Russia and Turkey: A Roller Coaster Relationship between Securitization and Cooperation - Devrim Şahin and Ahmet SÖZEN

Understanding perceptions of Russian and Turkish foreign policy from their imperial past up to the present day constitutes a continuing puzzle for historians and policy practitioners alike. Now, because of their ambitious ideological posturing and power projections, the need to examine some of the most-discussed features of Moscow’s and Ankara’s respective approaches to foreign policy has arisen anew. What is novel and significant is to address how the emergence of the individual efforts of Russia and Turkey to secure a greater global role for themselves reflects a new modus vivendi whereby they continue cooperating, despite serious conflictual areas between them.

Keywords: East-Med Gas Forum, NATO, European Union, Energy, Security Community
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*Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Kıbrıs İlim University, Kyrenia
** Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta