In 2001, before the AK government came to power, Mr Davutoglu published a book, "Strategic Depth", that set out a new policy of engagement with the region.
While Erdogan's administration proceeds by grand theoretical announcements China does not explicitly vow to reconnect with a lost "strategic depth" and is not obsessed by the conceptualization of its foreign affairs.
Egypt sees Libya as an important strategic depth, relies significantly on Libyan oil imports, and has an army of workers across the border.
Author of a treatise titled "Strategic Depth," proposing a sweeping rethink of Turkish policy, Davutoglu has been a core player in Turkey's increasingly anti-Western slant since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic AK Party won power in 2002.
After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, Pakistani leaders came to consider it a requirement of "strategic depth" that Afghanistan be a reasonably stable neighbor with a compliant government.
Pakistan has historically sought to keep Afghanistan as a client, providing "strategic depth" in the event of an Indian invasion.
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He was hired by Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2002 as a foreign-policy adviser on the strength of "Strategic Depth", a book in which he proposed a neo-Ottoman policy he dubbed "zero problems with the neighbours".
They see the Taliban as a way to ensure a friendly government in Kabul, necessary for strategic depth in a war against India.
In essence, the Pakistani authorities stuck to a long-standing policy of "strategic depth" in Afghanistan as a bulwark against its enemy India, and Mr. Mehsud was a tool in that game, he said.
