E.G.

I decided my armchair wasn’t getting me very far in thinking about this Turkey question I’ve been posting about, so I e-mailed a Turkey expert and asked him to suggest references.  Here’s his list: 

1.  Mustafa Aydin & Cagri Erhan ed ‘Turkish-American
Relations’ (Routledge, 2004).  This is the only book
dedicated to the subject in English

2.  F Stephen Larrabee & Ian O Lesser, ‘Turkish Foreign
Policy in An Age of Uncertainty’ (Rand, 2003).  A book
basically about Turkish foreign policy and Turkey’s
geopolitics but by American think tankers who are most
familiar with the subject.

3.  William Hale, ‘Turkish Foreign Policy, 177?-2000’
(Cass, 2002?). A historical, analytical treatment by one of
the world’s top non-Turkish scholars of Turkey.

4.  Philip Robins, ‘Suits & Uniforms: Turkish Foreign
Policy Since the Cold War’ (Univ of Washington Press,
2003).  More context and process oriented in focus, but
with four policy case studies included.

5.  George Harris, ‘Troubled Alliance: Turkish-American
Problems in Historical Perspective, 1945-71′ (Hoover,
1972).  George has lived the subject for the last 30 years,
esp as part of the INR section of the State Dept.  Good on
an earlier period.

Time permitting, I hope to work through some of these between now and summertime.  If so, I’ll post about it.