This book purports to be a study of Turkish foreign policy and decision-making in thepost–World War II era. The author declares that her book “explores the contentionthat Turkish foreign policy has been greatly affected by the end of the cold war” (p. xi).She also “examines the argument that the . . . removal of the Soviet threat diminishedTurkey's strategic importance for the United States and Western Europe” and led“Turkish policymakers . . . to search for new foreign policy partners” (p. xxii).Finally, Çelik suggests that the changed environment of the post–Cold War eraentailed a shift from reliance on military power for the maintenance of national security to anemphasis on economic resources and relations.