Çağdaş Üngör discusses her recent articles ”A Bridge No More? Turkiye’s Geopolitical Significance in the 21st Century” in the journal Survival and ”A ’Bridge’ Pushed to the Periphery? Turkey’s Geopolitical Significance in the Asia-Pacific Century” in Turkish Studies.

The two pieces challenge the popular conception that Ankara is poised to leverage its unique geographical location to rise to greater geopolitical prominence in an emerging multipolar world order. The idea of Turkey having a crucial ”bridge” status goes back decades, but Üngör argues that Ankara in fact risks being sidelined as power and attention shift to Asia and divisions deepen between the US and China.

Çağdaş Üngör is professor of political science at Istanbul’s Marmara University, non-resident fellow at Washington’s Middle East Institute and fellow at SWP Berlin’s Center for Applied Turkey Studies.

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