Turkey's search for a third party role in Arab-Israeli conflicts: A neutral facilitator or a principal power mediator?

Mediterranean Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-392

  Altunisik, Meliha ^a   Cuhadar, Esra ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL CONFLICT;

TURKEY;

EID: 78649382971     PISSN: 13629395     EISSN: 17439418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2010.517101     Document Type: Article

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