Secrecy and the Study of International History: Missing Dimension in Turkish Foreign Policy

Year 2019, , 327 - 338, 01.07.2019

Egemen Bezci

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.477317

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The study of international history
largely depends on an exploitation of hitherto unexplored data. The sources of
these data could vary from national archives to private papers to
semi-structured interviews and so on. An examination of the historiography of
Turkish Foreign Policy requires the employing of a rigorous methodology to
unearth novel data to feed into current academic debates. Students of
international history should be advised of possible logistic and methodological
flaws and obstacles in the process. This article examines these logistical and
methodological obstacles to conducting archival research for historiographical
studies.

Keywords

Historiography, secrecy, diplomacy, international history, intelligence, Turkish foreign policy

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