{"id":3714,"date":"2026-08-04T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:14:32","slug":"new-publication-by-onur-erpul-and-kemal-kirisci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/tr\/2026\/08\/new-publication-by-onur-erpul-and-kemal-kirisci\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication by Onur Erpul and Kemal Kiri\u015fci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where is the Anchor? Explaining the Endurance of the American-Turkish Partnership, 1927-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January 28, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once considered a model partnership, the American-Turkish relationship now elicits ambivalence among scholars and policymakers, calling into question the fundamental interests and assumptions that once undergirded the relationship. Critics attribute the negative trends in the relationship to geostrategic and value-based incompatibilities, but relatively few have examined both factors longitudinally across the entire relationship. This paper does not aim to provide a grand theory of American-Turkish relations. Instead, its goal is to develop a framework illustrating the vital role that strategic, ideational, and domestic political factors have played in shaping macro-level outcomes in the partnership\u2019s cohesion at various junctures. Overall, our paper identifies the positive role of foreign policy bureaucratic elites on both sides acting as an \u201cinvisible hand\u201d providing an anchor for the relationship even in the absence of other commonalities. Yet, we also observe the weakening of this hand in recent times as both countries become domestically transformed.<br><br><strong><em>Keywords<\/em><\/strong>: Turkish-US Relations, Foreign Policy, Alliance Politics, Elites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20991\/allazimuth.1621469\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20991\/allazimuth.1621469<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is the Anchor? Explaining the Endurance of the American-Turkish Partnership, 1927-2024 January 28, 2025 Once considered a model partnership, the American-Turkish relationship now elicits ambivalence among scholars and policymakers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yayinlar"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}