Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East [Hardcover]

This book narrates how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000s Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign policies and aligned their positions on many critical and controversial issues. By doing so, however, they increasingly isolated themselves in the Middle East as states challenging the status quo. The claim made here is that it is this isolationwhich became acute in the summer of 2013that led the two countries to forge much stronger relations.1. Prologue.-2. Introduction.-3. The 9/11 Attacks and the US Response.-4. Unsettling the Middle East: The Implications of the US Rhetoric and Action.-5. Enter Turkey and Qatar.-6. The Arab Spring Erupts, Turkey and Qatar Respond.-7. The Coup and Its Aftermath.-8. The FutureBirol Ba_kan is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, USA, and previously taught at the State University of New York-Fredonia, USA, and Qatar University. He has published in numerous academic journals such as Politics and Religion, Insight Turkey, Arab Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and International Sociology. He is the author of From Religious Empires to Secular States (2014) and the co-editor of State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States (2014).This book narrates how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000s Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign policies and aligned their positions on many critical and controversial issues. By doing so, however, they increasingly isolated themselves in the Middle East as states challenging the status quo. The claim made here is that it is this isolationwhich became acute in the summer of 2013that led the two clq