Troubled partnership : U.S.-Turkish relations in an era of global geopolitical change / / F. Stephen Larrabee.

• Superior document: Rand Corporation monograph series
• Author: Project Air Force (U.S.); Larrabee, F. Stephen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Project Air Force (U.S.); ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Rand Corporation monograph series.
• Physical Description: xxiii, 138 p. :; ill., map.
• Notes: "Prepared for the United States Air Force."; "RAND Project Air Force."

A strong security partnership with Turkey has been an important element of U.S. policy for the last five decades. However, in the last few years, U.S.-Turkish relations have seriously deteriorated, and today they are badly in need of repair. The arrival of a new administration in Washington presents...

Table of Contents

• The U.S.-Turkish security partnership in transition
• Iraq and the Kurdish challenge
• The broader Middle East
• Russia and Eurasia
• The European dimension
• U.S.-Turkish defense cooperation
• The domestic context
• Alternative Turkish futures
• Conclusion: Revitalizing the U.S.-Turkish relationship.