The profound transformation in the priorities of Turkey’s foreign policy and macroeconomic strategy should be read in view of tectonic shifts in the world system...

www.insightturkey.com In the January-March 2011 Issue 

Insight Turkey, Volume 13, Number 1:

• TURKEY AND AMERICA: STILL ALLIES?
• POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
• POLITICS OF TRADE AND INTEGRATION

    CONTENTS Editor’s Note Full Text Commentaries   The ‘New Turkey’ and American-Turkish Relations [Abstract] F. Stephen Larrabee, pp. 1-9 The Rise of Turkish Gaullism: Getting Turkish-American Relations Right [Abstract] Ömer Taşpınar, pp. 11-17 U.S.-Turkey Relations: Model Partnership as an ‘Empty Signifier’ [<a title="Abstract :: This commentary attempts to make a conceptual evaluation of the phrase “model partnership” as a definition of US-Turkey relations. Against the background of much debate about the “viability” or “possibility” of “model partnership,” it argues that “model partnership” as an empty signifier does not represent either the ideal or the fully accomplished state of Turkish-American relations. The current problems in the bilateral relations derive from the gradual transformation in the nature of Turkish-American relations from a hierarchical relationship into a complementary one, i.e. from a “strategic partnership” to a “model partnership.” As we are going through a structural change, “policy recommendations” alone will not suffice to re