Kubilay Yado Arin Livres

Think tanks and their researchers provide much needed explanation of foreign policy. Many US Presidents have consulted think tanks for policy advise and for ideological coherence. Indeed, the American Presidents have employed experts from think tanks to serve in senior positions in their government. Policy-makers look for advise to think tanks and their scholars resulting from the decentralisation and fragmentation of the American political system. In a system based on separate branches sharing powers, and one in which policy-makers are not limited by the programs of political parties, think tanks can communicate their ideas through multiple channels to several hundred law-makers. The author examines the war of ideas waged by the neoconservative think tanks against their liberal counterparts.

The Debate on Turkey in the West is sharply divided between those who see Turkey moving away from the West and toward a more Middle Eastern and Islamic orientation and those who see Ankara's improved ties with Iran as a natural progression toward balance and diversification - and a potential boon for Turkey's US and NATO partners. American critics have seen these deepening divergences on regional issues as proof by Turkey's ruling party, AKP, of distancing the nation from its traditional close allies, the US and Israel. The author examines the question whether the new Turkish foreign policy leads to geopolitical rivalry with the United States in the Middle East. Does Turkey strive to overcome the Cold War order and the dependence on US foreign policy? Is the West „losing“ Turkey? A crucial factor here has been the determination by some neoconservatives to present Turkey's independent foreign policy as directed against US interests.

Das Buch ist wesentlich an den Zeugnissen der Geschichte des politischen Denkens orientiert, ausgehend von den klassischen Theoretikern der Antike (Platon und Aristoteles), der Renaissance (Niccolò Machiavelli), der Neuzeit (Thomas Hobbes und John Locke) und der Aufklärung (Charles de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau und Immanuel Kant) bis zu politischen Denkern der Gegenwart (Max Weber und John Rawls). Ziel der Essays ist es, die Geschichte der politischen Philosophie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in ihrem historischen Kontext und ihrem überzeitlichen Problemgehalt darzustellen.

Wie ist der Wandel von der auf kooperative Hegemonie ausgerichteten Außenpolitik der Clinton-Administration zu der auf Suprematie ausgerichteten Politik unter der Administration von Bush Jr. zu erklären? Hängt dies mit dem Einfluss von Think Tanks zusammen, die als partikulare Interessengruppen die Definition expansiver außenpolitischer Ziele zu Lasten breiterer, gesamtgesellschaftlicher Interessen manipulieren? Kubilay Yado Arin untersucht Forschung, Analysen und Politikberatung der US-amerikanischen Denkfabriken American Enterprise Institute, Progressive Policy Institute, Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations und Project for a New American Century und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die genannten Institute eine Neuordnung der aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges stammenden institutionellen Arrangements durch ihre ideologischen Parteistreitigkeiten bis zum heutigen Tage verhindern.