Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945 —— Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics

----- 土耳其外交政策，1943 - 1945年：小国家外交与大国政治

ISBN: 9780691619095 出版年：2015 页码：391 Weisband, Edward Princeton University Press

As it became evident that the allies were winning world war ii, turkish policy-makers struggled to achieve their objectives in the shifting circumstances of wartime diplomacy. Edward weisband's detailed description of turkish foreign policy from 1943 to 1945 reveals that it was complicated by the fact that its two principal aims dictated contradictory positions. The first aim was the priority of peace over expansionism--this implied a noninterventionist policy. On the other hand, the belief that the soviet union represented the primary threat to the security of the republic often made intervention to contain russia seem necessary for national defense.