Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy

Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 22 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 183 - 214 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.25253/99.2020223.11 İndeks Tarihi: 09-11-2020

Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy

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The existing body of research on defense spending contains twomain theses that appear in the much-debated discourse of “guns versusbutter.” The first major theoretical issue that has dominated the field formany years concerns ‘security.’ In order to keep the country safe, primacyshould be given to security within the grand strategy. The other argumentgives priority to ‘butter,’ since defense spending is considered as a wastefuland inefficient investment. Apart from these major arguments, scholarshave also long debated the long-term political, military, economic, commercial, diplomatic, social and cultural consequences of reducing versusincreasing military spending. In light of these debates in the literature, thispaper attempts to show that the prioritization of defense spending duringthe AK Party era is specifically the outcome of a political preference—apragmatic shift in the political landscape from idealism to realism.
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APA Seren Yeşiltaş M (2020). Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. , 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
Chicago Seren Yeşiltaş Merve Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. (2020): 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
MLA Seren Yeşiltaş Merve Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. , 2020, ss.183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
AMA Seren Yeşiltaş M Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. . 2020; 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
Vancouver Seren Yeşiltaş M Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. . 2020; 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
IEEE Seren Yeşiltaş M "Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy." , ss.183 - 214, 2020. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
ISNAD Seren Yeşiltaş, Merve. "Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy". (2020), 183-214. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2020223.11
APA Seren Yeşiltaş M (2020). Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. Insight Turkey, 22(3), 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
Chicago Seren Yeşiltaş Merve Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. Insight Turkey 22, no.3 (2020): 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
MLA Seren Yeşiltaş Merve Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. Insight Turkey, vol.22, no.3, 2020, ss.183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
AMA Seren Yeşiltaş M Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. Insight Turkey. 2020; 22(3): 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
Vancouver Seren Yeşiltaş M Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy. Insight Turkey. 2020; 22(3): 183 - 214. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
IEEE Seren Yeşiltaş M "Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy." Insight Turkey, 22, ss.183 - 214, 2020. 10.25253/99.2020223.11
ISNAD Seren Yeşiltaş, Merve. "Turkey’s Military Spending Trends: A Reflection of Changes in Defense Policy". Insight Turkey 22/3 (2020), 183-214. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2020223.11