Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the nature, direction, and impact of Turkey¿s foreign relations in its neighborhood¿a region that encompasses Europe, the Middle East, the Black and Caspian Seas, and the Caucasus. The authors of this original collection explore those changes, the causes behind them, and their impact on Turkey¿s ties with its traditional allies in the West.

"[This book] examines how Iraq's evolving political order affects its complex relationships with its neighbors and the United States. The book depicts a region unbalanced, shaped by new and old tensions, struggling with a classic collective action dilemma, and anxious about Iraq's political future, as well as America's role in the region, all of which suggest trouble ahead absent concerted efforts to promote regional cooperation. In the volume's case studies ... [scholars] review Iraq's bilateral relationships with Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Arab states, Syria, and Jordan and explore how Iraq's neighbors could advance the country's transition to security and stability. The volume also looks at the United States' relations with and long-term strategic interests in Iraq and offers recommendations for how the United States can help Iraq strengthen and grow"--Page 4 of cover.

A multifaceted study of Turkey's diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.

Working from a unique viewpoint, this volume demonstrates how the European Union's fear of its neighbors reflects Europe's identity crisis—and challenges its survival. Taking a novel approach to the current situation in Europe, foreign policy analyst Fabrizio Tassinari transforms external policy concerns about Europe's neighborhood into questions about Europe's internal future. His contention: that the situation on Europe's periphery is an unforgiving mirror of its identity crisis, institutional paralysis, ineffectual foreign policy, and morbid fear of migrants and multiculturalism. Looking at each of the countries and regions surrounding Europe, from Russia and Turkey to the Western Balkans and North Africa, Tassinari unravels the challenges facing the EU, weighs the record of its policies, and explains how both can be traced back to Europe's inherent insecurity. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, he argues that gradual and diversified forms of integration with its many neighbors is Europe's best alternative to a progressive, but inexorable fragmentation of the EU. The ability to meet this challenge will not only test Europe's unfulfilled global aspirations, it will be crucial to its very survival.

"The most daunting threats shaping the political agenda of Europe today coalesce in the arc of countries and regions surrounding it: The Balkans and Turkey, Russia and the former Soviet Republics, North Africa and the Middle East. As Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors makes clear, the challenges facing Europe in this diverse region, the record of its policies, and its overall posture are a reflection of Europe's identity, institutions, and power." "Tassinari maintains that relations between Europe and its neighbors are influenced by the European threat perception, which affects the European power constellation, foreign policy ambitions, and the future of the European integration process in very profound ways. His thesis is supported with a variety of primary sources, data, and samples of the prevailing European discourses on each of the neighboring countries and regions." "By providing a comprehensive, yet accessible analysis of the relations between the EU and its neighbors, this book offers an unconventional reading of the present and future of European security and integration. Challenging conventional wisdom that regards issues such as immigration and energy dependence with growing apprehension, its principal conclusion is that the EU can turn its present introspection around only through deeper engagement with its neighbors. Its ability to do so will prove the litmus test to Europe's unfulfilled foreign policy aspirations. More than that, it is key to the very viability of the European Union." --Book Jacket.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security, narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region. It also offers insights into the study of regional security and the operation of threat perceptions.

An introduction to the characteristics of a neighborhood.