DARING AND CAUTION IN TURKISH FOREIGN-POLICY

This article outlines the main features of Turkey's new post-Cold War security environment, and assesses the role of historical legacies, in stitutional structures, and normative pressures-particularly the compe ting values of ''daring'' and ''caution''-in shaping the contemporary debate about Turkey's proper foreign policy orientation. Turkey's curr ent experience demonstrates, it is argued, the importance of ideationa l and normative factors in shaping foreign policy during times of grea t uncertainty.