Civil–Military Relations and Foreign Policy: An Operational Code Analysis

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Brief Overview

How do civil–military relations shape leaders’ foreign policy beliefs and actions? This paper uses operational code analysis on Turkish leaders to test how military tutelage versus post-tutelage periods influenced their strategic orientations.

Authors

• Gizem Alioglu Cakmak, Yeditepe University

• Murat Arslan, Yeditepe University

• Huseyin Batuhan Sar, Yeditepe University

• Mustafa Furkan Durmaz, Yeditepe University