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Most key elements of Turkey’s strategic culture took shape during the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire around the turn of the twentieth century. They grew out of a breakdown in the verities that had previously sustained the institutions of the state and animated its actions at home and abroad. External pressures underscored the growing incommensurability between imperial structures and outlooks on the one hand, and new security imperatives on the other. In the end, salvation was sought in a new order with much narrower horizons. Its birth pangs — the crucible of Republican strategic culture — proved extremely painful.
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Mufti, M. (2009). Imperial Legacies. In: Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230251151_2
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