James Warhola’s research while affiliated with University of Maine and other places

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The Warming of Turkish-Russian Relations: Motives and Implications
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January 2006

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Demokratizatsiya The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization

James Warhola

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William Mitchell

Relations between Turkey and Russia have taken significant turns for the better in the past several years, culminating in the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Moscow in December 2004 and followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's reciprocal trip to Ankara in January 2005. How can we begin to account for this rather sudden warming of relations between Turkey and Russia, and what does this mean for the region? These questions can perhaps best be approached from the perspective of the larger regional landscape of issues whose substance and potential resolution are of particular importance to Turkey and Russia. These can be conveniently parsed into matters of (1) mutual economic and financial advantage, (2) regional security concerns, and (3) domestic political considerations. The present improvement of relations between Russia and Turkey has unfolded in the context of Turkey and Russia's simultaneously complex and somewhat conflicted orientations toward the Western world in general, and post-Soviet increase in U.S. global influence in particular. In any case, the improvement of Turkish-Russian relations will significantly alter the geopolitical landscape of Eurasia for the foreseeable future.

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... Territorial integrity of Georgia has been important to, and was propped up by, Turkey for various political, strategic, and historical reasons, while Russia has been an important trade and political partner to Turkey since the 2000s. 38 Third, Turkey was squeezed between the demands of its newly emerging partner, the Russian Federation, and its long-term allies, the US and NATO countries. Faced with these pressures, Turkey's initial reaction to the crisis was quite mute, though it became active later with the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform idea. ...

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Contending agendas for the Black Sea region
The Warming of Turkish-Russian Relations: Motives and Implications
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  • January 2006

Demokratizatsiya The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization