Turkish Geopolitical Ascendancy and the Iranian Decline (Commentary, Text and Context) (Reprint‪)‬

With the global economy struggling to re-surface from a deep and self-inflicted recession, the international geo-political order is locked in a lengthy transformation for what appears to be a multi-polar world. In this new and yet-to-be-shaped global geopolitical order, there are emerging economies that aim to leverage their rising economic power and turn them into geo-political and geo-energy assets. Turkey is one such power. Faced with a complex geo-political and energy environment in its region and an economy increasingly integrated into the global trade system, Turkey is executing on a newly developed, grand foreign policy doctrine. This doctrine is bent on harmonizing the country's power axes with a new geo-politic and geo-energy environment in its region and beyond.