Lessons Learned from the Development of Turkish IR: A View from Greece

The essay addresses an outsider's perception of the characteristics and dynamics 
of the IR field/discipline in Turkey. How may this country serve as a role model 
or, at the very least, as a source of inspiration, reflection, or evaluation of the 
field's development in other local/national settings? In this respect, Greece 
is chosen as a case study. Βy addressing and assessing Turkish self-reflection 
and the search for disciplinary identity within Turkish IR scholarship, what can 
be learned, on behalf of Greek IR scholarship, regarding both Greece's and 
Turkey's social scientific development regarding foreign affairs/policy? A major 
theme discovered is the acknowledgement of the limitations of the dependency/ 
vulnerability-centered explanations for the development of IR.