Troubled Partnership
U.S.-Turkish Relations in an Era of Global Geopolitical Change
ResearchPublished Feb 3, 2010
A strong security partnership with Turkey has been an important element of U.S. policy for the last five decades. However, in the last few years, U.S.-Turkish relations have seriously deteriorated, and today they are badly in need of repair. The arrival of a new administration in Washington presents an important opportunity to put Washington's relations with Ankara on a firmer footing. Turkey plays a critical role in four areas of increasing strategic importance to the United States: the Balkans, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf. In each of these areas, Ankara's cooperation is vital to achieving U.S. policy objectives.
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- Year: 2010
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Larrabee, F. Stephen, Troubled Partnership: U.S.-Turkish Relations in an Era of Global Geopolitical Change, RAND Corporation, MG-899-AF, 2010. As of September 10, 2026: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG899.html
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Larrabee, F. Stephen, Troubled Partnership: U.S.-Turkish Relations in an Era of Global Geopolitical Change. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2010. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG899.html.
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