Casting off the shackles of Libya's Arab-Middle Eastern foreign policy: a unique case of rapprochement with non-Arab Turkey (1970s–2011)
| Autor: | Yehudit Ronen, Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of North African Studies. 18:494-508 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9345 1362-9387 |
| Popis: | This study offers an analysis of one of the lesser-known chapters in Libya's foreign policy under the Qaddafi regime, and focuses on Libyan–Turkish relations. The study shows that during most of the era of collaboration, spanning the period of mid-1970s–2011, Libya's relations with Turkey constituted an exceptional ‘island’ of pragmatism in Libya's ocean of fanatically and ideologically driven foreign relations. Often plagued by Qaddafi's tumultuous political and ideological whims, as a result of which he often entangled his country in military adventures and conflicts, the study explores the unique nature of Tripoli–Ankara ties, notwithstanding Turkey's Western orientation and amicable links with Israel (at least during the major part of the period reviewed) – both perceived by Qaddafi as pure evil. Tripoli carefully navigated its ties with Ankara, with the exception of the crisis Qaddafi provoked in 1996 when he let his staunchly ideological support of the Kurdish cause eclipse and shake the rational Li... |
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