states, albeit reluctantly, have `relinquished` some of their decision making powers, not to a higher authority but to a process where interests have become impossible to define relative to national boundaries. In this changing world, security has acquired a `new` meaning: Until the end of the Cold War, security essentially meant defending and protecting the territories of states from other states who were perceived as sources of threat, whether individually or in concert with others. Amidst the mercurial turnabouts, security is no longer just a problem of territoriality. It has become supra-national, crossnational and has expanded to encompass a set of individual and collective values relating to life, rather than sheer borderlines. 
Keywords : Global security, Turkish American, Strategic Alliance