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Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East

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  • © 2016

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  1. Birol Başkan

    1. School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Washington, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Birol Başkan
    Pages 1-4

  3. 9/11 and the Changing Regional Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Earthquake: The 9/11 Attacks and the US Response

      • Birol Başkan
      Pages 7-13

    3. Unsettling the Middle East: The Implications of the US Rhetoric and Action

      • Birol Başkan
      Pages 15-31

  4. The Rise of Turkey and Qatar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Enter Turkey and Qatar

      • Birol Başkan
      Pages 35-79

  5. The Arab Spring: The Rise and Fall of the Brotherhood Crescent

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. The Arab Spring Erupts, Turkey and Qatar Respond

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      Pages 83-122

    3. The Coup and Its Aftermath

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      Pages 123-137

    4. The Future Place of Turkey in the Middle East

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      Pages 139-142

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 143-147
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About this book

This book narrates how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000s Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign policies and aligned their positions on many critical and controversial issues. By doing so, however, they increasingly isolated themselves in the Middle East as states challenging the status quo. The claim made here is that it is this isolation—which became acute in the summer of 2013—that led the two countries to forge much stronger relations.

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“This excellent book provides a wealth of empirical evidence and detailed policy analysis on Turkey and Qatar's strategic calculations in a rapidly changing Middle East.  If you want to understand how Qatar has become Turkey's most trusted ally in the Arab world, this is a must read.  As a scholar who is intimately familiar with both the Qatari and Turkish domestic context, Birol Başkan has produced an essential account for researchers and policy makers.” (Ömer Taşpınar, Professor at the National War College, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute)

“At a time when Qatar and Turkey have emerged as central actors in shifting geopolitical alignments in the Middle East, Başkan has written a highly nuanced, timely, and perceptive analysis of one of the region's most significant developments. This is a solid book that is at once in-depth and accessible. I highly recommend it.” (Mehran Kamrava, Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Washington, USA

    Birol Başkan

About the author

Birol Başkan is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, USA, and previously taught at the State University of New York-Fredonia, USA, and Qatar University. He has published in numerous academic journals such as Politics and Religion, Insight Turkey, Arab Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and International Sociology. He is the author of From Religious Empires to Secular States (2014) and the co-editor of State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States (2014).

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